Screening of the movie "Tales" directed by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad


 Center for Persian Studies and Culture     Mar 31 2016 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Humanities Gateway 1030

Please join us on Thursday March 31st, 7-9 PM at UC Irvine's Humanities Gateway (HG) 1030 for the screening of the movie "Tales" directed by Rakhshin Bani-Etemad.

Winner of best screenplay at the 71st Venice International Film Festival, Tales revisits the characters from Rakhshan Bani-Etemad's previous films. Ending an eight-year hiatus from narrative feature filmmaking, Bani-Etemad created Tales with no budget or license from the Iranian government and employed a volunteer crew and actors. Tales weaves the stories of seven characters linked by shared struggles - social, economic and political - into a film that is both a microcosm of Iranian working-class society and an incisive, luminous portrait of human fallibility and virtue in the face of everyday challenges.

This event is presented by UC Irvine's Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture and is co-sponsored by UCI Visual Studies Program and UCI Society of Iranian Graduate Students (SIGS).

The event is free and open to the public.