'Sardie Ahan' is an artistically filmed portrait of a weightlifter as he prepares for a competition. Set to tension-building drumrolls and dramatic music, Khosrow Sinai's short film cuts back and forth between still pictorial images of past triumphs and the anticipatory build-up of a lift.
We follow a young man reflecting on his life in this thought-provoking tale of childhood. Forced to flee the devastated village of Abadan with his family at the beginning of the war, the young man returns years later. As he surveys the ruins of his former homestead, he remembers how his family...
A Season for Cinema: Fictional reality, documentary fiction
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Part 5 of the 14-part documentary series which discovers cultural roots and aesthetics of modern Iranian films and the relationship between different Persian art forms and Iranian Cinema.
