Iran: New Voices
Focus: Abbas Kiarostami

Presented by Iran Heritage Foundation in association with The Barbican and Magic of Persia

Vali Mahlouji

"Iran's poet of the cinema" The New York Times

Geoff Andrew, film critic and Kiarostami expert introduces some the celebrated director's most poetic works, The UK premiere of Roads of Kiarostami and Five.

Roads of Kiarostami (2005)
UK premiere
32 min.
In Persian with English subtitles

Shifting between motion and stasis, the camera follows paths on still photographs and then opens up to context, questioning if context matters at all, and simultaneously showing the absolute beauty that surrounds a man on his journey.

Five (2003)
74 min.
In Persian with English Subtitles

Shot along the shores of the Caspian Sea, Five comprises a kind of abstract or emotional narrative arc, which moves evocatively from separation and solitude to community, from motion to rest, near-silence to sound and song, light to darkness and back to light again, ending on a note of rebirth and regeneration.

"An entire world is revealed to us", Kiarostami says. "It's a work that approaches poetry painting. It let me escape from the obligation of narration and of the slavery of mise en scene."

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