7PM: IRANIAN CINEMA - Mohsen Makhmalbaf has made more than 20 feature films (e,g. “Kandahar”) and won some 50 awards. SALAAM CINEMA (1995, 75 min) was originally intended by Makhmalbaf as a film to celebrate the 100th anniversary of cinema. However, when five thousand people turned up in response to a newspaper advertisement he had placed in order to find 100 actors, he adapted his plans.
Dozens of men and women were interviewed in front of the camera, and their statements, which are by turns funny and touching, reveal the reality of life in Iran. The film blends fiction and documentary, and through this innovative process, the director enables the audience to see and understand intellectuals, students, children and women, who would not be normally heard or seen. A seminal film for Makhmalbaf and a key film for Iran's new cinema… Makhmalbaf left Iran in 2005 shortly after the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and has lived in Paris since the events of the 2009 Iranian presidential election.
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