MIT Muslim Students' Association Present

Summer Movie Night

THURSDAY, July 23, 1998
Building 2- Room 105
Refreshments Are Served at 8:30 PM and Movie Begins at 8:45 PM
Admission is FREE!!!

LIFE and NOTHING MORE ...

Photo [Life and Nothing More ...]

Foreign Film: IRAN (1992)

Director and Screenplay: Abbas Kiarostami
Editor: Changiz Sayad
Cinematography: Homayun Pievar
Cast: Farhad Kheradmand, Puya Pievar, and the people of the villages of Rudbar and Rostamabad, Northern Iran.

Winner:

`` ... in many ways the most beautiful and powerful Iranian film I've seen.'' --- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

Farsi/Persian Dialogue with English Subtitles. Color. 91 Minutes.

Life and Nothing More ... is Part II of an unforgettable trilogy, along with Where is the Friend's Home? and Through the Olive Trees, set in northern Iran. The film investigates the aftermath of a devastating 1990 earthquake which killed some 50,000 people in northern Iran. This region provided the setting for Abbas Kiarostami's award-winning Where is the Friend's Home?

Kiarostami's search for the two young actors who played central roles in that film becomes the dramatic source of Life and Nothing More ... as a father and son travel to Quoker, the hometown of the two boys, and along the way meet earthquake survivors who desperately and valiantly work to reconstruct their lives.

This event is co-sponsored by the MIT Graduate Student Council. It is open to the MIT community and other Boston-area university groups who have been invited by the MIT Muslim Students' Association. You may contact us at msa-ec@mit.edu.