Restored

UK Premiere of 4K Restoration: Bashu, the Little Stranger

+ intro by film curator Ehsan Khoshbakht

Bashu, Gharibeh-ye Kuchak

The bond between an orphan and a strong, independent woman who defies tradition and authority lies at the heart of this drama by a filmmaker consistently censored by the theocratic regime of Iran.

  • Director

    Bahram Beyzaie

  • With

    Adnan Afravian, Susan Taslimi, Parviz Poorhosseini

  • Iran 1986. 120min

  • Digital 4K (restoration)

  • English subtitles

A boy who lost everything during the Iran-Iraq war flees his war-torn village in southern Iran by hiding in the back of a truck. He reaches a verdant farmland in the north and, despite struggling to be accepted for his darker skin and unintelligible dialect, he attempts to find a family and a new home. A quietly poignant story of displacement and unspoken wounds, this is one of the finest examples of Beyzaie’s mythical realism.

Contains scenes of racism.

Restoration in 4K at Roashana Studios with the support of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (KANOON). Presented by mk2 Films.

This screening is dedicated to the memory of Bahram Beyzaie, who died last December.