A Moment of Innocence

+ intro by director Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Nūn o Goldūn

Ingeniously revisiting an incident in the director’s own life, Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s film is one of the key Iranian films of the 1990s.

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  • Director

    Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  • With

    Mirhadi Tayebi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Ali Bakshi, Ammar Tafti Dehghani

  • Iran 1996. 78min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    U

  • English subtitles

Brilliantly traversing past and present, fact and fiction, memory and reality, Makhmalbaf’s film revisits an episode from his own life. In re-presenting it on film, he generates fascinating questions. Back in pre-revolutionary 1970s Iran, when he was 17, Makhmalbaf had stabbed a policeman and been sent to jail. Twenty years on, he and the policeman come together to create a film of the incident, the policeman overseeing the actor playing his younger self, and Makhmalbaf his. Resident in London after fleeing Iran along with his family, who also hold refugee status in Britain, Makhmalbaf recently donated a number of his family’s films to the BFI National Archive. This original 1996 release print was among them and it is in excellent condition.

James Bell

Access information

The screening on Saturday 14 June 16:00 NFT2 will include a live captioned introduction.