Friday, August 28, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Los Feliz Theatre, Los Angeles
### **ABOUT THE FILMS:** **“Journey,” 1972, Dir. Bahram Beyzaie, 33 Min, Film Movement, Iran** *In Persian with English subtitles.* The story of two kids, one of whom is looking for his parents, and the other goes along in the hopes that these imaginary parents will find him a better job. FORMAT: DCP **“Uncle Mustache”, 1970, Dir. Bahram Beyzaie, 28 Min, Film Movement, Iran** *In Persian with English subtitles.* The emergence of an emotional relationship between an old man who has been languishing in his lonely cocoon for years and children who are happy by nature. FORMAT: DCP **DOWNPOUR, 1972, Dir. Bahram Beyzaie, 129 Min, Janus Films, Iran** *In Persian with English subtitles.* With brash stylistic exuberance, this first feature from Bahram Beyzaie helped usher in the Iranian New Wave. When he takes a job as a schoolteacher in a new neighborhood, the hapless intellectual Mr. Hekmati finds that he is a fish out of water. Shot in luminous monochrome and edited with quicksilver invention, DOWNPOUR,* *which has been painstakingly restored from the only known surviving print, captures with puckish humor and great tenderness the cultural conflicts coursing through Iran at a pivotal historical moment. Restored in 2011 by Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Bahram Beyzaie. Restoration funded by Doha Film Institute. FORMAT: DCP