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Bashu, The Little Stranger
(Bashur: Gharibeh-ye Kuchak)

Screening on Film
Directed by Bahram Beizai.
With Adnan Afravian, Susan Taslimi.
Iran, 1986, 35mm, color, 120 min.
Farsi with English subtitles.

Described by its director as a film “about displacement and relocation,” Bashu follows the plight of its title character, a boy of ten, as he flees the air raid that destroys his family’s home. Heading north, Bashu ends up in the care of a strong-willed farm woman who, in giving him a home, helps him understand a new form of family. Because of its humanist, anti-war sentiments, Bashu was not shown in Iran until 1989.

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