Screen/Society--AMI Showcase--The Middle East in Film: "The House Is Black" (Short) + "I Am The One Who Brings Flowers To Her Grave" (Feature film)

The Middle East in Film: "The House Is Black" (Short) + "I Am The One Who Brings Flowers To Her Grave" (Feature film) / "The House Is Black" (Forough Farrokhzad, 1962, 22 min, Iran, in Persian w/ English subtitles, B&W, DVD) / Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad takes an intimate look inside a leprosy colony in Tebriz, Iran in this renowned documentary. With stories from these forgotten people accented by poetic voiceover from Farrokhzad, the film digs deep into the heart of hopelessness within the human spirit. / -- "'The House Is Black' is a powerful, unforgettable film, a documentary whose forthright and unblinking look at life in a leper colony casts light on the suffering of people living in darkness, away from society's attention."--Seul Le Cinema /Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oOCObHFx28 /"I Am The One Who Brings Flowers To Her Grave" (Hala Alabdalla, 2006, 110 min, France/Syria, in Arabic w/ English subtitles, B&W, DVD) / This is an intimate film, in black and white, written in poetry, on a road trip scouting for locations for a film that one dreams to make. It is a film in the process of being made, capturing what was lost through exile and imprisonment, gently frustrated by the possibility of what could have been in the future, unearthing latent repressions that laden the present, and ground and determine what is ahead./-- Winner of Best Documentary at the Dubai International Film Festival (2006)!