Hamid Ghavami: Runaway

Towards the end of 2007, when our fears of a military conflict between the U.S. and Iran were at their peak, Make Films Not War resolved to use images and stories to continue building a cultural bride between our two societies, even as our governments ratcheted up their language of war.

We made contact with award-winning Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi (HALF MOON, TURTLES CAN FLY, A TIME FOR DRUNKEN HORSES), and discussed how best to go about this. We decided to commission five up-and-coming Iranian filmmakers, two of them as young as 10 and 13, to produce a series of short videos on the themes of war and peace. Ghobadi's company, Tehran based MIJ Productions, co-produced.

About 'Runaway'
This experimental film follows a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war as he revisits scenes of battle, and relives the terrible losses that the war left behind. A hallucinatory rendering of the mental and emotional anguish that remains well after the battlefield has been cleared.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Iran
• United
• States
• Conflict
• Bahman
• Ghobadi
• antiwar
• culture
• Hamid
• Ghavami
• postcards
• from
• iran

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