Film Night: Bandar Band
25 July 2024 6:00pm–8:00pm
Registration:
21 June 2024–24 July 2024
Join us at UQ Art Museum for a screening of films running alongside our new exhibition 'Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line'. The selected films have influenced Hoda Afshar’s artistic practice that often blurs the lines between documentary and fiction.
About the film:
Bandar Band (2020) is directed by Manijeh Hekmat, a prominent figure in political cinema in Iran. After a long time, some Iranian women singers are going to enter an unofficial competition in a coffee shop in Tehran. Pregnant Mahla along with the other members of Bandar Band, her husband and one of their closest friends, starts her journey to Tehran from a southern province just when they have lost all they had in the flood. They still keep their hopes alive, however every road they take leads to a dead-end in a flood-stricken land. They intend to go to Tehran, but they wonder if it is just another turn around a vicious circle.
This is a free film screening and will be held inside UQ Art Museum. There are limited places so please register early.
'Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line' is an Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition.
Image Credit: Still from Bandar Band, 2020, Color, 1:1.85, 5.1, 75 mins.
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