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Abadan, by Mani Haghighi
June 17, 20175:30 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
5:30 p.m.
5 euros: general tickets at the box office.
4 euros for tickets purchased online, the officially unemployed, Casa
Árabe Language Center students and Youth Card holders, with the proper
documentation. You may only receive one discount. On sale in advance at
www.casaarabe.es or the day of the screening at the Casa Árabe
headquarters, as of one hour before each film screening. Assigned seats
with tickets.
Original language version with subtitles in Spanish.
As part of the Filmadrid International Film Festival of 2017, Casa Árabe
is hosting this film screening within the series on Comedy and the
Absurd in Iranian Film.
Abadan, by Mani Haghighi (Iran, 2003, original language version with Spanish subtitles, 82 min.).
Amir has always wanted to travel to Abadan, and now that he has grown old, he has decided to make his dream come true. But first he has to deliver a package to a friend. While doing so, he vanishes.
Cast: Ehsan Amani, Farzaneh Arastoo, Dariush Asadzade, Hedieh Tehrani.
The topic of disappearances has remained present in the films by Mani Haghighi since he first began creating his fictional works, amongst which his film Abadan can be classified. Abadan is the name of a city and oil port in southern Iran. The director’s grandfather, Ebrahim Golestan, lived in the place for some time, and Haghighi’s mother, Lili Golestan, a translator and art gallery owner, grew up there. During the war against Iraq, Abadan was destroyed because of its strategic location within Iran.
Amir has always wanted to travel to Abadan, and now that he has grown old, he has decided to make his dream come true. But first he has to deliver a package to a friend. While doing so, he vanishes.
Cast: Ehsan Amani, Farzaneh Arastoo, Dariush Asadzade, Hedieh Tehrani.
The topic of disappearances has remained present in the films by Mani Haghighi since he first began creating his fictional works, amongst which his film Abadan can be classified. Abadan is the name of a city and oil port in southern Iran. The director’s grandfather, Ebrahim Golestan, lived in the place for some time, and Haghighi’s mother, Lili Golestan, a translator and art gallery owner, grew up there. During the war against Iraq, Abadan was destroyed because of its strategic location within Iran.
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