Poster designed by Giselle Monzon |
A film by Ehsan Khoshbakht
Screen Scotland and the BFI Doc Society Fund present a Bofa production
Produced by Mary Bell and Adam Dawtrey
80 mins, in English and Persian, with English subtitles.
trailer
After the Iranian Revolution, a movie collector in Tehran hid thousands of films to prevent their destruction by the new Islamic regime. Despite arrest and torture, he refused to give up his secret. His story of resistance and obsession is told by the boy who became his partner in crime, recalled years later from exile in London.
Ahmad Jorghanian in Celluloid Underground |
Inquiries: adam.dawtrey at btinternet.com
Festivals:
London BFI UK
Morelia IFF Mexico
Viennale IFF Austria
Mumbai IFF India
Cambridge UK
Leeds UK
LEFFEST Portugal
Black Movie Switzerland
Chicago's Festival of Films from Iran. Gene Siskel Film Center USA
It's all True Brazil
Midnight Sun Film Festival Finland
IFFT Thrissur India
San Diego Asian Film Festival USA
Documenta Madrid Spain
Borderlines UK
Il Cinema Ritrovato Italy
Dokufest Kosovo Kosovo
Cinema De vlugt Netherlands
Makedox Macedonia
Cinema Iran Germany
L'Étrange Festival France
Celluloid Underground offers a poignant tribute to the resilience of the human spirit. Director Khoshbakht deftly weaves his own story with that of Ahmad Jorghanian to craft a moving portrait of two underground cinephiles for whom films provided solace against oppression. Though their lives were forever impacted by censorship, their unbendable devotion succeeded in preserving cinema as a vessel for cultural expression and communal joy. – Arash Nahandian
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