Film screening: Lerd/A Man of Integrity by Mohammad Rasoulof

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Date
Wed September 6th 2017, 6:30 - 9:00pm
Event Sponsor
Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies and the Stanford Festival of Iranian Arts
Location
Cemex Auditorium
Speaker: Mohammad Rasoulof

The film screening of Lerd/A Man of Integrity will be followed by a conversation with the film's director, Mohammad Rasoulof.

Reza (Reza Akhlaghirad), a former teacher, retreats with his wife (Soudabeh Beizaee) and young son to tend goldfish in rural Northern Iran. Once there, his rigid principles keep him from participating in the bribery system that determines access to bank loans, leaving him vulnerable to a wealthy rival farmer manipulating the legal system to get control of his land. Soon, Reza descends into an ambiguous moral swamp, with survival options boiling down to a choice between a greater and lesser evil. Writer-director and former Telluride tribute Mohammad Rasoulof, under indictment by Iranian authorities, shot the film clandestinely in rural areas, and he quietly and eloquently channels his own rage. Combining precise visual mastery, an intricately constructed plot and moving performances by Akhlaghirad and Beizaee, Rasoulof has created something infinitely more powerful than a protest work: a timeless portrait of a soul’s spiritual trials. (Iran, 2017, 117m).  - Telluride Film Festival Note. 

The film has not yet been widely screened in the US. It won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

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