- Description:
- BluRay - Zone A. viewing copy. 2 videodiscs of 2.
24 fps
Titles
+ Gabbeh
- Director:
- Makhmalbaf, Mohsen
- Production Co:
- MK2 Productions, Sanaye Dasti
- Running Time:
- Feature. 73 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Iran, France
- Year:
- 1996
- Language:
- Persian with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Drama, Mystery, Romance
- Notes:
- **DISC ONE**
In this Iranian romantic fantasy, an elderly married couple (Hossein Moharami, Roghieh Moharami) head to the river to wash their gabbeh, a traditional Persian carpet with a colorful illustration of a young woman woven into it. Suddenly, the figure in the design (Shaghayegh Djodat) springs miraculously to life, declares herself to be called Gabbeh, and then spins a story about her history, her family and the man she loved but was forbidden to marry.
Disc includes optional audio commentary by critic Godfrey Cheshire.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Silence, The
- Director:
- Makhmalbaf, Mohsen
- Production Co:
- Makhmalbaf Productions, MK2 Productions
- Running Time:
- Feature. 76 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Iran, Tajikistan, France
- Year:
- 1998
- Language:
- Persian, Tajik, Russian with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Drama, Music
- Notes:
- **DISC ONE**
A young blind boy in a small Iranian town tunes musical instruments in order to support his mother.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Gardener, The
- Director:
- Makhmalbaf, Mohsen
- Production Co:
- Korean Film Council, Makhmalbaf Film House
- Running Time:
- Feature. 86 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- South Korea, Israel, Iran, United Kingdom
- Year:
- 2012
- Language:
- Persian, English, Tok Pisin with English Subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Drama
- Notes:
- **DISC TWO**
The Gardener is a surreal film made using documentary-style techniques via the cameras of father and son (the Makhmalbafs) who go to Israel to learn about a religion (Baha'i faith) that they don't know much due to its taboo status in the country of both the filmmaker and the faith's birth - Iran.
+ Gabbeh [US Trailer]
- Production Co:
- New Yorker Films
- Running Time:
- Trailer. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1996
- Language:
- English and Persian
- Genre:
- Trailer
- Notes:
- **DISC ONE**
Original US trailer for Gabbeh.
+ Gabbeh [French Trailer]
- Running Time:
- Trailer. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1996
- Language:
- Persian, French with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Trailer
- Notes:
- **DISC ONE**
+ Silence, The [French Trailer]
- Running Time:
- Trailer. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1998
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Trailer
- Notes:
- **DISC ONE**
+ Poetry in Motion: An Interview with Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Production Co:
- Arrow Films
- Running Time:
- Feature. 61 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Year:
- 2018
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Interview
- Notes:
- An in-depth conversation between the Iranian auteur and film critic Jonathan Romney, newly produced for this edition.
+ Mohsen with Closed Eyes [Interview]
- Running Time:
- Short. 17 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Iran, France
- Year:
- 1998
- Language:
- Persian, French, English with English subtitles
- Notes:
- **DISC TWO**
An imaginatively filmed archival interview with Makhmalbaf on The Silence.
+ Gardener, The [Original Trailer]
- Running Time:
- Trailer. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- South Korea, Iran, Israel, United Kingdom
- Year:
- 2012
- Language:
- English, Persian with English, Persian subtitles
- Genre:
- Trailer