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Austin Film Society Presents Contemporary Iranian Cinema

APRIL 13-MAY 25 -- Co-sponsored by Time Warner Cable

Free admission for Austin Film Society members with current membership cards or for new members signing up by phone or at theatre on night of screening. Tickets for current AFS members may be reserved by calling AFS (322-0145) and providing membership card number and expiration date on any weekday during office hours (10am-6pm), but no later than 4pm day of screening.

Reservations may be made no earlier than 6 days before each
individual screening (e.g., Wednesday, April 7, will be the first day to reserve tickets for the Tuesday, April 13, show).
Reserved tickets may be picked up at "Will Call" table night of
screening (6-6:45pm).

Reserved tickets not claimed by 6:50pm will be made available
for sale. Remaining tickets may be purchased inside theater on night of screening (6-7pm). $4 Admission, cash only. Please check AFS website to be sure screening has not sold out.

Seating will be extremely limited at the Alamo Village, so it is highly recommended that you reserve a ticket.

Despite making some of the finest international films of the 1990s, Iranian filmmakers are still not very well known outside film festivals and major metropolitan areas. They deserve our closer attention, especially now that the Middle East is such an essential part of the American reality. Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and his family, along with other Iranian directors, have created important and beautiful works that explore profound human values and complex characters, many of whom are caught between tradition and modern values. It is through their films that we might find common ground in the problems of love, marriage, repression, depression, childhood, and the daily struggle. Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami believes that "through film we're able to see another reality that does not resemble the one being propagated by the media." All films are in Farsi with English subtitles.