Films Week of Thursday, January 16, 2025-Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Notre-Dame Cathedral: An Immersive Experience Through January 26, 2025
To celebrate the December public reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral after its intense five-year restoration, this installation brings to life a virtual, three-dimensional model of the architectural …
24 Jan Fri / 2025
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The Stranger and the Fog (Gharibeh Va Meh)
7 p.m.—9:30 p.m.Iranian New Wave director Bahram Beyzaie's visually ravishing masterwork—banned for decades after the Iranian revolution—is set around the northern coast of Iran, where a boat drifts onto the shore of a small village.
25 Jan Sat / 2025
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Danaye anjir-e moabad)
7 p.m.—10 p.m.Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof was facing eight years in prison for creating films that criticized the government, before his narrow escape to exile in Europe. Shot entirely in secret, Rasoulof’s award-winning thriller centers on a family thrust into the public eye when one of them is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran.
26 Jan Sun / 2025
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6 A.M. (Sa’ate 6 Sobh)
2 p.m.—3:30 p.m.Sara lives in Tehran and has been accepted by a doctoral program in philosophy at a Canadian university. She has a 6 a.m. flight to catch, but her friends have planned one last party before she leaves Iran. What follows is a tense social drama depicting a group of people celebrating their friend’s success while the guest of honor worries about her early flight the next day.
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Universal Language (Une langue universelle)
5 p.m.—6:30 p.m.Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin and Iranian writers Ila Firouzabadi and Pirouz Nemati won the inaugural Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award at Cannes for this absurdist comedy that variously evokes the films of Abbas Kiarostami, Wes Anderson, and Guy Maddin.
