Evento

Bezaies selected films and Exploring Humanities through the Persian culture.

Bahram Bayzaie is an Iranian film director, theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, film editor, producer, and researcher. Bayzaie employs many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue, references to traditional Persian art and culture and allegorical storytelling often dealing with political and philosophical issues. He is known as the most intellectual and conspicuous author in Iranian performing arts. The main theme of his works is the history and crisis of identity which is related to Iranian cultural and mythical symbols and paradigms. Bayzaie has made significant contribution to the development of the theater and cinema of Iran and is considered as Irans most prominent screenwriter in terms of dramatic integrity of his works, many of which have been made into films. However, despite the popularity of his films and his substantial knowledge of the arts, the Government of Iran has never supported his career, neither before nor after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Even after some 20 years, several of his films have never received a screening permit in Iran.

We will be showing the following three Beyzaie films: Bashu (The Little Stranger,) Travelers, and the Death of Yazdgerd. Each film will be in Farsi with English subtitles. For more information on these films, or the Epic Players production of the Four Boxes, please visit www.epicplayers.com.