‘Special Screening - The Circle (The Dayereh) - Jafar Panahi’

Program
19:00 Vernissage Three photos from the series 'Les Nuages' (The Clouds)
20:00 SPECIAL SCREENING Où en êtes-vous, Jafar Panahi (15')
20:15 SPECIAL SCREENING The Circle (The Dayereh) – Jafar Panahi
(IR, 2000, 87’, OV, 35 mm, st NL + FR)

The ingeniously plotted The Circle unfolds as an afternoon in Tehran turns into darkest night. Episodic in nature, the film jumps from one character to another as a string of women – expectant mothers, newly released prisoners, prostitutes – cross paths and find themselves for one reason or another on the wrong side of the strictures of Iran’s theocracy. A howl of outrage at one nation’s misogyny, the film is also a tour-de-force of filmmaking as Panahi employs every method to tell his story: from elaborate camera movements to shooting in extremely low light.