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دختربس نمی‌خواست تنها باشد (Dokhtar Bas Nemikhast Tanha Bashad) [Dokhtar Bas Didn’t Want to be Alone]

Date produced: 1971

Filmmaker(s):

Naser Gholamrezayi

Description:

The story follows a little girl named “Dokhtar Bas” who catches a frog for her mother to cut open and put on her father’s infected knee injury. The next day the wound is disinfected and her father goes back to work in the wilderness. Dokhtar Bas looks at the dried up corpse of the frog and asks her mother if her father is truly healed now. Later in an attempt to revive the frog she first puts it in water, then catches another frog and like her mother cuts it open and places it on the dead frog’s corpse, tying them together. Checking the bandaged bundle the next morning she discovers two dead frogs and she asks her mother again whether her father really is completely healed now.


رویا (Roya) [Dream]

Date produced: 1973

Filmmaker(s):

Rashid Davari

Description:

The film follows a group of children living in the same alley. The garbage truck arrives every day disrupting their dreams. The sleepy children are forced to take the garbage out every time and play in the alley after the garbage are taken. The garbage truck stops coming to their alley, allowing them to finally sleep and dream for longer but also results in the neighbours throwing garbage in the alley, stopping the children from playing together.


زمستان در پیش است (Zemestan Dar Pish Ast) [Winter is Yet to Come]

Date produced: 1971

Filmmaker(s):

Naser Gholamrezayi


عروس کهنه (Arouse Kohne) [Aged Bride]

Date produced: 1972

Filmmaker(s):

Zavan Ghoukasian


Total Pages: 299