Join art historian and documentarian Hamed Yousefi for a screening and discussion of three classic Iranian documentaries: The House is Black, Recording the Truth, and The Night it Rained.

The House is Black (1963), by the important poet and feminist Forugh Farrokzhad, documents life and suffering in a leper colony. It is a crucial film and catalyst for the Iranian new wave. Recording the Truth (1991), by photojournalist Kaveh Golestan, consists of a series of interviews with journalists and thinkers in and out of Iran. The Night it Rained (1968) is a short creative documentary movie, directed by Kāmrān Shīrdil in 1968, and inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950). The film is based on the real story of a villager from Gurgān who rescued a train from derailing on a rainy night.