A blind 10-year-old living with his mother in a small Tajikistan village, Khorshid earns money tuning musical instruments, while Nadereh — the beautiful protege of the instrument maker for whom Khorshid works — acts as his eyes, fetching him every day at the bus stop and leading him through the streets. About to lose his job and home, Khorshid creates a world where he can be happy — where hypnotic sounds and the music of the world shows him how to experience life.
A hypnotic symphony of visual and aural rhythms from one of Iran’s greatest filmmakers — here in the “poetic” phase of his career, replete with ecstactic spiritual symbolism and strains of Beethoven. Despite being virtually plotless (or because of it) the film has been banned in Iran since 1998.
Radiantly sensuous
— New York Times
A flip-book of gorgeous, lyrical images
— San Francisco Examiner
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Tahmineh Normatova, Nadereh Abdelahyeva, Goibibi Ziadolahyeva, Araz M. Shirmohamadi
Iran
1998
In Farsi with English subtitles
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Indigenous & Community Access
Credits
Screenwriter
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Cinematography
Ebrahim Ghafori
Editor
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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