Abolfazl Jalili retro

Overview of films

• Be Careful

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  Abolfazl Jalili | 50' | Iran | -

• Dance of Dust

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  Abolfazl Jalili | 73' | Iran | -

  A film that was made in 1992 but faced distribution problems is Jalili’s most poetic. Almost without dialogue, but filled with abstract sounds and ima

• Det Means Girl

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  Abolfazl Jalili | 85' | Iran | -

  This poetic and experimental film written and directed by Jalili focuses on the teenage Schawan, factory guard and caterer. With its innovative narrat

• Don

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  Abolfazl Jalili | 90' | Iran | -

  Jalili’s most mature film is a very social indictment, in which children earn money for their parents. Don is nine and doesn’t have a birth…

• Milad

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  Abolfazl Jalili | 104' | Iran | -

  Jalili’s first film tells the story of the young adolescent Milad, whose father, a railwayman, was arrested by the authorities for political reasons.

• Scabies

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  Abolfazl Jalili | 96' | Iran | -

  Docu-drama which was shown, then re-edited years later in 1989. It’s about a young offender, Hamed, arrested for distributing illegal tracts, who has

• Yek dastan-e vaghe’i

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  Abolfazl Jalili | 140' | Iran | -

  The director plays himself as a film-maker looking for a suitable kid to play in his next film. When the ideal boy turns out to…