FRI AUG 28, 2026 3:15 PM "Journey" / "Uncle Mustache" / DOWNPOUR $10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission) Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee. Los Feliz 3 | Co-presented by the Farhang Foundation and PARS Equality Center ‘Bahram Beyzaie: An American Cinematheque Tribute’
ABOUT THE FILMS: “Journey,” 1972, Dir. Bahram Beyzaie, 33 Min, Film Movement, Iran In Persian with English subtitles. The story of two kids, one of whom is looking for his parents, and the other goes along in the hopes that these imaginary parents will find him a better job. FORMAT: DCP “Uncle Mustache”, 1970, Dir. Bahram Beyzaie, 28 Min, Film Movement, Iran In Persian with English subtitles. The emergence of an emotional relationship between an old man who has been languishing in his lonely cocoon for years and children who are happy by nature. FORMAT: DCP DOWNPOUR, 1972, Dir. Bahram Beyzaie, 129 Min, Janus Films, Iran In Persian with English subtitles. With brash stylistic exuberance, this first feature from Bahram Beyzaie helped usher in the Iranian New Wave. When he takes a job as a schoolteacher in a new neighborhood, the hapless intellectual Mr. Hekmati finds that he is a fish out of water. Shot in luminous monochrome and edited with quicksilver invention, DOWNPOUR, which has been painstakingly restored from the only known surviving print, captures with puckish humor and great tenderness the cultural conflicts coursing through Iran at a pivotal historical moment. Restored in 2011 by Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Bahram Beyzaie. Restoration funded by Doha Film Institute. FORMAT: DCP