September 29-October 1, 2016
Burchfield Penney Art Center

Two Sections:
“Country in Focus 2016: Iran”
“Film Future”

Public Lecture: “Rising From the Ashes: Iranian Art House Cinema” by Dr. Hamid Naficy, Northwestern University. Friday, September 30, 7 PM.

Special Guest: Noureddin Zarrinkelk, Iranian animator. Saturday, October 1, 2 PM.

Series Curator: Dr. Tanya Shilina-Conte, UB English.

Program:

Thursday, September 29

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Restored Classics

• Downpour (1972), Bahram Beyzaie
  Restored in 2011 by the World Cinema Foundation at Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata, in collaboration with Bahram Beyzaie. Restoration funding provided by the Doha Film Institute.
  Introduced by Bruce Jackson, SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Professor of American Culture, Department of English, UB

Friday, September 30

2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Documentary

• Remote Control (2015), Anonymous
• Hair (2016), Mahmoud Ghaffari. Courtesy of Mahmoud Ghaffari.
  Introduced by Nadia Shahram, Western New York Attorney Activist and Writer, Head of The Advancement of Moslem Women

7:00 pm – 8:15 pm Public Lecture

• “Rising From the Ashes: Iranian Art House Cinema,” Hamid Naficy, Scholar of Iranian cinema, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication, Northwestern University

8:30pm – 10:30 pm Women Filmmakers

• Tales (2014), Rakhshan Bani-E’temad.
  Followed by a conversation with Hamid Naficy

Saturday, October 1

2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Animation and a Special Tribute to Abbas Kiarostami

• Roads of Kiarostami (2005), Abbas Kiarostami. Special thanks to Ahmad Kiarostami for arranging this screening.
• Animation Shorts (1970-2011), Noureddin Zarrinkelk. Courtesy of Noureddin Zarrinkelk.
  Followed by a conversation with animator and graphic illustrator Noureddin Zarrinkelk

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm New Voices/Renewed Visions

• Tenant (2015), Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Courtesy of the Makhmalbaf House
• 316 (2014), Payman Haghani.
  Introduced by Laurence Shine, Lecturer at Buffalo State College, 2016 NY State Chancellor’s Award in Teaching

8:00 pm -10:00 pm Film Future (presented separately from “Country in Focus: Iran”)

• Notes on Blindness: A VR Journey Into the World Beyond Sight, trailer
• Notes on Blindness (2016), Peter Middleton and James Spinney.
  Introduced by Michael Faust, Film Editor, The Public

The riverrun Global Film Series aspires to create a dialogue between local community and institutions of higher education in Buffalo through a selection of films that provide a better understanding of our present existence in the globalized networked world.

The series is free and open to the public.

Further information at:

https://globalfilmseries.wordpress.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/737364389734860/

https://www.buffalo.edu/cas/english/news-events/upcoming_events/global-film-series.html

https://www.burchfieldpenney.org/events/event:09-29-2016-12-00am-riverrun-global-film-series-iran/

https://www.burchfieldpenney.org/events/event:09-30-2016-12-00am-riverrun-global-film-series-iran-classics/

https://www.burchfieldpenney.org/events/event:10-01-2016-12-00am-riverrun-global-film-series-iran/

The riverrun Global Film Series is produced by riverrun, with support from the UB Department of English, Buffalo State English, James Agee Chair in American Culture, SUNY Distinguished Professor Bruce Jackson, and an Action Grant from the New York Council for the Humanities. Coordinating board: UB Lecturer Dr. Tanya Shilina-Conte, UB SUNY Distinguished Professor Cristanne Miller, UB Associate Professor William Solomon, President of riverrun Patrick Martin, and Buffalo State Lecturer Laurence Shine.