Description
Tickets: ffi2023.eventive.org/films
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo9Tswys4So
As part of an alphabet-learning exercise, young Mahdi’s first-grade teacher asks him to bring in apples for all his classmates, which should be easy because his father is an apple-selling street vendor. But as the date approaches, the van Mahdi’s father uses to sell apples is stolen, throwing the family into economic uncertainty. Mahdi, meanwhile, is determined to gather up enough apples for his class any way he can. A stylistic throwback to the neorealist Iranian cinema that captured the world’s attention in the 1990s, The Apple Day is a deceptively simple story with layers of meaning underneath. (Dir.: Mahmoud Ghaffari, Iran, 2022, 97 min., DCP, Persian and Azerbaijani with English subtitles)
Image courtesy of Eli Image
Cost
Free
