Black Rabbit, White Rabbit

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Screening 1 of 2

Where the Winds Die

Year: 2021
Country: Iran
Language: Persian with English subtitles
Runtime: 13 min.
Digital. Color.

Farhang Short Film Festival 3rd prize winner

A Kurdish city in western Iran, Sardasht was the target of a chemical weapons attack in 1987. Director Pejman Alipour captures the moment the city’s peaceful calm was shattered in this powerful, watercolor-style animated short.

DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Pejman Alipour.

Screening 2 of 2

Black Rabbit, White Rabbit

Year: 2025
Country: Tajikistan/United Arab Emirates
Language: Tajik, Persian and Russian with English subtitles
Runtime: 139 min.
Digital. Color.

Tajikistan's submission to the Oscars for Best International Feature Film, Black Rabbit, White Rabbit finds writer-director Shahram Mokri working at the top of his cinematic game. On a film set for the remake of a classic Iranian film, the crew’s armorer worries that a prop gun may not be what it seems and a mysterious young woman arrives to demand an audition. Meanwhile, at a well-appointed villa, a woman recovering from a car accident discovers she may be the target of a murder plot. In Mokri’s inimitable style, long camera takes and elliptical editing blur time and space, visions and reality, history and fiction.

DCP. Director: Shahram Mokri. Screenwriters: Shahram Mokri, Nasim Ahmadpour. With: Babak Karimi, Hasti Mohammaï, Kibriyo Dilyobova.