FILM

Rice University - Rice Cinema, Houston presents The 16th Annual Iranian Film Festival.  The popular annual showcase of the best in Iranian cinema returns.  Additional screenings  held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston January 30 through February 1.

Schedule of Screenings:

Friday, February 6
8pm
The Banana Skin
Director - Ali Atshani 
An engaging comedy about death and the afterlife. A workaholic encounter ghosts and finds them of some use in his everyday life.

Saturday, February 8
8pm
7 Blind Women Filmmakers
Various Directors
A dream inspired director, Mohammed Shirvani, organized a year-long filmmaking workshop for blind women. The project culminated in the remarkable short films.

Sunday, February 8
8pm
Over There (Aan Ja)
Director - Abdolreza Kahani
Love and a green card don't mix in this wry drama, but newly divorced Payman is about to discover that green of the pocket-folding kind could soothe a lot of headaches. OVER THERE dives into the world of Tehran twenty-somethings, where relationships are born and die in the course of electronic intrigues via cell phone and laptop.

Pictured:  still from Over There (Aan Ja) .