Absence (2021)

10899 Wilshire Boulevard,Los Angeles CA 90024

30 April, 2022

Description

UCLA Film & Television Archive presents free screenings at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum. Please review our COVID-19 protocols and admission policies. ------------------- North American premiere! AbsenceIran, 2021 At a crossroads in his life, a middle-aged son journeys from Tehran to Prague to trace his father’s path through the tumultuous history of his own times only to find himself even more unmoored in the present. In his third feature as writer-director and star, Ali Mosaffa brings a wounded intensity to Rouzbeh on his quest to better understand his father, a communist intellectual who started a new life in Eastern Europe in the wake of the 1953 coup. Every clue he tracks down, however, deepens the mystery surrounding the man he thought he knew. Behind the camera, Mosaffa, mixes family drama and political history with the air of a cold war thriller. Short note: In his third feature as writer-director and star, Ali Mosaffa mixes family drama and political history with the air of a cold war thriller as a middle-aged son journeys from Tehran to Prague to better understand his father, a communist intellectual who started a new life in Eastern Europe in the wake of the 1953 coup. DCP, color, 100 min. Director: Ali Mosaffa. Screenwriter: Ali Mosaffa. With: Ali Mosaffa, Zuzana Stivínová, Magdalena Borová, Petra Nesvačilová, Zuzana Kronerová.