On 35mm!

In his dust-covered Range Rover, Mr. Badii winds up and down the rocky mountain passes in Tehran’s outskirts. He is searching for someone to perform a simple task—to come to a specified location the following morning and throw 12 spades of dirt on top of a shallow grave in which he will be lying. It is a job, in a country where religion and politics are so delicately interwoven, for which there are few eager applicants. From this deceptively simple scenario, Kiarostami creates a remarkable contemplation on the small miracles of everyday life and the elusive nature of happiness.

(Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, Persian w/ English sub, 99 min, 1997, 35mm)

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