Recurrence

An old man can’t find his cows. Realizing there’s no place for him in his house, he leaves, and the cows come back.

Directed by Ali Alizadeh

Director’s Bio: Ali Alizadeh is a writer, director, editor, photographer, and graphic designer from Tehran. He started his artistic career when he was a teenager with painting and photographing and then he started his filmmaking career more seriously, with film directing. he started to work as an editor and sound designer with different filmmaking teams in the production of several short films since 2008. He is a graduate of the University of Qazvin. As a filmmaker, he has made two short fiction films and one animation film, each of which has participated in several domestic and foreign festivals and won awards.

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On the Road

“…The answer might be that people, many people, have lost all their political bearings. Mapless, they do not know where they are heading. Every day people follow signs pointing to some place which is not their home but a chosen destination. Road signs, airport embarkment signs, terminal signs. Some are making their journeys for pleasure, others on business, many out of loss or despair. On arrival they come to realize they are not in the place indicated by the signs they followed. Where they now find themselves has the correct latitude, longitude, local time, currency, yet it does not have the specific gravity of the destination they chose. They are beside the place they chose to come to…” – John Berger, Ten Dispatches About Place

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