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Border Cafe (Cafe Transit)

Border Cafe (Cafe Transit)

James Bridges Theater
Melnitz Hall, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095

BORDER CAFE (CAFE TRANSIT)
(Iran/France, 2005) Directed by Kambozia Partovi
A winner at last year's Fajr Film Festival, Kambozia Partovi's engaging and well-crafted film is a portrait of a young widow who takes over her husband's run-down roadside cafe on the Iranian/Turkish border. With two young children to support, the soft-spoken but strong-willed Reyhan sets about fixing the place up, and soon the small cafe and Reyhan's excellent cooking attracts a bevy of loyal customers (including an amorous Greek trucker). Meanwhile, Reyhan's meddling brother-in-law Nasser desires her for himself and will stop at nothing to shut the place down.

Producers: Amir Samavati, Behrooz Hashemian, Setareh Farsi

Screenwriter: K. Partovi

Cinematographer: Mohammed Reza Sokout

Editors: Jafar Panahi, Jacques Witta

With: Fereshtei Sadre Orafei, Parviz Parastoei, Nikolas Padapopoulos, Svieta Mikalishina.

35mm, 105 min.


Cost : $7.00

310-206-8365

www.cinema.ucla.edu




Sponsor(s): Film and Television Archive

3 Jun 06
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

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