Adelaide Film Festival 2005 | A Biennial Film Festival held in Adelaide, Australia | Films Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage (Ziarat)

Bahman Kiarostami, Iran 2004  
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As many as 3,000 Iranian pilgrims risk their lives every day to cross the Iran-Iraq border illegally to visit the holy shrine of Imam Hussein in Karbala, Iraq. Bahman Kiarostami stationed a camera in the border city of Mehran, the main crossing for the pilgrimage, to record this extraordinary phenomenon of faith. In this highly detailed, beautifully filmed documentary, the camera does not take sides. Viewers see many facets of this issue and experience a range of emotions while learning about this historic event and about Iranian culture and politics.

Director Bahman Kiarostami will be a guest of the Festival

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Meet The Filmmaker Session

Facilitated by the Australian Film Television & Radio School, there will be the opportunity to talk with Director Bahman Kiarostami (Iran) in a Q&A session in the cinema immediately following the screening of this on Monday 21 February at 12:15 PM at Mercury Cinema

When

12:15 PM Monday, 21 February
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Greater Union - Cinema 2

Ticket Price

Full price $14
Industry $12
SPU Concession $10

As Part Of

General Documentaries

About Pilgrimage

52 minutes
DV Cam

Print Source

Butimar Productions

Marjaneh Moghimi
marjaneh@butimarproductions.org

Awards

Festival des 3 Continents, Nantes 2004

Festivals

Göteborg 2005
Tribeca 2005

About the Director

Bahman Kiarostami

Bahman Kiarostami was born in Tehran in 1978 and has worked with his father Abbas on several films, for instance as editor of Ten (2002). He started his work as an assistant director in 1996 and made his first film, Morteza Momayez: Father of Iranian Contemporary Graphic Design, in the same year. Shown at international film festivals in Iran and abroad, his subsequent films have focused primarily on art and music, often touching on religious themes as well.

Filmography
Two Bows (2004)
Pilgrimage (2004)
Infidels (2003)
Shoosh (2002)
Leech (2002)
Tabaki (2001)
Noor (2001)
The Project (1998)
Journey to the Land of the Traveller (1997)
Morteza Momayez: Father of Iranian Contemporary Graphic Design (1996)