LASTING BREATHS
Original language title: NAFAS-HAYE MANDEGAR

Country of production: Iran
Year: 2001
Language: Farsi
28 mins.

Twenty years ago, Kazem Sadeghi was wounded in a chemical warfare attack during the Iran-Iraq war. He is the last surviving member of his group; all his comrades died during the war. We see him on his deathbed - a wounded, forgotten soldier in a country in transformation.

Director: Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
Script: Revayat Fat'h Cultural Institute
Cinematography: Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
Editing: Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
Source:
Mohammad Atebbai
Iranian Independents
P.O. Box 15875-4769
15336 Tehran, Iran
atebbai@intelirnet.net

Ebrahim Asgharzadeh was born in 1969 in Mash'had, Iran. He is a graduate of Tehran's Art University, and has been working in the film industry since 1987. Since 1991, he has made films in Bosnia, India, the Persian Gulf, Kashmir, France, and Lebanon as well as Iran.

Wednesday, March 26
7pm
Gallery Theatre
Screening with CAPTIVE, WAITING... and THAT IS LIFE

FILMS ABOUT IRAQ