Short Film Grand Prix Competition
International Premiere

LESSON FROM BAM
Mashghè Bam



Alireza Ghanie

Country of production: Austria/Iran/Australia
Year: 2004
Language: Farsi
Mins: 23

Production company: NurFilm Alireza Ghanie, Franjipani Film Production, Australia & CCC Film Produktion -Vienna
Producer: Alireza Ghanie
Script: Alireza Ghanie
Cinematography: Ebrahim Jawaheri
Editing: Alireza Ghanie
Sound: Hossein Mafi
Music: Payman Yazdanian

Source: NurFilm Alireza Ghanie
Rottmayr Gasse 34
5020 Salzburg, Austria
Tel: ++43. 662. 631 689
Cell: ++43. 650. 600 4400
e-mail: ghanie110@yahoo.de


Made 40 days after the 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran killed over 68,000 people and destroyed the city’s ancient mud-brick citadel, Lesson from Bam honors the Great Citadel – a heritage that is gone, but a memory that should be kept. Director Alireza Ghanie films the children of the Old Citadel School who now attend class in the open air since most of the community’s buildings have been destroyed. The children have written compositions about their experience of the earthquake, and one by one, they read their compositions to the rest of the class…


Born in 1959 in Tehran, Iran. Alireza Ghanie moved to Austria when he was 14 years old. He received his M.A. in 1982 from the University of Music and Dramatic Art, "Mozarteum" in Salzburg.He graduated in Computer Science in 1994.He worked extensively in theatre and opera, and also as a freelance painter. He made a number of short films and wrote several screenplays. His debut feature film The Wind Game (Windspiel, 2002) has participated in a number of International film festivals. He lives and works as a freelance artist in Salzburg, Austria.

Filmography :

Lesson from Bam (2004)
The Wind Game (2002) feature film
Das (Z)weite Land (1997)
One more, one less (1995)
Hand in Hand (1994)
Trazom (1992)

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