24 Frames

Note: 24 Frames is also screening on May 13 with Ahmad Kiarostami in person.

"...like just about all of Kiarostami’s work, it thrives in the rift between dreams and waking life, between artifice and reality; it movingly illustrates how cinema’s true power is not to identify that divide, but rather to erase it." - IndieWire

Los Angeles Premiere!

24 Frames  (Iran, 2017)

Director Abbas Kiarostami’s final film, completed after his death under the supervision of his son Ahmad, is structured as a series of two dozen, beautifully composed, black-and-white still images—the frames of the title—that Kiarostami brings to animated life. Wintry scenes predominate with animals—birds, cows, sheep, a cat—the only living presence found throughout.  Captivating and curious, it invites meditation, on the nature of the moving image, the transformative power of art, and the legacy of a life spent deeply, movingly engaged with both.

DCP, color, in Persian with English subtitles, 114 min.  Director: Abbas Kiarostami.