UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema: Black Rabbit, White Rabbit (2025)

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Tajikistan/United Arab Emirates, 2025

Tajikistan's submission to the Oscars for Best International Feature Film, Black Rabbit, White Rabbit finds writer-director Shahram Mokri working at the top of his cinematic game. On a film set for the remake of a classic Iranian film, the crew’s armorer worries that a prop gun may not be what it seems and a mysterious young woman arrives to demand an audition. Meanwhile, at a well-appointed villa, a woman recovering from a car accident discovers she may be the target of a M**der plot. In Mokri’s inimitable style, long camera takes and elliptical editing blur time and space, visions and reality, history and fiction.

DCP, color, in Tajik, Persian and Russian with English subtitles, 139 min. Director: Shahram Mokri. Screenwriters: Shahram Mokri, Nasim Ahmadpour. With: Babak Karimi, Hasti Mohammaï, Kibriyo Dilyobova.

Preceded by

Farhang Short Film Festival 3rd prize winner

Iran, 2021

A Kurdish city in western Iran, Sardasht was the target of a chemical weapons attack in 1987. Director Pejman Alipour captures the moment the city’s peaceful calm was shattered in this powerful, watercolor-style animated short.

DCP, color, in Persian with English subtitles, 13 min. Director/Screenwriter: Pejman Alipour.

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Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States

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