DocFortnight Screenings at MOMA - Tehran Has No More Pomegranates

Film screening, followed by Q&A with Director Massoud Bakhshi.

Tehran Has No More Pomegranates marks the arrival of a new auteur in Iranian cinema – Massoud Bakhshi. It is part of that rare breed: a collage ‘ciné poem’ of a great city metropolis. Like its spiritual brethren Berlin: Symphony of a City and Man with a Movie Camera, Pomegranates is at once suffused with a dizzying array of photographs and never before seen archive film from the past century brought together with a witty voiceover and a pulsating musical score by Mohsen Namjoo. Shot over five years and deploying a range of experimental filmic devices, it captures with humour and razor-sharp observation the transformation of Tehran from rural village to city of dreams.

"An imaginative and engaging history of Tehran that uses a petulant barbed humor to deliver a steady stream of irony about this drastically transformed society." –Variety

Established in 2001, MoMA’s annual two-week showcase of recent nonfiction film and video takes place each February.

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