Not a Carwash + Blames & Flames + Q&A - ODEON

Not a car wash

Director / Producer - Gentian Koçi

Country - Albania

Year - 2012

Duration - 49 MINS

Tirana, Albania. The campus of a pioneering film school is being eyed up greedily by corporations, supported by the state police. We follow the action over four tense days as a press conference evolves into a full blown occupation.

Blames and flames

Director - Mohammadreza Farzad

Producer - Pirooz Kalantari

Country - Iran

Year - 2011

Duration - 28 MINS

This reflective essay revisits the eve of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, when more than 130 cinemas burned down. With the closure of television stations as well, the people turned their cameras onto each other, taking centre stage in a rapidly unfolding drama.