3 Mosht Hak
Yaser Khayyer
Iran | 2014 | 29 min
Language : Persian
Subtitles : English, French
A report of birth and death in two villages of Balouchestan, Iran. A family celebrates the birth of a child and another family mourns the loss of a young boy. A deeply respectful camera looks for the essence of life and death. A masterfully constructed film, where archetypal codes and the structural principles of a society are evoked through a sensual and sharp mirroring of voices, spaces, lights.
A report of birth and death in two villages of Balouchestan, Iran. A family celebrates the birth of a child and another family mourns the loss of a young boy. Whispers, codified gestures, objects, colours and patterns. A deeply respectful camera looks for the essence of life and death, occasionally suspending the narration to focus on everyday life tasks. The unstoppable flux of life goes on everywhere, and there too we find rituals, songs, joy, death. A masterfully constructed film, where archetypal codes and the structural principles of a society are evoked through a sensual and sharp mirroring of voices, spaces and lights. A man alone walks in the desert and asks himself: what’s the purpose of coming and going, receiving life or dying? A group of children jumps into fresh water from a cliff: they seem to carry an answer.
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