The Apple (U)

This event has already taken place and ended on 18 Jul 2010

The strange story of an impoverished old couple in a Tehran suburb who kept their twin daughters permanently locked up at home, stirred furious debate in Iran. This unscripted re-enactment, with everyone playing themselves, opens up questions around the blurring of truth and fiction in documentary forms.

Dir. Samira Makhmalbaf Iran/France 1998 1h 26md Subtitled

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Known Unknowns film season
Part of Arnolfini's Old Media season, this season of films and videos focuses on the camera's role not only in recording events, but also in producing them. The lines between documentary and fiction, acting and being, thought and moving images, become fuzzy; suggesting that cinema has become a prosthetics for our memories, subjectivities and doubts.