The Apple Day (Rooz-e sib)
The father of first-grader Mehdi is an apple seller in Tehran. Mehdi’s schoolteacher asks the students to bring objects beginning with each letter of the alphabet to class, and Medhi is assigned 30 apples. But when his father’s truck is stolen, the family is thrown into despair, and circumstances require desperate measures. With almost documentary realism, The Apple Day succeeds in magically transforming a very particular story into one with universal symbolism.
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The Apple Day (Rooz-e sib)
Directed by Mahmoud Ghaffari
(Iran, 2022, 80 minutes, in Persian and Azerbaijani with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater