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Work of Nature-through the Seasons

Date produced: 1963

Filmmaker(s):

J. Ira Laird

Description:

"With the melting of the winter's ice and snow, waterfowl, animals, insects and flowers begin to awaken. Through migration, nesting, family rearing and training, the seasons pass. As the last of the fall colors are gradually covered with ice and snow, the migration reverses, it is winter again, and the cycle closes as it began. This film was awarded the Dick Bird Nature Trophy" PSA Journal, Oct. 1963, 42.


چه پرستاره بود شبم (Che Por Setare Boud Shabam) [How Full of Stars Was My Night]

Date produced: 1975

Filmmaker(s):

Naser Gholamrezayi

Description:

The film follows a blind young man in Lorestan who spends his summer alone in his village while everyone else has moved under the mountain away from the heat. He waits for cars next to the road in hopes that they will give him money. While trying to find a car that passed him one day he finds a water stream by accident and the calmness of its environment makes him seek refuge there every day. But the seasons change and after the first rain, the small stream turns into a big body of water and the young man is left with nowhere to bring him happiness every day.


Total Pages: 6