TEHRAN – The cinematheque of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art is scheduled to screen seven French films in a six-day program that will start tomorrow.

“Zero for Conduct” (1933) by Jean Vigo, “Naked Childhood” (1968) by Maurice Pialat, “The 400 Blows” (1959) by Francois Truffaut and “Jacquot de Nantes” (1991) by Agnes Varda are among the films.

“Mouchette” (1967) by Robert Bresson, “Chocolate” (1988) by Claire Denis and “To Be and to Have” (2002) by Nicolas Philibert will also go on screen during the program.

The screenings will be followed by review sessions by French critic, historian of cinema and former chief editor of Cahiers du Cinemas Jean-Michel Frodon.

The films’ plots are mostly about children. Therefore, the organizers of the program plan to make a comparison between French cinema and Iranian films by screening the films along with Abbas Kiarostami’s “Where Is the Friend’s Home”.

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