IRO (HERE)
Dir. Hadi Mohaghegh, 2018.
Iran. 82 min.
In Persian with English subtitles

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Born in Dehdasht in the southwest of Iran in 1979, director Hadi Mohaghegh spent his first twenty years of life in nomadic tribes of southwest Iran. He studied Automobile Mechanics and began his artistic career in 1990 as a theater actor and director, and in 2000 for television as an actor, designer and assistant director. In 2010, he started making films for television. In 2013, he made his first feature film BARDOU (2013) followed by IMMORTAL (2015).

In IRO (2018), his third feature film, an elderly man leading an isolated life in a mountainous region is powerless to stop the execution of his son. Unable to change fate, he prepares for the burial, and takes his orphaned grandson into his home. IRO is a quiet but haunting film, and a tender portrait of grief and resilience in tune with the rhythms of rural life. Spectacle is proud to present IRO’s North American premiere.