1986. Dir: Bahram Bayzai.
Context:
The Film:
Bashu is a young boy from Southern Iran, close to the Iraqi border. Indeed he does not speak Persian but a dialect of Iraqi Arabic. His mother and sister are killed by a bomb during the Iran-Iraq war (glimpsed in brief flashback, and in the apparitions he - and perhaps even other characters- seems to see throughout the film). After surviving this he escapes on a truck, which takes him all the way to Northern Iran, somewhere around the Mazandaran province by the Caspian sea.
Bashu is completely bewildered in the jungles of Mazandaran. He hears the sound of an explosion and runs away in fear, thinking that these are the Iraqi bombers attacking, even though the sound has come from dynamite being used in the construction of a tunnel. He flees, bewildered and confused, through the rice paddies and woods, having no clue where in the world he has landed, for he was asleep when the truck left and he has no indication that he is even in Iran.
Reception:
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