BASHU THE LITTLE STRANGER

A film by Bahram BEYZAIE

1985 / drama / original title : Bashu Gharibeh Kouchak / 120’ / Color / status : completed / long feature-film / International collections

After his family is killed in a bombing, young Bashu flees southern Iran alone and arrives in a remote northern village. Unable to speak the local language and shunned as a little stranger, he is taken in by a mother of two whose husband is away. A fragile bond slowly begins to grow between them.

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