N/N A Moment of Innocence - True/False Film Fest

N/N A Moment of Innocence

In 1974, when Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf was a 17-year-old anti-Shah militant, he stabbed a policeman at a rally. The police officer suffered serious injuries, and Makhmalbaf found himself in prison for six years. Many years later, after Makhmalbaf had found fame as a director, he ran into the same police officer during a film shoot, and they agreed to collaborate on a film. In the brilliantly structured A Moment of Innocence, we witness the two men working together to recreate this incident. As they go about this process, we discover that the men have very different memories of what transpired on that pivotal day. (CB) Screens for free as a part of the Neither/Nor Film Series. Neither/Nor is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Runtime: 1:18
Fest Year: 2014
Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf revisits a haunting episode from his past by recreating it in this devastating, reflexive masterpiece from 1996. Screens for free as a part of the Neither/Nor Film Series.