Bahram Beyzai’s (Downpour, Stranger and the Fog) Bashu, the Little Stranger was voted “Best Iranian Film of all time” in November 1999 by the Persian movie magazine Picture World poll of 150 Iranian critics and professionals. During the Iran-Iraq War. Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Scared, he sneaks into a truck that is leaving the area. He gets off the truck in the Northern part of the country, where everything from landscape to language is different. He meets Naii, who is trying to raise her two young children on a farm, while her husband is away. Despite cultural differences, and the fact that they do not speak the same language, Bashu and Naii slowly form a strong bond. Subtitles. 120 min. “A vital cinematic masterpiece. A reminder that art at any time, in any place, awakens human consciousness and shows us humane paths through friendship, coexistence, and peace. The new restoration felt like a discovery, not a rediscovery, as if seeing such a masterpiece for the first time.” Jafar Panahi