Performance

Bashu, the Little Stranger

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Now screening at MoMA, *Bashu, the Little Stranger* is a drama by Iranian director Bahram Beyzaie that follows a war-displaced boy taken in by a woman in Iran’s north, where language and custom mark him as an outsider. The film’s use of Gilaki as a serious, everyday language registers its attention to internal diversity. In a New York museum setting, it reads as both a story of refuge and a record of regional identities rarely centered in Iranian cinema. Its plain style lets the social tensions accumulate without rhetoric.