Calgary Cinematheque

This Thursday experience Chess of the Wind, a film that was almost lost forever, on the big screen.

Screened just once in Iran before the 1979 revolution, the film was swiftly banned and then thought to be lost for decades, with all prints and negatives presumed destroyed. In 2014 the director’s children found the original negative in a Tehran junk shop. After a major restoration, it returned in 2020 to widespread critical acclaim.

🎬: Chess of the Wind (1976)
🎟️: www.calgarycinema.org/events/ChessoftheWind
📅: July 23 @ 7 PM
📍: Globe Cinema

"One of the most astonishing works of the country’s prerevolutionary New Wave. " - Criterion.

Join us for Chess of the Wind, Thursday at the Globe. ♟️🩸

🎬: Chess of the Wind (1976)
🎟️: www.calgarycinema.org/events/ChessoftheWind
📅: July 23 @ 7 PM
📍: Globe Cinema