Iranian Culture Festival: Screening of Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s film “Gabbeh”

This showing is FREE and open to the public. In this Iranian romantic fantasy, an elderly married couple (Hossein Moharami, Roghieh Moharami) head to the river to wash their gabbeh, a traditional Persian carpet with a colorful illustration of a young woman woven into it. During their trip to the river, the figure in the design (Shaghayegh Djodat) springs miraculously to life, declares herself to be called Gabbeh, and then spins a story about her history, family and the man she loved but was forbidden to marry.