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The Fish Fall in Love

Presented by the Yale Council on Middle East Studies

Introduction and discussion by Farkhondeh Shayesteh, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University

Atieh’s singular passion is food, and her small but popular restaurant on the sleepy Caspian coast is her pride and joy. But when Aziz, her former fiancé, appears after a twenty-year absence, the women believe he has intentions of closing the restaurant, so Atieh prepares his favorite dishes, one after the other, in a desperate effort to convince him otherwise. Loosely based on the Persian fable of Shahrazad and the Thousand Myths (A Thousand and One Nights), director Ali Raffi uses the language of food to paint a richly textured portrait of life and love on the northern coast of Iran.

Directed by Ali Raffi (Iran, 2006)
In Farsi with subtitles in English
Open To: General Public
Admission: Free
Sponsor(s):The Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center