UCCA Beijing

UCCA Museum Night
Midnight Screening of About Elly

2015.8.20 - 2015.8.21
23:00-01:40

Cinema Arts
Location:  Auditorium
Language:  Persian with Chinese subtitles

About UCCA Museum Night

On August 20, UCCA invites you to experience an evening of artistic reflection, inspiration, and creation during our first UCCA Museum Night with a special performance by Korakrit Arunanondchai—featuring LA-based performance artist boychild, environmental artist AJ Gvojic, and Chinese Young Artist Chen Tianzhuo and his friend Bloodz Bol —commissioned to accompany the opening of his solo exhibition "2558." The performance is followed by a midnight screening of the Iranian film About Elly.

Ticketing: Free

Note:

*Collect your ticket from reception 30 minutes before the event begins.

* Please no late entry.

Guest

Tao Hui (Artist)

About Elly

Director: Asghar Farhadi

Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi

Starring: Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini

Genre: Drama/ Mystery

Country: Iran

Language: Persian

Release Date: 2009.2.7

Runtime: 119 min.

About the Film

A group of middle-class friends travel from Tehran to spend the weekend at the seaside. Sepideh invites Elly, who is her daughter's teacher, to travel with the three families in order to introduce her to their recently divorced friend Ahmad—now living in Germany. The next morning, the two women go shopping in the town and Elly says that she has to return to Tehran because her mother has been recently admitted to the hospital for heart surgery, but Sepideh insists she stay and hides her luggage. While the children are playing in the sea, one mother asks Elly to watch them. Suddenly, Sepideh's daughter calls on some men playing volleyball to rescue one of the children from the water. After rescuing the little boy, they seek out Elly, not knowing whether she has drowned or returned to Tehran.