Mouth Harp in Minor Key: Hamid Naficy in/on Exile Available from Third World Newsreel "Filmmaker Sepehri explores the impact of history before and after the Islamic Revolution on the generation of those whose lives are divided between early life in the homeland and an adulthood in permanent exile in the West. The film delineates Naficy’s unique role as an interpreter of the experience in all of its complexity." - Festival of Films from Iran, Chicago For Iranian scholar Hamid Naficy, exile is like an elevator that runs between “two cultural poles, two memories, two lives.” Naficy belongs to the Iranian generation that lived through the modernization of the country that preceded the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and the Islamization that followed it. Like many Iranians who were studying in the United States universities when the revolution began, he chose not to return to Iran. Both bilingual and bicultural, Naficy is known for conducting penetrating analyses of both the rich cultural heritage of his homeland—his roots—and of the fecund terrain of exile in his adopted land—his routes. In his adopted country, he became a professor at Northwestern University, published author, filmmaker, leading expert in diaspora studies, exile, and postcolonial cinema, as well as a husband and father. At the same time, he managed to keep a close link to Iran, his culture, his family and more importantly, his mother. Iranian filmmaker Maryam Sepehry followed both Hamid Naficy in the United State and his family in Iran to capture a documentary portrait that packs a powerful punch elucidating the complexities of personal identity in a globalized world, where individual, national, and transnational forces interact. A timely documentary film about exiles in America and the families they left behind, MOUTH HARP IN MINOR KEY sheds light on the dynamics of our contemporary times, beset by globalization and consolidation of capital and media, on the one hand, and by fragmentation and disruptions of nation-states, on the other. (Maryam Sepehri, 2017, 61 min, Trailer <https://vimeo.com/364385394>) Cinema Verite Festival in Tehran, 2017 Festival of Films from Iran, Chicago, 2017 Visions of Iran: Iranian Film Festival Cologne, 2019 Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival, 2018 Milwaukee Film, 2019 PURCHASE NOW! http://www.twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1513&card=price BOOK NOW! https://goo.gl/forms/QOtoJrxSrNU6ImS42 Sincerely, Roselly Third World Newsreel (212) 947-9277 ext. 10 Pronouns: she/her/hers Pronombre: ella ᐧ ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org