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Lesson from Bam / directed by Alireza Ghanie.
Academic Video Online: Premium - United States Available online
Academic Video Online: Premium - United States- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Ghanie, Alireza., Director.
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- Earthquakes--Iran.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (26 min.).
- Other Title:
- Original title: Mashghe Bam
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu, HI : Asia Pacific Films, 2004.
- Language Note:
- In Farsi, western (Persian).
- Original language in Farsi, western (Persian).
- Summary:
- Made 40 days after the 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran killed over 68,000 people and destroyed the city's ancient mud-brick citadel, Lesson from Bam honors the Great Citadel - a heritage that is gone, but a memory that should be kept. Director Alireza Ghanie films the children of the Old Citadel School who now attend class in the open air since most of the community's buildings have been destroyed. The children have written compositions about their experience of the earthquake, and one by one, they read their compositions to the rest of the class.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Aug. 6, 2013).
- OCLC:
- 865004452
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