Far From Home

1975 / dir. Sohrab Shahid Saless / 91 min / New 4K Restoration

Turkish immigrant Husseyin (Iranian actor and director Parviz Sayyad) spends his days in hypnotic routine as a “guest worker” in ‘70s West Berlin, living in a small, shared apartment and commuting daily to his job at a factory pressing machine parts. Diligently saving up his wages he hopes to one day marry and buy a house back home, but his immediate future in Berlin is clouded by indignities at the hands of racist coworkers and botched attempts at romantic intimacy. With only his fellow immigrant housemates as patchwork community, Husseyin perseveres with a quiet dignity in the face of an alienating country.

One of the most celebrated filmmakers in Iranian cinema, Sohrab Shahid Saless (Still Life) directed Far From Home at a pivot period in his own life, as he transitioned from Iran to living and working in Berlin. A masterwork of restraint, repetition and patience, the film is at once a chronicle of the quotidian and a deeply observed, resonant portrait of the immigrant experience. Largely unseen for decades, Arbelos is proud to bring the Far From Home to North American audiences in a gorgeous new 4k restoration courtesy of Shahid Saless Archive and Provobis Film.

Screenings:
Oct 28 + Nov 8, 2023	MoMA	New York, NY	buy tickets
June 16, 2024	Coral Gables Art Cinema	Coral Gables, FL	buy tickets
Aug 8, 2024	Mezzanine	Los Angeles, CA	buy tickets
Aug 10, 2024	Cleveland Cinematheque	Cleveland, OH	buy tickets
Aug 21+27, 2024	Suns Cinema	Washington, DC	buy tickets
Sept 7+8, 2024	Austin Film Society	Austin, TX	buy tickets
Sept 13-20, 2024	Gene Siskel Film Center	Chicago, IL	buy tickets
Sept 25, 2024	Spacy	Dallas, TX	get tickets
Oct 1, 2024	Wexner Center for the Arts	Columbus, OH	buy tickets
Oct 3, 2024	UWM Union Cinema	Milwaukee, WI	buy tickets
Oct 10, 2024	Oklahoma City Museum of Art	Oklahoma City, OK	buy tickets
Oct 11, 2024	UW Cinematheque	Madison, WI	buy tickets