THE SILENCE

Khorshid, a young blind boy from Tajikistan, earns rent money for his family by tuning rare instruments but becomes enraptured by the sonorous music he hears on his way to work each day.

A transcendental tribute to the possibilities of sound and music, this deeply-felt and highly symbolic film hails from Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a major figure in Iranian cinema who, like Abbas Kiarostami, emerged following the 1979 Revolution. Profound and poetic, The Silence is a stirring tour de force.