Lesson From Bam

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Original Title: Mashghe Bam

Released: 2004

Country: Iran

Director: Alireza Ghanie

Language: Persian

Theme: History

Genre: Documentary

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.