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Only Five Minutes (2016)

Only Five Minutes poster
Directed by
Mohammad Mohammadian
Genre
experimental film
Country
Iran
Runtime
5 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An Iranian experimental film that explores time and perception. It follows a person who experiences the same short span of minutes repeatedly.

experimentalcontemplativeminimalistslow-pacedmeditativequietintrospective

What happens

Mohammad Mohammadian (Persian: محمد محمدیان; Persian pronunciation: [mohæmˈmæde: mohæmˈmædeiˈɒːn]; born 22 June 1987) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and producer. He became interested in cinema in his teenage years, and started his filmmaking education with the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, whose cinematic style has been a great influence on him. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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