This gorgeously filmed epic focuses on a Qashqai tribe of Southern Iran who are famed for their abstract and colourful Persian "Gabbeh" carpets.

A gabbeh picturing a man and a woman riding away on horseback is the prized possession of a nomadic elderly couple. When they sit to wash it on the bank of a creek, the beautiful woman depicted in the rug's design appears and expresses her frustration waiting for her father’s permission to marry.

The collaboration between cinematographer Mahmoud Kelari, musician Hossein Alizadeh and filmmaker Makhmalbaf made Gabbeh an impressive art-house film to be viewed, remembered, and re-examined for many generations to come.

Short film, The House is Black, by trailblazing feminist Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad will play before Gabbeh.

This June, join our LUMI Programmers in celebrating the powerful representations and censorship-defying contributions of Women in Iranian Cinema.