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MEN AT WORK
IRAN, 2006, 75 MIN
DIRECTED BY MANI HAGHIGHI
In Farsi with English subtitles
Southeast Premiere

Iran is about to play Japan for the final game to qualify for the 2006 World Cup. Stakes are high. To four gentlemen driving back from a failed skiing trip through the mountains outside of Tehran, NOTHING can stop them from watching their nation qualify to be on the world's largest stage of sports. Nothing, that is, except a strange and enormous phallic rock formation that sits a few feet from the edge of a cliff. What started off as a bathroom break on the side of the road becomes an obsessive quest for these middleclass men in mid-life crises to dislodge the rock. This humorous tale of friendship, dedication, and masculine fixations is based on a story by the great Abbas Kiarostami (The White Balloon), and is realized as an absurd political allegory by director Mani Haghighi (Adaban). Like the four old friends in the film, Men at Work stops at nothing and defiantly goes over the edge.