The Wooden Carpet or Farseh Chob () is a 2008 Iran documentary film by Iranian Kurd director Abdolrahman Mirani, and co-produced by Honasra Qanun Institute.
Synopsis The film is set in a village in the Kermanshah region, on the Iran-Iraq border. This territory, at the foot of Mounts Zagros at about 1,400 metres altitude, is very poor and isolated. A flood has destroyed the only bridge so communications with the village are cut. This event mobilised the whole community, which started to work tirelessly to reconstruct the bridge. The documentary film narrates, step by step, every small effort made by all the inhabitants of the village, whether they are men, women, children or the elderly. The final result is, in its naturalness and spontaneity, really amazing: a long bridge made from trunks and branches finely intertwined, as if it were a decorated carpet suspended between the two banks.
Awards Won – François Ode Award (International Short Film Festival in Hamburg), 2009 Won – Bansko Town prize (Bansko Mountain Film Festival Awards), 2008Bansko Mountain Film Festival Awards Announced، bansko.info - news, features, events, hotels and apartments in Bansko, Bulgaria. Won - Paras International Documentary Short (Leeds International Film Festival), 2009 International Film Festival in Ankara in 2008 International Film Festival in Leeds (England), 2009 International Short Film Festival in Tehran in 2009 International Mountain Film Festival in Trento, 2009 International Film Festival in Uppsala (Sweden), 2009 Festival “Black International Cinema” in Berlin in 2009
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