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Title: PILGRIMAGE

Reference number: 8399

Date: 2008c

Director: d. Samad Sheidaei

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 5.58 mins

Description: A short expressionistic documentary about a call to prayer at the annual Hajj.

By Iranian filmmaker and Glasgow resident Bijan Sheidaei. (Filmed and produced in Iran, re-edited and subtitled with Diversity Films)

Credits: camera Akbar Allahyari

Shotlist: In the holy city of Medina in Saudi Arabia every day many people go to the Al-Nabi mosque to pray. The prophet of Islam used to pray here more than 1400 years ago. During the period of Hajj muslim people from all over the world go to this city to pray. The people pray five times a day. This short film shows the pilgrims going to the Al-Nabi mosque early in the morning.