Salaam Cinema
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A playful, self-reflexive documentary-drama that uses casting auditions as a lens to satirize cinema, ambition, and the gap between dreams and reality.
Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.
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