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On the final weekend of the Festival of Films from Iran, we pay tribute to Ebrahim Golestan, a monumental figure in pre-revolution Iranian cinema, who died at the ripe old age of one hundred last year. Mitra Farahani’s film presents an epistolary and filmic exchange between Golestan and French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. Encouraged by Farahani, Godard began sending cryptic emails from his mansion in Switzerland to Golestan in his English manor, always signing off “see you Friday, Robinson,” in a nod to Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Their touching and amusing correspondence is a treasure trove of both men’s thoughts on cinema, art, and mortality as both approached the end of their lives. Golestan’s landmark debut feature, Brick and Mirror, will screen on February 18 at 2 p.m. (Mitra Farahani, France/Switzerland/Iran, 2021, 97 min., DCP, Persian, French and English with English subtitles)