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Tag Archives: Iran
A Few Days Later… AKA Chand rooz ba’d… (2006) Niki Karimi, Behrang Alavi, Ehsan Amani, Ali-Reza Anoushfar
The story is about a woman Shahrzad who is being a while that should make an important decision. Read More »
Tales AKA Ghesse-ha (2014) Rakhshan Banietemad, Habib Rezaei, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Mehraveh Sharifinia
A series of seven interconnected vignettes about different people dealing with their everyday problems in modern day Iran. Read More »
Prince Ehtejab (1974) Bahman Farmanara, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Fakhri Khorvash, Valiyollah Shirandami
Prince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, is suffering from tuberculosis, which he knows is fatal. Read More »
The Blind Owl (1975) Kiumars Derambakhsh, Parviz Fanizadeh, Farshid Farshood, Novin Ghiasi
The uncle of the young narrator enters his house unexpectedly. Read More »
Two-Legged Horse (2008) Samira Makhmalbaf, Ziya Mirza Mohamad, Haron Ahad, Gol-Ghotai
A father who has a young son with one leg and no other household members must go to India for some weeks. Read More »
Through the Olive Trees (1994) Abbas Kiarostami, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva
The movie focuses on one of the events in Zendegi Edame Darad (1992) Read More »
Beautiful City (2004) Asghar Farhadi, Taraneh Alidoosti, Faramarz Gharibian, Babak Ansari
Directed by multi-award winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, ‘Beautiful City’ is a cinematic gem not to be missed. Read More »
Alchemy (1995) Ahmad Reza Darvish, Bita Farahi, Reza Kianian, Khosro Shakibai
During the Iran-Iraq war, Reza’s wife gives birth, and dies soon afterward. Reza is taken as POW. Read More »
At Five In The Afternoon (2003) Samira Makhmalbaf, Agheleh Rezaie, Abdolgani Yousefrazi, Razi Mohebi
Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Read More »
Gheisar (1969) Masud Kimiai, Behrouz Vossoughi, Pouri Baneai, Nasser Malekmotei
When Gheisar returns to town, he finds that his sister committed suicide after being raped and her brother was murdered. Read More »
Still Life (1974) Houshang Baharlou, Morteza Momayyez, Zadour Bonyadi, Mohammed Kani, Hibibollah Safarian
For more than three decades, aging Iranian Mohamad Sardari (Zadour Bonyadi) has worked as a crossing guard at a desolate train station. Read More »
Far from Home (1975) Sohrab Shahid Saless, Parviz Sayyad, Cihan Anasai, Muhammet Temizkan
Husseyin (Parviz Sayyad), Turkish migrant workers, working in a factory in West Germany. Read More »
My Tehran for Sale (2009) Granaz Moussavi, Marzieh Vafamehr, Amir Chegini, Asha Mehrabi
Marzieh is a young female actress living in Tehran. The authorities ban her theatre work and, like all young people in Iran Read More »
24 Frames (2017) Abbas Kiarostami
What happens in the moments before and after a photograph is taken? 24 Frames answers this question and unites the two artistic languages Kiarostami dedicated his life to. Read More »