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Tag Archives: Iran
Ballad of Tara / Tcherike-ye Tara (1979)

Tara, the young beautiful widow, returns with her two little kids from country to her village. Read More »
Abad va yek rooz / Life+1Day (2016) Saeed Roustayi, Peyman Moaadi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar

The graphic account of a poverty-stricken family living in Tehran through the days before the youngest daughter Read More »
Dead End / Bon Bast (1977) Parviz Sayyad

A young woman is living with her mother at the end of a dead-end street. Read More »
World War III (2022) Houman Seyyedi, Mohsen Tanabandeh

After being cast in a movie, a day laborer has to secretly shelter his lover Read More »
The House Is Black (1963) Forugh Farrokhzad

Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes “ugliness”, of which there is much in the world Read More »
Women According to Men (2020) Saeed Nouri

This well-researched documentary, with over 120 clips from archival films shot almost exclusively Read More »
Ayneh / The Mirror (1997) Jafar Panahi, Mina Mohammad Khani, Aida Mohammadkhani, Kazem Mojdehi

A girl in traditional female clothing, with her arm in plaster, comes out of school one day and doesn’t find her mother meeting her. Read More »
The Song of Sparrows / Avaze gonjeshk-ha (2008) Majid Majidi, Mohammad Amir Naji, Maryam Akbari, Kamran Dehghan

When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter’s hearing aid, which breaks right Read More »
Gheisar / Caesar (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 »