During the Iran-Iraq war, Reza’s wife gives birth, and dies soon afterward. Reza is taken as POW. Read More »
Tag Archives: Persian
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 »
Dancing in the Dust (2003) Asghar Farhadi, Faramarz Gharibian, Yousef Khodaparast, Baran Kosari, Drama
When forced to divorce his wife by family and social pressure because her mother is a prostitute Read More »
Ejareh-Nesheenha / The Lodgers / The Tenants (1986) Dariush Mehrjui, Akbar Abdi, Ezzatolah Entezami, Farimah Farjami, Comedy, Drama
Two brothers are involved in a dispute over a house in urban Tehran. It is only through a series of adventures with the tenants that they are able to settle their differences.
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About Elly / Darbareye Elly (2009) Asghar Farhadi, Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Writer/director Asghar Farhadi offers this revealing look at the Iranian middle class by examining how one simple lie can open up a Pandora’s box of problems. Read More »
Hamshahri / Fellow Citizen (1983) Abbas Kiarostami, Documentary
On July 1983, lawmakers in Teheran decided to close off a section of the capital to regular traffic. Read More »
Ajans-E Shisheh-I / The Glass Agency (1999) Ebrahim Hatamikia, Parviz Parastui, Reza Kianian, Habib Rezaei, Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
The Glass Agency is the story of a war veteran living in post war Iran. It depicts veterans who are suffering from social problems after the war. Read More »
Mogholha / The mongols (1973) Fahimeh Rastegar, Parviz Kimiavi, Aqa Seyyed, Adventure, Drama, History
A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film Read More »