The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf Read More »
Tag Archives: Persian
This Is Not a Film / In film nist (2011) Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
It’s been months since Jafar Panahi, stuck in jail, has been awaiting a verdict by the appeals court. Read More »
The Wind Will Carry Us / Bad Ma Ra Khahad Bord (1999)
This idiosyncratic drama from Iran begins as a jeep winds through the hills of Kurdistan Read More »
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) Ana Lily Amirpour, Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness Read More »
Here One Does Not Die (2016) Hossein Kondori, Reza Behbudi, Mehdi Hosseininia, Faramarz Karamati
Ashkan is a soldier guarding some place near the border between Iraq and Iran. Read More »
Beyond the Fire (1987) Ansuyeh Atash
Greed and power are the principal themes in Kianus Aayari’s tale about two brothers in 1970’s Iran. Read More »
Pari (1995) Dariush Mehrjui, Niki Karimi, Ali Mosaffa, Khosro Shakibai
Haunted by a book found in her dead brother’s room, Pari wanders around to find answers for a meaningful life. Read More »
The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood (1990) Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Manuchehr Esmaili, Mojgan Naderi, Parvaneh Goharani
An embittered Professor and his daughter (whose job it is to nurse sucidal patients) try to deal with life in Iran before and after the fall of the Shah. Read More »
Baduk (1992) Majid Majidi, Mohammad Kasebi, Mehrollah Mazarehi, Norahmad Barahoi
Baduk is the name of the child who works in smuggling, due to poverty he Read More »
Hoviyat / Identity (1986) Ebrahim Hatamikia, Jalil Farjad, Reza Asadi, Ali Gholami
Nasser Pooyan goes on a trip to the north of Iran with some of his friends. Read More »