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Tag Archives: Persian
Mother / Madar (1990)
The film progresses along two distinct but interwoven series of events. Read More »
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 »