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Jafar Panahi – Ayneh AKA Mirror (1997)
A girl in traditional female clothing, and her arm in plaster, comes out of school one day and doesn’t find her mother meeting her…...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Scream of the Ants (2006)
Plot Synopsis from allmovie: As a newlywed couple boards a train bound for India and are forced to reconcile atheism and faith in director Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s spiritual-themed drama. He is a...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Avaliha aka First Graders (1984)
From IMDb: A documentary film about a boys school in Iran. The film shows numerous, funny and moving interviews of many different young pupils of this school summoned by their superintendent for...
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Jafar Panahi – Talaye sorkh AKA Crimson Gold (2003)
Synopsis : A murder and a suicide occur early one morning in a jewelry store. Behind this headline lies the story of a desperate man’s feelings of humiliation in a world of social injustice … When his...
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Mohsen Islamzadeh – Sunnis in Iran -How Sunni Muslims live in a Shiite...
At the time of the Egyptian crisis, Ahmad Mustafa, an economic and political analyst from Egypt, finds an opportunity to travel to Iran to meet and talk Sunni people; an 11000 kilometer journey; a...
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Reza Dormishian – Boghz AKA Hatred (2012)
Quote: Jaleh and Hamid are two youngsters from the third generation of Iranian immigrants in Turkey. Their families came here to have a peaceful life. We see two parallel narrations from two different...
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Majid Barzegar – Fasle Baranhaye Mousemi (2010)
Sina, a sixteen years old teenager from today’s Tehranian middle class, experiences a new life on the verge of his parents’ divorce. Added to his very real sense of having been abandoned is the threat...
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Rasool Mollagholi Poor – Safar be Chazabeh AKA Journey to Ghazabeh (1995)
Experimental war film about two friends who travel back in time to the front lines of the Iran-Iraq War. http://keep2s.cc/file/7f9cfa66f32bb/Journey_to_Ghazabeh.mkv...
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Ahmad Reza Darvish – Kimia AKA Alchemy (1995)
During the Iran-Iraq war, Reza’s wife gives birth, and dies soon afterward. Reza is taken as POW. Shokooh finds Reza’s baby and raises her as her own. Many years later, Reza find’s his daughter...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Nassereddin Shah, Actor-e Cinema AKA Once Upon a Time,...
In this meditation on the history of cinema, contemporary scenes blend with clips from the silent era. A cinematographer (Mehdi Hashemi) consults with the shah of Iran (Ezzatollah Entezami) in an...
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Jafar Panahi – Taxi AKA Taxi Teheran (2015)
Jafar Panahi is banned from making movies by the Iranian government, he poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran. (IMDb) Quote: One can wonder how is it possible that...
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Asghar Farhadi – Darbareye Elly AKA About Elly (2009)
Quote: About Elly, Iranian director Asgher Farhadi’s fourth feature, is a tightly-knit, intense drama about a sunny story gone tragic. Winner of the Best Director award at the Berlinale this year, the...
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Tahmineh Milani – Nimeh-ye penhan aka The Hidden Half (2001)
Iranian Director Tamineh Milani was arrested and faced execution for making The Hidden Half, a film that had been approved by government censors. Milani has been released, but the charges have not...
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Safi Yazdanian – Dar donya ye to saat chand ast? AKA What’s the Time in Your...
On a sudden whim Goli decides to return to Iran after 20 years of living in France. She lands in Rasht, her home town, located in the north of the country. Farhad, a frame maker by trade, comes to...
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Jafar Panahi – Taxi AKA Taxi Teheran (2015) (HD)
Jafar Panahi is banned from making movies by the Iranian government, he poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran. (IMDb) One can wonder how is it possible that the...
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Mohammad-Ali Talebi – Beed-o baad AKA Willow and Wind (1999)
Quote: A school window is broken, and kids can’t concentrate because the rain is getting in. The culprit isn’t allowed back into class until he mends it. So he carries a large pane of glass by hand...
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Rafi Pitts – Sanam (2000)
Plot Summary: In a small valley, riders pursue and kill a man. A horse thief, so his assassins claim. But for his ten year old son Issa, the disappearance of his father causes an avalanche of...
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Reza Mirkarimi – Emrouz AKA Today (2014)
Synopsis: A taxi driver takes a young woman at a small Iranian hospital. As long as he gets there he realizes that he must take crucial decisions that may change his life. Review: Too few risks have...
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Kiumars Poorahmad – Sharm AKA Shame (1992)
Majid makes an 8-mm film with some poorly-lit sequences. To repeat the shots, Majid needs highly sensitive negatives and, therefore, some money. He comes up with the money by working as a coolie, but...
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Nima Javidi – Melbourne (2014)
The film recounts the story of a young couple on their way to Melbourne to continue their studies. However, just a few hours before the departure of their flight, they are unintentionally involved in...
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