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Mania Akbari – 10 + 4 (Dah be alaveh chahar) (2007)
After casting painter and video artist Mania Akbari as the central figure of his groundbreaking Ten (2002), and then witnessing her outstanding debut as a feature film director in 20 Fingers (2004),...
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Ebrahim Golestan – Ganjine-haye gohar AKA The crown jewels of Iran (1965)
Quote: “The Iranian Crown Jewels (1965, 15 min.), commissioned and then banned by the shah’s cultural ministry, is a formally dazzling and politically provocative brief on its subject.” Jonathan...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Sokout AKA The Silence (1998)
Quote: The Silence (Sokhout), a startlingly fresh and elegant work, is about a ten-year-old boy, Khorshid, who is blind. Khorshid’s father, in Russia, has abandoned him and his mother, who in order to...
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Parviz Kimiavi – P mesle pelican AKA P Like Pelican (1972) DVD
Quote: An old hermit lives in a slum and wants to teach the alphabet to the children regularly go there to play. What makes the hermit happiest however, is when he comes to the letter P (for...
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Panahbarkhoda Rezaee – Cheraghi dar meh AKA A Light in the Fog (2008)
Quote: A widow and her father live alone and make a living by mending oil lamps and making charcoal. 963MB | 1h 14mn | 758×394 | mkv...
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Rafi Pitts – ShekarChi AKA The Hunter (2010)
synopsis A man turns to violence after losing those he loves most in this taut drama from Iran. Ali (Rafi Pitts) is a reformed criminal who lives in a small flat in Tehran with his wife Sara (Mitra...
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Ali Asgari – Disappearance (2017)
Synopsis: On a cold winter’s night in modern Tehran, a couple of young lovers run into a serious problem, and they have just a few hours to come up with a solution. They go from hospital to hospital...
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Ramin Serry – Maryam (2000)
A voice from IMDB Several of the negative comments about this film were so blind. This movie is about American culture and makes you think about big questions that nag us — why do Americans respond to...
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Mohammad Rasoulof – Lerd AKA A Man of Integrity (2017)
A former university professor now living as a goldfish farmer in a Northern Iranian village, Reza quietly tends to his own affairs alongside his wife Hadis, a principal at a local girls’ school, and...
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Saman Moghadam – Cafe Setareh AKA Star Cafe (2006)
The overlapping tales of three Iranian women who live in a poor Tehran neighborhood unfold by revisiting certain plot points from different perspectives. Each revisit reveals new insights into the...
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Mohammad Rasoulof – Keshtzar haye sepid AKA White Meadows (2009)
Quote: In this dreamlike yet earthbound film, Rahmat the boatman navigates the increasingly brackish waters of a coastal land, collecting the heartaches and tears of its inhabitants. But he remains...
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Behrouz Shoaybi – Darkoob AKA Axing (2018)
The story of an addicted woman Mahsa who thinks that her girl is dead but when finds out that she is alive and lives by her father (Mahsa’s ex-husband) decides to take her back. This put her to face...
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Jafar Panahi – Se rokh AKA 3 Faces (2018)
SynopsisThree actresses at different stages of their career. One from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, one popular star of today known throughout the country and a young girl longing to attend a...
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Mohammad Rasoulof – Jazireh ahani AKA Iron Island (2005)
Ostensibly a fast-paced tale about poor people in the Persian Gulf living aboard a sinking oil tanker, “Iron Island” is a galloping fable full of offbeat characters and entertaining moments. At the...
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Mostafa Kiayee – 4 Rah Istanbul AKA Istanbul Junction (2018)
Quote:Bahman and Ahad are two bankrupt manufacturers who are fleeing from their creditors. But when a fire in Plasco Building happens it is their chance to take advantages. 1.35GB | 1 h 34 min |...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Honarpisheh AKA The Actor (1993)
An Iranian actor named Akbar is trying to become a serious actor instead of the clown everyone considers him to be. However financial problems force him to abandon his dream of being an artistic...
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Kamran Shirdel – Nedamatgah AKA Women’s Prison (1965)
“Women’s Prison” recounts the life of the prisoners and the problems their families encounter in their struggle to survive. Here again filmmaker Kamran Shirdel employs the cinema verité style. The...
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Hadi Mohaghegh – Mamiroo AKA Immortal (2015)
Ayaz, a lonely seventy-year-old man, detests his life. He’s constantly in search of ways of ending his life. Some years back, on the way back from a family wedding party, the minibus which he was...
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Abbas Kiarostami – 24 Frames (2017)
Synopsis:24 Frames is an experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life. It is a collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minute films inspired by still...
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Kamran Shirdel – Teheran, payetakht-e Iran ast AKA Tehran is the Capital of...
“Tehran is the Capital of Iran” (1966-79) documents life in a deprived district in the south of Tehran. The images of destitution in Tehran’s poor areas is accompanied by a variety of spoken accounts:...
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