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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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Hamed Rajabi – Paridan az ertefa kam AKA A Minor Leap Down (2015)
Nahal who is four months pregnant suddenly finds out that her child is dead. She chose silence and decides not to talk with anybody about that. Quote:A dark film with moments that recall Bunuel. Nahal...
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Hamid Nematollah – Boutique (2003)
Hamid Nematollah’s compelling drama “stakes out a new path for Iranian cinema” (Variety) as it exposes key problems plaguing modern-day Tehran. Johan is a gentle and thoughtful young man who works as...
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Mehrdad Oskouei – Az pase borghe AKA The Other Side of the Burka (2004)
Set in a tight-knit, extremely conservative island community off the Southern coast of Iran where all women wear burkas, this film begins as an investigation into the suicide of a woman named Samireh....
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Rafi Pitts – ShekarChi AKA The Hunter (2010)
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 Hajjar) and...
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Parviz Kimiavi – Baghé sangui AKA Garden of Stones (1976)
Synopsis:Darvish Khan, a deaf-mute shepherd living in the desert, has a mystical vision in a dream in which he encounters a saint. When he awakens, he finds himself clutching a large stone. Grateful...
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Arby Ovanessian – Cheshme AKA The Spring (1972)
A man falls in love with a stranger woman. The woman has her young lover whom she secretly dates in an uninhabited house. The man discovers that the subject of his affection is in fact his friend’s...
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Unknown – The Frozen Rose (2003)
Quote:This is a Iranian short film named “The Frozen Rose”. Its story is an excerpt from the movie Khodahafez Rafik meaning Goodbye my Friend (2003) which includes three mini stories. This story is...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Zendegi Va Digar Hich aka And Life Goes On (1991)
SYNOPSISOn a chaotic and congested highway toll interchange, an off-camera toll clerk listens impassively to a humanitarian public service radio broadcast from a Red Crescent spokesperson urging...
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Mehdi Fard Ghaderi – Tanavob AKA Alternation (2005)
Quote:A stealing happens on a train and it is shown from the perspective of each passenger. 217MB | 10 min 55 s | 768×576 | mkv...
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Marva Nabili – Khake Sar Beh Morh AKA The Sealed Soil (1977)
Quote:Made surreptitiously in 1977 just as the Ayatollah Khomeini regime was coming to power, a rough cut of ‘The Sealed Soil” was smuggled out of Iran by the director in a false-bottomed suitcase,...
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Mani Haghighi – Ejdeha Vared Mishavad! AKA A Dragon Arrives! (2016)
Quote:An orange Chevrolet Impala drives across a cemetery towards an abandoned shipwreck in the middle of a desert landscape. It is the 22nd of January, 1965. The day before, the Iranian prime...
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Mohammad Hossein Latifi – Khabgah-e dokhtaran AKA Girl’s Dormitory (2004)
A group of college students move into a dilapidated dormitory that is reputed by local people to be haunted. From Horror.com:The history of horror films being made in Iran goes back to the 1950’s when...
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Naser Taghvai – Daii jan Napelon AKA My Uncle Napoleon (1976)
An uproarious adoption of a popular novel by Iraj Pezeshkzad set in and around the family compound in early 1940s Tehran, marvelously rich in personality and incident. The title character, so-called...
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Ayat Najafi – No Land’s Song (2014)
Quote:In Iran, since the 1979 Islamic revolution, women are no longer allowed to sing in public as soloists – at least in front of men. Defying censorship and taboos, the young composer Sara Najafi is...
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Ebrahim Golestan – Asrar ganj dareheye jenni AKA The ghost valley’s treasure...
Quote:The Ghost Valley’s Treasure Mysteries (in Persian: اسرار گنج دره جنی, transliterated as Asrar-e Ganj-e Darre-ye Jenni), also known as “The Secrets of the Treasure of the Jinn Valley”, is a 1974...
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Seifollah Dad – Almoutabaki AKA The Survivor (1995)
An emotional and symbolic drama depicting the transformation of Palestine into Israel by focusing on an Arab and Jewish couple who occupy the same house before and after the establishment of the state...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Five: Dedicated to Ozu (2003)
Quote:Five sequences : 1) A piece of driftwood on the seashore, carried about by the waves 2) People walking on the seashore. The oldest ones stop by, look at the sea, then go away 3) Blurry shapes on...
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Forugh Farrokhzad – Khaneh siah ast AKA The House Is Black (1963) (DVD)
From Village Voice: In 1962, beloved and controversial poetess Forugh Farrokhzad went to Azerbaijan and made this short film on the grounds of a leper colony, presaging in 22 minutes the entirety of...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Zire darakhatan zeyton AKA Through the Olive Trees (1994)
Quote:‘Olive Trees’: Bears MessageBy Desson HoweWashington Post Staff WriterJuly 19, 1996 “Through the Olive Trees,” Abbas Kiarostami’s subtly involving faux-documentary, acquaints you directly with...
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