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Abbas Kiarostami – Avaliha aka First Graders (1984)
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 questions of...
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Asghar Farhadi – Shahr-e ziba AKA Beautiful City (2004)
Directed by multi-award winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, ‘Beautiful City’ is a cinematic gem not to be missed. Akbar has just turned eighteen. He has been held in a rehabilitation centre for...
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Fereydun Gole – Zir-e poost-e shab (1974)
IMDB:In one of his daily wanderings, Ghassem Siah, a young jobless guy who leads a street life, runs into a young American tourist girl who is spending her last day in Tehran. Without understanding...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Bicycleran AKA The Cyclist (1989)
SummaryThe wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Khane-ye doust kodjast? AKA Where Is the Friend’s House?...
Quote:The first film in Abbas Kiarostami’s sublime, interlacing Koker Trilogy takes a simple premise—a boy searches for the home of his classmate, whose school notebook he has accidentally taken—and...
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Asghar Farhadi – Raghs dar ghobar AKA Dancing in the Dust (2003)
When forced to divorce his wife by family and social pressure because her mother is a prostitute, Nazar (Khodaparast) works double shifts to pay back the loan he took out for his impulsive wedding and...
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Amir Naderi – Jostoju AKA Search One (1980)
It all began with “Black Friday” – a massacre on Sept 8, 1978, by the Shah’s police. Official pronouncements put the death toll at 200, but the next day the people of Teheran witnessed how thousands...
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Ebrahim Golestan – Khesht va Ayeneh AKA Brick and Mirror (1965) (HD)
Hashem (Zakariya Hashemi) is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young woman. Hashem and his girlfriend, Taji (Taji Ahmadi), try to...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Ta’m e guilass AKA Taste of Cherry (1997)
Quote:An Iranian man drives his truck in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide. 2.77GB | 1 h 39 min | 956×576 | mkv...
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Ebrahim Golestan – Tappe-haye Marlik AKA The Hills of Marlik (1963)
The Hills of Marlik (1963, 15 min.) beautifully and suggestively documents archaeological excavations. Directed and narrated by Ebrahim Golestan. 92MB | 14mn 3s | 644×478 | mkv...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Mossafer aka The Traveller (1974)
SynopsisThe Traveler is a 1974 Iranian drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami that tells the story of Hassan Darabi, a troublesome, amoral 10-year-old boy in a small Iranian town. He wishes to see...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Dastforoush AKA The Peddler (1987)
Consisting of three separate stories, the director explores “Man” as a theme: birth, life and death, to present a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic portrait of life at the bottom of the socio-economic...
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Ebrahim Golestan – Tappe-haye Marlik AKA The Hills of Marlik (1963)
A beautiful short by the Iranian director about the archaelogical excavations in the area of the Marlik hills. Narrated by Golestan, the film features a reflective voice-over text exploring the lives,...
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Mohammad Rasoulof – Sheytan vojud nadarad AKA There Is No Evil (2020)
Heshmat, an exemplary husband and father, gets up very early every day. Where does he go? Pouya cannot imagine killing another man, yet he is told he must do so. Javad doesn’t know that proposing to...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Az Oghat-e Faraghat-e Khod Chegouneh Estefadeh Konim? AKA...
Quote:Evidently the first installment in a series that didn’t continue, this instructional film shows idle twelve- and sixteen-year- old brothers learning how to improve their surroundings by painting...
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Mohammad Rasoulof – Baad-e-daboor AKA Head Wind (2008)
Plot Synopsis From Allmovie:Iran is a nation where the government carefully regulates what its citizens may see on television, read in the newspapers, or access on the internet. However, despite the...
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Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini – Runaway [+Extras] (2001)
Quote:At first nothing strikes you out of the usual with Runaway. It is a straightforward documentary of exchanges between counselors at a women’s shelter and adolescent girls who have run away from...
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Shirin Neshat – Zarin (2005)
“Neshat spoke to The Stranger’s Jen Graves on Tuesday, by phone from her home in New York. I first want to talk about Zarin, the anorexic prostitute who hallucinates at the sight of her john, then...
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Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini – Divorce Iranian Style (1998)
Quote:Divorce Iranian Style challenges preconceptions about what life is like for women in Iran. The most startling thing about the film is simply that it was made. The filmmakers follow the cases of...
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Shirin Neshat – Roja (2016)
SynopsisRoja is drawn from Neshat’s own recurring dreams, memories and desires. The work traces a young woman’s disquieting attempts to connect with American culture while reconciling her...
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