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Mohammad Reza Kheradmandan – Gharar Panjshanbeh AKA Thursday Appointment (2019)
QuoteA beautifully moving story of an old man driving in the busy streets of Tehran. At the traffic lights he notices a young girl who is sad in the back seat of her parent’s car, they are too busy...
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Ali Ahmadzade – Madar-e ghalb atomi AKA Atomic Heart Mother (2015)
On their way back from a wild party, Arineh and Nobahar cause a car accident. A mysterious stranger by the name of Toofan offers to cover the costs. This won’t be the last time they’ll cross his path...
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Samira Makhmalbaf – Panj é asr AKA At Five In The Afternoon (2003)
Quote:In the bombed-out ruins of post-Taliban Kabul, Noqreh (Agheleh Rezaie) lives with her conservative father (Abdolgani Yousefrazi) and her sister-in-law, Leylomah (Marzieh Amiri), in temporary...
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Maryam Moghadam & Behtash Sanaeeha – Ghasideyeh gave sefid AKA Ballad of a...
Quote:Mina’s life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, so she starts a silent battle against a cynical system for her own and her...
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Mohammad Rasoulof – Gagooman AKA The Twilight (2002)
Plainly but nonetheless effectively handled, “The Twilight” relates a case of prison recidivism with the real-life subjects playing themselves. Chance to glimpse incarceration and ex-con life in Iran...
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Manijeh Hekmat – Bandar Band (2020)
Quote:After a long time, some Iranian women singers are going to enter an unofficial competition in a coffee shop in Tehran. Pregnant Mahla along with the other members of Bandar Band, her husband and...
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Hana Makhmalbaf – Ruzha-ye Sabz AKA Green Days (2009)
Ava, an Iranian woman suffering from depression, blames recent political events in Iran for her troubled mental state and goes to a psychologist. The psychologist advises her to take on physical work,...
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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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Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini – Runaway (2001)
This documentary follows the stories of five young girls who arrive at a refuge in Iran’s capital city Tehran, having run away from abusive or neglectful families. 1.21GB | 1h 24m | 702×574 | mkv...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Bad ma ra khahad bord AKA The Wind Will Carry Us...
A group of men from the city of Tehran traverse the rural Iranian countryside on a jeep, guided by a set of descriptive, yet unavoidably imprecise directions, seemingly lost. The driver (Behzad...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Lebassi Baraye Arossi AKA The Wedding Suit AKA A Wedding...
Abbas Kiarostami wrote:“In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.” Quote:A woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister’s wedding. The...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Tadjrebeh AKA The Experience (1973) (HD)
Abbas Kiarostami wrote:“In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.” Quote:Mamad, an orphaned teenager, works as a messenger boy in a photographic studio, where he also...
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Panah Panahi – Jaddeh Khaki AKA Hit the Road (2021)
A chaotic, tender family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape, but to where? In the back seat, dad has a broken leg, but is it really broken? Mom tries to laugh when she’s not holding back...
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Rafi Pitts – Fasl-e panjom AKA The Fifth Season (1997)
Quote:The fight for power in an isolated Iranian village. Two families have been enemies for so long they cannot even remember why. The only hope for peace between the feuding families is lost when an...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Man ham mitounam AKA So Can I (1975)
The first of Kiarostami’s films made for, rather than about, children was an experiment in combining live action and animation, done in collaboration with animator Nafiseh Riahi. As two schoolboys...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Rah Hal-e Yek AKA Solution No. 1 (1978)
Quote:The rare Kanoon film that doesn’t involve children, this unusual road movie was made during the Revolution and afforded Kiarostami what may have been a welcome escape from the capital. Shot amid...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Hamshahri AKA Fellow Citizen (1983)
Quote:Kiarostami’s fascination with both Tehrani car culture and the uses of power in post-revolutionary society come together in this documentary about a traffic officer assigned to enforce driving...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Bozorgdasht-e mo’Allem AKA Tribute to the Teachers (1977)
SYNOPSIS:An assignment from the Ministry of Education, this documentary from the last years of the Pahlavi dynasty includes interviews with government officials who predictably praise teaching as a...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Dandan Dard AKA Toothache (1980)
SYNOPSIS:Though much of this film is a straightforward lecture on dental hygiene delivered by a dentist facing the camera, it still manages to be persuasively Kiarostami-esque in its description of...
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Tahmineh Milani – Do Zan AKA Two Women (1999)
Synopsis:Country girl Fereshteh and city girl Roya, schoolmates at Tehran University in the early ’80s, become fri ends when the former tutors the latter to pay her way through architectural school....
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