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Showing 32 Films from Iran
Abadan
Abadan
Separated from but still emotionally attached to her husband, a woman searches desperately for her runaway father who is obsess...
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About Elly
About Elly
A group of old college pals reunites for a weekend adventure on the sea, but compounding lies and deception quickly lead to cat...
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Afghanistan, The Lost Truth
Afghanistan, The Lost Truth
An honest look at a war-ravaged land after the fall of the Taliban, going beyond the now-clichéd images of so many recent films...
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Angels Die in the Soil
Angels Die in the Soil
An Iraqi-Kurdish girl faces war and redemption in Angels Die in the Soil (Fereshtegan Dar Khak Mimirand).
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Concert of Mysteries
Concert of Mysteries
Produced by Manijeh Hekmat, whose The Wall this short accompanies, is a glimpse inside one of the only truly free places in Ira...
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Crystal
Crystal
A young woman is afflicted by a strange and rare disease that leads to painful crystals being produced in her eyelids and uteru...
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Day Break
Day Break
In Iran, a murder conviction allows for the victim's family to choose capital punishment or forgiveness for the perpetrator. Th...
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Driving Lessons
Driving Lessons
According to Iranian law, Bahareh (Linda Kiani) must have her traditional, chauvinistic husband accompany her on driving lesson...
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Eddeaa
Eddeaa
Eddeaa is a satirical revelation of the paradoxes and contradictions between tradition and modernity within Persian culture.
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Fireworks Wednesday
Fireworks Wednesday
On the last Wednesday before the spring solstice ushers in the Persian New Year, people set off fireworks following an ancient ...
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Gilaneh
Gilaneh
It is the Iranian New Year, 1988. Sadaam is bombing Tehran. And Gilaneh's family is being ripped apart by the war. Her son-in-l...
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Half Moon
Half Moon
Graying but determined, Mamo is a famed Kurdish musician who obtains permission to cross the Iranian border to give his first c...
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Head Wind
Head Wind
The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran does its best to restrict its citizens' access to information and media from the...
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Inside Out
Inside Out
There are probably few places in the world where it's more difficult to be a transexual than the Islamic Republic of Iran. Insi...
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Men at Work
Men at Work
This subtle and comic political allegory focuses on four middle-class guys who pile into their car for a ski weekend (already a...
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Moment
Moment
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Navel
Navel
This experimental "reality drama" depicts a few seemingly idle days in the lives of four men and a woman who share an apartment...
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Night of the Hunchback
Night of the Hunchback
This dark comedy, a key masterwork of Iranian cinema, has long remained unseen in the West. Adapted from a story in 1001 Nights...
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Once Upon a Time in Marrakech
Once Upon a Time in Marrakech
In the autumn of 2005, 16 film students from NYC and Morocco converged on Marrakech as guests of the Tribeca Film Institute, Tr...
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Pilgrimage/Infidels
Pilgrimage/Infidels
After Saddam's fall, hundreds of thousands of Iranians rushed to cross the suddenly unguarded border with Iraq to visit the hol...
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President Mir Qanbar
President Mir Qanbar
A 75-year old villager mounts his third campaign for Iran’s presidency, aided only by a disabled sidekick, to whom he’s natural...
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Retouch
Retouch
Maryam's husband has an accident at home and, rather than saving him, she stops helping and watches him die.
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Roads of Kiarostami
Roads of Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami has recently been exhibiting his black-and-white landscape photographs at venues around the world, and Roads o...
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Siah Bâzi: The Joy Makers
Siah Bâzi: The Joy Makers
The alarming disappearance of humor from Iran's political discourse is traced when an improv troupe of political satirists, the...
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Sounds of Silence
Sounds of Silence
In Iran, where half the population is under 30, Western music is banned, and the solo female voice has not been heard singing i...
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