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2) ABC Africa
Language
Persian
Description
Uganda, March 2000. At the request of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development, Abbas Kiarostami and his assistant Seilollah Samadian arrive in Kampala. For ten days, their DV cameras capture and caress the faces of thousand children, all orphans, whose parents have died of AIDS. It records tears and laughter, music and silence, life and death. It attests to Africa’s sunny resilience to so much suffering and disease.
3) Painting
Language
Persian
Description
In the Skaramanga’s Refugee Camp Greece, a group of refugee children from Afghanistan at the age of 10-13 paint their experience and memories from the war and their journey to Europe. In this short documentary they describe through their drawings their city as they remember it, the city that they've found shelter in and the city that they wish to live in the future. Winner of an Audience Award at the **Thessaloniki Documenatary Film Festival**.
Language
Persian
Description
After five years of studying in Paris, Arash has struggled to adapt to life in France and has decided to return to Iran. In the hope of changing his mind, his two friends take him on one last trip across France. Official Selection at the **BFI London Film Festival**. *"Goormaghtigh reinvigorates the summertime road-trip genre with this lyrical, keenly observed, acutely political comedy." - Richard Brody, **New Yorker***
Language
Persian
Description
A stark testimonial of the previously unseen and unheard, this documentary plunges us into the lives of young teenage girls sharing temporary quarters at a rehabilitation and correction center on the outskirts of Tehran. STARLESS DREAMS is an unforgettable cinematic portrayal of restored innocence and humanity. Winner of the Amnesty International Film Prize at the **Berlin International Film Festival.** Winner of the Best Documentary Award at the...
Language
Persian
Description
Mehrdad Oskouei’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed Starless Dreams (2016), SUNLESS SHADOWS takes another look at the lives of teenage girls in an Iranian juvenile detention center. But this time the focus is narrowed: each of the film’s principal subjects is serving time for the murder of a male family member. One by one, Oskouei invites them to go into a room alone, push the red button on the camera and address their accomplices or their...
Language
Persian
Description
When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili's head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters. Capturing their uncertain journey, Fazili shows firsthand the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run.
Language
Persian
Description
Mitra Farahani’s lyrical documentary explores the enigma of provocative artist Bahman Mohassess, the so-called “Persian Picasso,” whose acclaimed paintings and sculptures dominated pre-revolutionary Iran. Irreverent and uncompromising, a gay man in a hostile world, Mohassess had a conflicted relationship with his homeland—revered by elites in the art scene and praised as a national icon, only to be censored later by an oppressive regime. Known...
Language
Persian
Description
A filmmaker travels to a remote mountain village secretly planning to record a local ritual ceremony surrounding an old dying woman. He befriends a local boy who ultimately becomes his informant on the fate of the old woman. As the rustling wind, golden light, and deep shadows of the village cast an alluring spell, the deathwatch drags on as the woman stubbornly clings to life, leaving the crew impatient.
Language
Persian
Description
This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (Offside, The Circle) during his house arrest in his Tehran apartment. While appealing his sentence, six years in prison and a 20 year ban from filmmaking, Panahi is seen talking to his family and lawyer on the phone, discussing his plight with Mirtahmasb....
11) Ten
Language
Persian
Description
A portrait of contemporary Iran, as seen through the eyes of one woman as she drives through the streets of Tehran over a period of several days. Her journey is comprised of ten conversations with various female passengers.
Series
Criterion collection volume 519
Language
Persian
Formats
Description
In this documentary-style film, which reconstructs events leading up to a trial and includes footage of actual trial proceedings, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami tells the story of unemployed Iranian man, Hossain Sabzian, who insinuated himself into the lives of a well-to-do Iranian family by posing as famous Iranian director Moshen Makhmalbaf and promising their son a prominent role in his next film.
Language
Persian
Description
Mitra Farahani's lyrical documentary explores the enigma of provocative artist Bahman Mohassess, the so-called "Persian Picasso, " whose acclaimed paintings and sculptures dominated pre-revolutionary Iran. Irreverent and uncompromising, a gay man in a hostile world, Mohassess had a conflicted relationship with his homeland -revered by elites in the art scene and praised as a national icon, only to be censored later by an oppressive regime.
Language
Persian
Description
Documentary of two young Iranian sisters who share their lives, fears, and dreams with filmmaker Behzadi. Both girls would like to wait until their 20's for marriage so that they may complete their education. Their father will allow them to continue their education only until a suitor comes along. He will then force the girls into marriage.
16) Baba Joon
Language
Persian
Description
Yitzhak runs the turkey farm his father built after they emigrated from Iran to Israel. Yitzhak hopes his thirteen-year-old son, Moti, will continue the proud family tradition, but his passion lies in fixing up cars. Yitzhak takes Moti's refusal to take over the farm as a personal rejection, and the result sets off a chain of events that causes familial turmoil.
17) Be my voice
Language
Persian
Description
"Clips with women who openly defy the regime by driving a car, cycling or staying outdoors without a hijab are spread on social media. Behind the uprising is the journalist and activist Masih Alinejad, who with 6 million followers on social media has quickly become a nail in the coffin for the regime of Iran. Filmmaker Nahid Persson turns her gaze back to her old homeland and sees a growing resistance movement with a rare fearless and charismatic...
Language
Persian
Description
"One of the preeminent figures of Iranian cinema, Mohsen Makhmalbaf has written and directed an impressive array of acclaimed films, winning accolades at international film festivals and admiration of world cinema audiences. This collection presents three of his most lyrical works which the director has termed his Poetic Trilogy. Gabbeh tells of an elderly couple who stop by a stream to wash a Persian rug (gabbeh). A beautiful woman, depicted in...
19) Filmfarsi
Language
Persian
Description
Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, Iranian style! A personal journey through the history of Iranian popular cinema before the revolution and the world of "filmfarsi", a term referring to the rowdy and melodramatic genre films made from the early 1950s to 1979. This documentary uncovers a cinema of titillation, action and big emotions, which presented a troubling mirror for the country, as Iran struggled to reconcile its religious traditions with the turbulence...
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