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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....
2) Born in Evin
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English
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Follow filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world. Forty years have passed since the monarchy of the Shah of Iran and the Islamic Republic declared. In the 1980s, Ayatollah Khomeini had tens of thousands of political opponents arrested, persecuted and murdered. Among them, the filmmaker's parents who, after years in prison,...
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English
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"Abbas Kiarostami's Cinema of Life focuses on this major filmmaker's opposition to war, his eclectic spirituality which opposes orthodox Islam, and the symbolic texture of his cinema which is more attuned to poetic than philosophical interpretation. It is one of only a few English language books on Kiarostami's films, and the only to cover the most-up-to-date films and consider the Iranian context of Kiarostami's films, with a focus on content and...
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English
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Jafar Panahi, the Iranian writer/director of internationally acclaimed films is under house arrest, and has been banned from filmmaking for 20 years. "This is not a film" is a courageous effort by Panahi and his co-director Motjaba Mirtahmasb to fight against censorship and for human rights, not only for his colleagues in the Iranian film industry, but filmmakers everywhere. This day-in-the-life documentary of Jafar Panahi's experience of being under...
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