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1) 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...
Language
English
Description
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...
Language
English
Description
Set: a two-disc set that includes a trilogy of a documentaries by film scholar Jamsheed Akrami.
Friendly persuasion (2000) gives an overarching portrait of Iranian cinema through interviews with three generations of Iranian directors - from New Wave visionaries (Abbas Kiarostami) to post-revolutionaries (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) and the third generation (Jafar Panahi).
The lost cinema (2007) digs deeper into the Iranian New Wave, which blossomed as a...
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