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1) The Charmer
Language
Persian
Description
A NY Times Critics Pick, Milad Alami’s award-winning debut film THE CHARMER, about Esmail an Iranian man seeking a Danish bride, is an absorbing, slow-burning thriller that explores race, class, and immigrant identity.
2) The salesman
Language
Persian
Description
The story of a couple whose relationship begins to turn sour during their performance of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
3) Invasion
Language
Persian
Description
Director Shahram Mokri’s third and most formally challenging film continues the time-bending, single-shot experimentation of FISH & CAT (and later, CARELESS CRIME) in a science-fiction/detective/vampire story, with nods to stylized 1980s New Wave-era films like LIQUID SKY. Sometime in the future, teams of tattooed athletes play a vaguely defined sport in an ominous, labyrinthine stadium where a murder has taken place. When police try to reconstruct...
4) 3 faces
Language
Persian
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Actress Behnaz Jafari is distraught when she comes across a young girl's video plea for help after her family prevents her from taking up her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker Jafar Panahi to help with the young girl's troubles. They travel by car to the rural Northwest, where they have encounters with the charming and generous folk of the girl's mountain village. But Behnaz and Jafar also discover...
5) Holy spider
Language
Persian
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Female journalist Arezoon Rahimmi travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting sex workers. As she draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain when the murderer is embraced by many as a hero. Based on the true story of the 'Spider Killer' Saeed Hanaei, who saw himself as on a mission from God as he killed sixteen women between 2000 and 2001.
6) The night
Language
Persian
Description
When a couple become trapped in a deserted hotel with their young child, disturbing events force them to face the secrets they have from each other.
7) Circumstance
Language
Persian
Description
A provocative coming-of-age story that cracks open the hidden, underground world of Iranian youth culture filled with sex, drugs and defiance. This suspenseful tale of love and defiance unfolds as a wealthy family struggles to contain their teenage daughter's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 4
Language
Persian
Description
Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, capital punishment is carried out according to Islamic law, which gives the family of the victim ownership of the offender's life. Based on a compilation of true stories and shot inside Tehrah's century-old prison, this film revolves around the imminent execution of Mansour, a man found guilty of murder. When the family of the victim repeatedly fails to show up on the appointed day, Mansour's execution is postponed...
Language
Persian
Description
Forensic pathologist Dr. Nariman's car accidentally injures a motorcyclist's eight-year-old son. He offers to take the child to a clinic, but the father refuses his help and his money. A few days later, in the hospital where he works, Dr. Nariman learns that the boy has died under suspicious circumstances. His existential dilemma: is he responsible for the death, or did the child die of another cause, as the autopsy suggests? It's a study in ethical...
10) The night
Language
Persian
Description
A couple becomes trapped inside a hotel with their demons, real and imagined, until they can confront the secrets of their marriage.
11) Third floor
Language
Persian
Description
A police raid on a party in an apartment building causes the partygoers to scatter. One group decides to try and escape the building using bed sheets, which turns into a disaster. One girl remains and manages to crawl to the third floor where she encounters a sleazy child trafficker. Now, she must elude not only the police raid but also the deadly pimp.
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