Country of Origin: Iran
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Nafas is an Afghan journalist living in Canada when she gets a message from her sister, still living in the place of their birth, pronouncing that come the next solar eclipse she will commit suicide. Nafas decides to make the perilous journey to her home land and find her sister, returning to the veil she had long left behind on her return to a country ravaged by civil war and still under the iron grip of the Taliban. Kandahar is a stunning piece of film making with some breathtaking images. Sho
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Non-religious music is banned in the Mullah's Republic of Iran and this is the recreated story of two brave musicians scouring the underground scene for fellow band members. Together with a hand-held camera we explore the cellars of an alternative Tehran, where the culturally repressed live a forbidden existence and dream of escape to the West.
A top notch personal project from a Kurdish director who, with the two leads, has been forced to flee his homeland. You may not love all the music find out more...
A top notch personal project from a Kurdish director who, with the two leads, has been forced to flee his homeland. You may not love all the music find out more...
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Under Islamic law it's illegal for Iranian females to attend football/soccer matchs, but in this film a number attempt to smuggle themselves into a crucial World Cup qualifier against Bahrain. We follow the fortunes of a group who are caught, placed in a compound inside the stadium and guarded by a group of somewhat unsophisticated male army conscripts. The guards are totally terrified by the red tape of the situation they are in, for example, and most hilariously, when one of the girls needs to
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Stranded in an isolated Iranian outpost a soldier struggles to provide his life with some event in an increasingly hopeless attempt to stop the days from drifting away aimlessly. So excluded from the outside world is he that Election Day catches him completely off guard, a state of confusion compounded by the idealistic young government official, whom he must escort on a vote-finding mission, being a woman. Secret Ballot is a delightful satire, humane, intelligent, perceptive and with moments of
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Two children, a brother and sister, rescue a stray dog on the streets of Kabul. That evening they visit the jail where their mother is a prisoner and, since her children have nowhere to live, they are permitted to stay with her one night, but the following morning they are thrown out, prison being for prisoners not homeless orphans. Desperate to return to the jail brother and sister attempt a series of robberies, but each seems doomed to failure until a stranger offers an unusual solution, the m
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Highly acclaimed tale of a man who's tired of living, which won the Palme D'Or at Cannes, 1997. Mr Badii cruises villages and the desert hills offering highly paid work to carefully selected young men, but his motive is not sexual, he is looking for someone to assist in his death and then bury him, suicide being forbidden to Muslims, and his final accomplice demands to know why Mr Badii wants so badly to die. How he can give up such joys of nature as the taste of cherries? Beautifully and though
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Certification12
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Certification12
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Three disenchanted characters: an ex-champion bodybuilder, an overweight beauty clinic secretary and a dispirited religious singer, yearn for love and connection in Tehran. Iranian writer-director Ali Jaberansari's bittersweet tale about searching for romantic fulfilment in contemporary Tehran cuts between three disillusioned middle-aged individuals: an overweight salon rec find out more...
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For those familiar with Kiarostami's work, ‘Ten' comes as an accomplishment of previous themes as well as a surprise in changing the gender perspective (female instead of male). The quest for social insight, inner balance and fitting within one's own destiny is seen this time from the angle of a self-liberated woman, hence offering a psychological foray that adds an unexpected sense of satire and unselfishness to Kiarostami's favourite subject: the search for identity.
Meanwhile, for those wh
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Based on a true incident, two sisters living in Tehran are kept in a state of virtual imprisonment by their uneducated father and blind mother. The father finds himself under increasing pressure to allow the girls to experience life beyond the confines of their own home and, fortunately, through the clever tactics of a social worker, the reclusive family is gradually brought out into contact with the real world The Apple is a charming story, as simple as it is odd, with a natural beauty and gen
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The scene is contemporary Iran and the lives of a small circle of Iranian women living within the oppressive constraints of their strictly Islamic nation where the Koran has been subverted to the will of a male dominated society. It is through their anguish, anger and despair that we witness their strength and resilience in the face of a world that denies them respect as individuals and equality as women. 'The Circle' is a powerful and moving film, beautifully shot and emotionally gripping.
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Mohammad, a boy at Tehran's institute for the blind, waits for his dad to pick him up for summer vacation. While waiting, he realizes a baby bird has fallen from its nest, he chases away a cat, finds the bird, climbs a tree, and puts it back. His father finally comes and takes him to their village where his sisters and granny await. The lad is a loving student of nature and longs for village life with his family, but his father is ashamed of him, wanting to farm the boy out to clear the way for
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Three beautifully observed and shot stories of the basic problems facing many women within Eastern societies. The first tale sees nine year old Hava having to put away her childhood and accept her role as a woman. In the second story Ahoo is a free spirited woman with a love for cycling whom finds herself under increasing pressure from husband and family to give up the 'unbecoming' hobby. Third is an old lady who becomes obsessed with material goods, determined that her last abode in this world
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Winner of the Grand Jury prize at the 1999 Venice film festival, 'The Wind Will Carry Us' is a poetic interpretation of life and death, modern and traditional, local and global, rural and urban, devotion and rootlessness and the mystery of the mundane. It is intriguing and illuminating.
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A gentle, visually stunning love story set in rural Iran. A film crew arrives in an earthquake ravaged village to make a movie and, amongst others, gives a small part to young, jobless Hossain, who, to his delight, is cast opposite the girl he adores and who sees his chance to win her hand. As well as being a romance, a comment on rural life and on the ability of people to survive a devastating disaster, this is a film about the making of a film, Abbas Kiarostami's earlier 'And Life Goes On', (w
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