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A Time For Drunken Horses (2001)
For Kurdish children Ameneh, Ayoub and Madi, life is hard. Their mother is dead and their father is often away from home trying to earn the money to keep his family. During these ...
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The Colour Of Paradise (1999)
The Color of Paradise is a fable of both a simple child's innocence and a complex look at faith and humanity.
Visually magnificent and wrenchingly moving, the film tells of the ...
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Shirin (2008)
Abbas Kiarostami is widely regarded as one of the most important, ambitious and rewarding filmmakers at work today. With Shirin, he continues to explore the potential of cinema, ...
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Kandahar (2001)
Nafas, a young Afghan journalist now living in Canada receives a desperate letter from her sister in Afghanistan who intends to kill herself at the next solar eclipse. Nafas ...
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At Five In The Afternoon (aka Panj e Asr) (2003)
The latest film by internationally acclaimed young Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf is the first to be made in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban regime. Set in the ...
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Secret Ballot (2001)
Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Babak Payami looks at the problems of bringing democracy to Iran. The film begins with a ballot box being dropped from an airplane onto a desert island ...
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Osama (2003)
The Taliban have just seized power and a widow reluctantly decides to disguise her 12-year-old daughter as a boy - the Osama of the title - so that at least one family member can ...
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Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (2008)
A poetic look at how violence and tragedy shape the lives and minds of children, from Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf, daughter of acclaimed director Mohsen, sister of Samira and ...
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Stray Dogs (aka Sag-haye velgard) (2004)
Marziyeh Meshkini's beautifully crafted and moving insight into post-Taliban Afghanistan follows the fortunes of a young brother and sister and the dishevelled dog they rescue ...
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Baghban
'Baghban' is the story of Raj Malhotra and his family - his wife Pooja and his four sons. Just like a gardener (BAGHBAN) who plants a tree and nurses it in the hope that he would ...
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Close Up (1990)
A brilliant exploration of the power of movies, Close-Up reconstructs the true story of a cinephile's attempt to become a filmmaker he admires. Hossein Sabzian introduces himself ...
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Blackboards (2000)
In the brutal mountains of the Iran/Iraq border, two nomadic teachers, Reeboir and Said, roam the landscape in search of pupils. They carry their blackboards on their backs, ...
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Taste Of Cherry (aka Le Gout de la Cerise) (1997)
Winner of the Palme D'Or at Cannes 1997, 'Taste Of Cherry' is a deep philosophical study about a man who is so tired of life that he wants to commit suicide. Cruising the ...
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The Apple (1997)
'The Apple' is the haunting first feature by Samira Makhmalbaf, the daughter of Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, when she was just seventeen. Based on a true incident and ...
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The Day I Became A Woman (aka Roozi ke zan shodam) (2000)
Marziyeh Meshkini's compelling and poignant study of the elementary problems faced by women in Eastern societies looks at three different generations in a triptych of subtle, ...
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Crimson Gold (2003)
Pizza delivery agent Hussein struggles to find his place in a complex and contradictory modern Islamic Iran
Masterfully directed by Jafar Panahi, 'Crimson Gold' shows a very ...
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Offside (2006)
For a soccer-mad young girl, a crucial world cup qualifying match for Iran`s national football team at the Azadi stadium in Tehran is the game of her dreams. But with women banned ...
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The Circle (aka Dayereh) (2000)
Set over the course of a single day, Jafar Panahi's powerful film is an ensemble piece that tells the stark tales of several young Iranian women and the harsh society in which ...
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Ten (2002)
A perceptive and revealing portrait of contemporary Iran set in Tehran, 'Ten' begins with a beautiful and articulate female driver picking up her young son from school. After ...
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Half Moon (2006)
Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ...
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The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
Palme d'Or winning-director Abbas Kiarostami's acclaimed film documents the arrival of an engineer and his colleagues from Tehran in a remote village in Iranian Kurdistan. Assumed ...
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It's Winter (aka Zemestan) (2006)
It's Winter" begins as a man leaves his wife and daughter in Tehran to search for work abroad. Months pass and the family hear no word from him. Meanwhile a stranger arrives in ...
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Joy Of Madness (2003)
Joy of Madness is the first feature film by 14-year-old Hana Makhmalbaf. Shot on digital video, the film follows Hana's older sister, Samira, as she makes her latest film, At Five ...
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House Is Black (aka Khaneh siah ast ) (1963)
Forugh Farrokhzad presents a haunting and sympathetic examination of life in a Tabriz leper colony. Through powerful imagery and a striking voice-over by Farrokhzad, a startling ...
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