Tag Archives: Iranian cinema

holy crimes (film: Holy Spider – Ali Abbasi, 2022)

Posted on February 12, 2024 by admin

Ali Abbasi, an Iranian director living in Scandinavia for over a decade chose a famous case that happened in Iran in 2000 and 2001 as an opportunity to make in ‘Holy Spider‘ a film that deals with one of the … Continue reading →

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a work of art (film: 24 Frames – Abbas Kiarostami, 2017)

Posted on November 8, 2022 by admin

‘24 Frames‘ is one of those films that, in retrospect, is said to be a testament of a great director. There are enough arguments in favor of this categorization, including the final frame or scene in which we have on … Continue reading →

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beautiful and dark (film: Mantagheye payani / District Terminal – Ehsan Mirhosseini, Bardia Yadegari, 2021)

Posted on September 27, 2021 by admin

‘District Terminal‘ (2021), the Iranian-German co-production written and directed by Ehsan Mirhosseini and Bardia Yadegari, is a film that demands attention and concentration from viewers, but which will reward those who invest their patience and let themselves be absorbed in … Continue reading →

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animated realism (film: Tehran Taboo – Ali Soozandeh, 2017)

Posted on March 13, 2020 by admin

‘Tehran Taboo‘ is a film that could not have been made in Iran today. Its creator, film director and animator Ali Soozandeh lives in exile, and the film was made in Germany and Austria in 2017. The action takes place … Continue reading →

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couple drama in an insecure world (Film: ‘The Salesman’ – Ashgar Farhadi, 2016)

Posted on March 25, 2017 by admin

Films are one good media for taking the pulse of a society at a certain moment in time, for surfacing explicitly or implicitly its problems, for making it known beyond borders of countries or cultures. Iran is a country little … Continue reading →

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