The skipper goes to the sea with 14 other man to catch fish. However, all execept the skipper are drowned and the people blame the skipper for the death of their dear ones. Meanwhile, Haniyeh, the skipper’s little daughter is paralysed and the skipper and his family leave Tangak for Bushehr…Read More »
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Mina has decided to leave her older husband Morteza after ten years of marriage. Next Monday will be her divorce date, which means her first step towards her goal; immigration. However, the arrival of her older sister, Azar, together with the illness of her mother in law is causing her trouble. To her surprise, meanwhile, she finds out she is pregnant.Read More »
Nazarbazi (the play of glances) is a film about love and desire in post-revolution Iranian cinema, where depictions of intimacy and touch between women and men are prohibited. Images and text come together to manifest the unspeakable and the untouchable, and to summon the current of desire.
After the revolution in 1979, Iran prohibited the depiction of men and women touching onscreen. Since then, directors have relied on every cinematic trick in the book to mirror the ecstatic release of tension through touch – but often it is the game of glances that is enough to set a scene ablaze. Nazarbazi collages these saturated cinematic moments into a poem about love and desire in Iranian film, that also echoes our own time of physical distancing.Read More »
A mother’s courage, hardship, and love, in times of war. In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, Gilane escorts her pregnant daughter, Maygol, from the relative calm of their village, Espili, into war-torn Tehran to search for Maygol’s husband, Rahman. The journey is arduous and what they find when they reach the capital is dismaying and frightening. Fifteen years later, as another war begins in Iraq, Gillane is at home caring for her son Ismael, who suffers from epilepsy, a byproduct of war. As she cares for him, she hopes for a visit from the doctor and from another daughter, Atefah. “Better be a dog than a mother,” she says.Read More »
The Iranian family man Javad is kidnapped by a descendant of Dracula, whose wife has forced him to give up drinking human blood. They become friends, but things go disastrously awry when Javad tries to lessen the vampire’s cravings through the use of drugs.
Starring: Levon Haftvan, Jaleh Sameti, Siamak Ansari, Vishka Asayesh & Reza Attaran.Read More »
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The Traveler is a 1974 Iranian drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami that tells the story of Hassan Darabi, a troublesome, amoral 10-year-old boy in a small Iranian town. He wishes to see the Iran national football team play an important match in Tehran. In order to achieve that, he scams his friends and neighbors. After a number of adventures, he finally reaches Tehran stadium at the time of the match. The film addresses the boy’s determination in his goal and his indifference to the effects of his actions on other people, particularly those who are closest to him. In its element, the film is an examination of human behavior and the balance of right and wrong.Read More »
A government official travels across Iranian Kurdistan on a mission to stop 111 young women from committing suicide. An official selection of the prestigious, award-winning Global Lens Collection presented by the Global Film Initiative. Read More »
