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Travelers (1992)
, 1h38Directed by Bahram Beizai
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Fatemah Motamed-Aria, Homa Rousta, Jamileh Sheykhi, Atila Pesyani, Karim Akbari Mobarakeh
Mahtab, la sœur de Mahrokh, est en route avec son mari et ses deux enfants de la région au bord de la mer Caspienne vers Téhéran pour rapporter le miroir précieux, héritage familial de la nouvelle mariée, à la noce. Sur la route, une villageoise les rejoint dans leur voyage.
Two & Two (2011)
, 7minutesOrigin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Bijan Daneshmand
The film starts when a male teacher comes to the grey classroom. The headmaster says "good morning" and announced a message that there will be ongoing changes in the school, and said that the students' teachers will advise them further. The teacher tells the children that two plus two equals five. He told the children to be silent, otherwise to have order in the classroom. The teacher writes 2 + 2 = 5 on the chalkboard and tells the children to repeat after him, in order to know. A student asked the teacher that two plus two is four, then the teacher said that two plus two was actually five, and told him to sit down and be quiet. The teacher told them to put their notebooks out to write 2 + 2 = 5. While the teacher was saying the expression, another student was saying that two plus two was four. The teacher asked him who gave the student permission to talk, and scolded the student. He was ordering the student to say 2 + 2 = 5 but the student denied. A student was saying 2 + 2 = 4, but the teacher was ordering to face the front. Then, the teacher sent the 3 older students and the older three students said two plus two equals five was true. A student had to stand next to the teacher. The teacher was holding the chalk. When the teacher said to the student that it was his last chance, he cleaned the 5 and replaced it with 4. At the end, the older students started shooting at the classroom and injured the student. An injured student was later taken by the older students. The teacher cleans everything from the chalkboard. A student writes on his notebook 2 + 2 = 5 and then he strikes the 5 and writes the 4 next to the stroken 5.
Football Under Cover (2008)
, 1h26Origin Iran
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Documentary films about sports, Association football films, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Football Under Cover is a documentary directed Ayat Najafi and David Assmann about the real soccer game between the Iranian women’s international football (soccer) team and an amateur female soccer team from Berlin, BSV AL-Dersimspor. Marlene, a member of the Berlin team learns about the Iranian female national team through an Iranian friend named Ayat. From this point on, Ayat and Marlene take on the difficult task of organizing a soccer match between the two teams. Due to the strict rules of Iranian government and society, the Iranian women’s team had never played a game against another team before. Therefore, Marlene convinces her team to travel to Iran with her to help change this.
The Painting Pool (2013)
, 1h43Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Shahab Hosseini, Negar Javaherian, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy
Maryam (Negar Javaherian) and Reza (Shahab Hosseini) try to do their best in life, but are met with several obstacles due to being mentally challenged. Their son Soheil was born without any defects and initially does not realize how his parents differ from other adults until he begins to grow older. This leads to complications when his teachers request that his mother come to school for a parent-teacher conference, as Soheil is afraid that his parents will humiliate him. As a result Soheil spends more and more time with Amirali, his teacher's son, and eventually moves in with them after his father loses his job.
Ten (2002)
, 1h34Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about automobiles, Films about Islam, Road movies
The film is divided into ten scenes, each of which depict a conversation between an unchanging female driver (played by Mania Akbari) and a variety of passengers as she drives around Tehran. Her passengers include her young son (played by Akbari's real life son, Amin Maher), her sister, a bride, a prostitute, and a woman on her way to prayer. One of the major plots during the film is the driver's divorce from her (barely seen) husband, and the conflict that this causes between mother and son.
The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
, 1h55Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Themes Philosophie, Poésie, Vieillesse
Actors Bahman Ghobadi
Behzad, Keyvan, Ali and Jahan who are journalists but pretend to be production engineers arrive in a Kurdish village to document the locals' mourning rituals that anticipate the death of an old woman, but she remains alive. The main engineer is forced to slow down and appreciate the lifestyle of the village.
This Is Not a Film (2011)
, 1h15Directed by Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
Origin Iran
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
Panahi is under house arrest, awaiting the result of his appeal of a six-year prison sentence and twenty-year ban on film-making, leaving the country or giving media interviews for "propaganda against the regime". Bored and desperate that this verdict may mean his artistic death, he starts documenting his life. He begins filming himself in his apartment, then calls his friend and collaborator, Mirtahmasb, who arrives at the apartment and takes over the camera. Banned from film making and determined to save at least some of his artistic visions, Panahi reads some of the scenario from the movie he was planning to make. Upon hearing fireworks marking the ancient Iranian festival Chaharshanbe Suri that precedes the Persian new year, Nouruz, and other suspicious noises resembling gunshots, he gets scared and quickly stops this project. He turns on the TV to hear the news. We see news about the tsunami in Japan and later it is announced that Iran's president has banned any fireworks and bonfires that used to mark Chaharshanbe Suri.
The Circle (2000)
, 1h25Directed by Jafar Panahi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Pregnancy films, Political films
Actors Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy
The film begins in a maternity ward of a hospital, where the mother of Solmaz Gholami is upset to learn that her daughter has just given birth to a girl, even though the ultrasound indicated that the baby would be a boy. Worrying that her in-laws will force their son to divorce her daughter, she tells another daughter to call her uncles.
Crimson Gold (2003)
, 1h37Directed by Jafar Panahi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Mehran Rajabi
The movie opens with a scene inside a jeweler’s shop, which the main character, Hussein, appears to be attempting to rob. Hussein tries to force The Jeweler, to give him the key to the safe at gunpoint. The Jeweler refuses, and manages to trigger the alarm. Hussein then shoots The Jeweler, and, after some deliberation, takes his own life as well. The rest of the movie proceeds to tell Hussein’s story.
The Love-Stricken (1992)
, 1h31Directed by Ali Hatami
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Amin Tarokh, Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz, Akbar Abdi, Jamshid Hashempour, Shahla Riahi, Saeed Poursamimi
His imperial majesty Ahmad Shah Qajar asks a group of Iranian musicians, unaffiliated with the royal court, to record a sample of Persian Classical Music on newly invented gramophone at the Conservatoire de Paris. A group of best musicians gather under the direction of Maestro Delnavaz. A singer named Taher (Amin Tarokh) also accompanies them to the journey to Paris.
Marooned in Iraq (2002)
, 1h48Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, War
Mirza, a famous Kurdish musician, hears that his ex-wife Hanare is in trouble. He, accompanied by his two sons, embarks on an adventurous journey across the Iran-Iraq border to find her.
Captain Khorshid (1987)
, 1h49Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Dariush Arjmand, Ali Nassirian, Saeed Poursamimi
Captain Khorshid is a sailor who although only having one hand, manages to sail his little boat. In his village, due to its hot climate and hard living conditions, dangerous criminals are sent into exile. They want to escape from the area, so they ask a middleman to strike a deal with Khorshid. Khorshid is asked to illegally take them out of the country with his boat. At first he is reluctant, but because of the hardships of living he accepts the job. The criminals murder one of the village's wealthiest merchants and steal the money needed for the trip. At the beginning of the journey the criminals kill the middleman, in the middle of the trip they attack Khorshid and his crewman. The crewman is killed, Khorshid faces them single-handedly. He manages to kill all the criminals, but he himself dies due to the injuries he sustained.
Breath (2016)
, 1h52Directed by Narges Abyar
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Actors Jamshid Hashempour
La petite Bahar vit une vie issue du folklore et des histoires, toujours la tête dans un livre. Mais, grandissant à Yazd dans les années 1970 et 1980, elle est au centre d'un pays en pleine tourmente : le chah est renversé, l'ayatollah Khomeiny prend le pouvoir et les premiers coups de feu sont tirés dans une guerre acharnée et prolongée contre l'Irak. Pendant plusieurs années, Bahar découvre que rêver dans son propre monde imaginaire est la seule façon pour elle de donner un sens à la douleur et à la souffrance infligées par les humains en guerre.
Once Upon a Time, Cinema (1992)
, 1h30Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Origin Iran
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Historical
Actors Ezatollah Entezami, Akbar Abdi, Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz, Mehdi Hashemi, Fatemah Motamed-Aria, Mahaya Petrosian
The film follows a character known as The Cinematographer (Mehdi Hashemi), who is looking for someone called Atieh (Future). As he calls out to her, he is magically transported back in time from the early twentieth century to the reign of Naser al-Din Shah in 19th century Iran. Captured by the Shah's guards, he shows films from the (future) history of Iranian cinema to the Shah (Ezzatolah Entezami). The Shah is entranced and eagerly shows his family the apparently magical medium.
Deep Breath (2003)
, 1h26Directed by Parviz Shahbazi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Maryam Palizban