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Ballad of Tara
Ballad of Tara (1979)

Directed by Bahram Beizai
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Actors Susan Taslimi, Reza Babak, Mohammad Poursattar

Une veuve, Tara (Susan Taslimi), est sur le chemin de retour à sa cabane avec ses deux petits enfants (Golbahar Eslami, Ghorbanali Falahi). Toujours en chemin, elle entend que son grand-père est décédé. Sur la route, Tara voit passer un guerrier du temps ancien (Manouchehr Farid).
The Cycle
The Cycle (1978)
, 1h41
Directed by Dariush Mehrjui
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Ezatollah Entezami, Ali Nassirian

Téhéran. Le destin tragique d'un vieillard, misérable et gravement malade, essayant d'être admis, avec l'aide de son fils, Ali, dans un des hôpitaux les plus modernes de la capitale. Aux portes de l'hôpital, un homme en voiture leur propose de gagner un peu d'argent. Il les conduit ensuite vers un camion rempli de clochards et de drogués donnant leur sang. L'homme qui se livre à cette opération touche une commission. Au cours d'une réunion du personnel de l'hôpital, un médecin dénonce le sang contaminé fourni à longueur d'année et qui provoque la mort des patients. Ali se livre, à présent, à un fructueux trafic. En même temps, son père décède suite à de pénibles souffrances.
Abadan
Abadan (2004)
, 1h23
Directed by Mani Haghighi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Jamshid Mashayekhi, Fatemah Motamed-Aria, Hedieh Tehrani

Amir has always wished to travel to Abadan and now in his elderly days he wants to materialise his wish, but before doing so he needs to return a package to a friend. In this process he goes missing. Marjan, a middle-aged, middle-class Tehran resident and Amir's daughter, is distraught when her father goes missing. She goes to see her estranged husband, Aman, who reluctantly agrees to look for Amir, while Marjan watches over Aman's house, which is being renovated. Aman enlists the aid of his old friend, Atta, and the two drive off in search of Amir, who presumably took off to find an old friend whom he seems to have forgotten died years earlier.
Writing on the City
Writing on the City (2018)
, 1h
Directed by Keywan Karimi
Origin Iran
Genres Documentary

Au moment de la révolution iranienne, point de rupture dans l’histoire politique du pays, les portraits de Khomeini et Shariati couvrent progressivement les murs de la ville de Téhéran. La grande diversité des slogans a teinté la ville de nouvelles couleurs. Puis la guerre Iran-Irak a éclaté. Les images de martyrs, de chefs militaires et de héros ayant bravé la mort ont tapissé la ville. Ses murs sont devenus le thermomètre social et politique de la société iranienne. Un nouvel espace d’expression publique était né, mais un espace paradoxal. D’un art contestataire, les graffitis sont devenus un art officiel, faisant alors naître toute une pratique clandestine…
Taxi
Taxi (2015)
, 1h22
Directed by Jafar Panahi
Origin Iran
Genres Documentary
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles, Films about capital punishment, Road movies
Actors Jafar Panahi

Le réalisateur Jafar Panahi, se faisant passer pour un chauffeur du nom d'Aghayé Panahi (en persan : آقای پناهی, Mr. Panahi) se trouve au volant d’un taxi partagé dans la capitale iranienne de Téhéran dans lequel il a installé une caméra. Cette caméra filme une succession d’archétypes iraniens variés qui prennent tous place à bord du taxi, les personnages étant plus ou moins conscients du stratagème orchestré par le cinéaste. Hommes ou femmes, jeunes ou vieux, riches ou pauvres, traditionalistes ou modernistes, aussi bien vendeur de vidéos pirates que défenseur des droits de l'homme, tous se retrouvent tour à tour dans le véhicule. Chaque personnage propose un portrait iranien spécifique et est également porteur d’un thème de société. Le film se termine par le vol de la caméra du taxi.
Muhammad: The Messenger of God
Muhammad: The Messenger of God (2015)
, 2h58
Directed by Majid Majidi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about Islam
Actors Mahdi Pakdel, Amin Tarokh, Sareh Bayat, Rana Azadivar, Dariush Farhang

Le récit se déroule au cours du vie siècle et tourne autour du prophète de l'islam Muhammad, de sa naissance à l'âge de 13 ans.
Low Heights
Low Heights (2002)
, 2h
Directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Actors Hamid Farokhnezhad, Leila Hatami, Reza Shafiei Jam, Gohar Kheirandish, Amir Aghaei

Ghasem (Hamid Farokhnezhad) with his wife, Narges (Leila Hatami), his mother and other relatives and parents take a flight to Bandar Abbas, Iran, to get hired in an industrial company. Since the conditions of work and life are hardly satisfactory, everyone accepts the invitation with pleasure. Narges (Leila Hatami) is the only one who knows the true intention of her husband. Once the plane takes off and flies in the sky, Ghasem (Hamid Farokhnezhad) out a gun, disarms sole custody in the plane, the pilot goal threat of hacking and requires a change of destination to Dubai. At a time when the attacker and his accomplices are concerned about a conflict between them, the second security guard, loop the pirate by surprise maneuver him out of the gun. As the plane takes its way to the destination country, new pirates succeed, a maneuver conducted by Narges (Leila Hatami) to grab the gun and redirect the plane to Dubai. Shortage of fuel, the plane ends up crashing into the water in the middle of nowhere.
Offside
Offside (2006)
, 1h28
Directed by Jafar Panahi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Documentary
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Sports films, Association football films, Political films

Most of the characters in the film are not named. A girl disguises herself as a boy to go attend the 2006 World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Bahrain. She travels by bus with a group of male fans, some of whom notice her gender, but do not tell anyone. At the stadium, she persuades a reluctant ticket tout to sell her a ticket; he only agrees to do so at an inflated price. The girl tries to slip through security, but she is spotted and arrested. She is put in a holding pen on the stadium roof with several other women who have also been caught; the pen is frustratingly close to a window onto the match, but the women are at the wrong angle to see it.
Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame
Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (2007)
, 1h21
Directed by Hana Makhmalbaf
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, War, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about education, Feminist films, Political films
Actors Nikbakht Noruz

Le film s'ouvre sur des images d'archives en noir et blanc des statues géantes des Bouddhas de Bâmiyân, puis de leur explosion.
Border Café
Border Café (2005)
, 1h45
Directed by Kambuzia Partovi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Parviz Parastui, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy

À la mort de son époux, Ryhan, une jeune femme iranienne, refuse de suivre la tradition locale qui lui impose de se marier avec son beau-frère.
The Day I Became a Woman
The Day I Became a Woman (2000)
, 1h18
Directed by Marzieh Meshkini
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Comedy

The film tells three different stories about women struggling for identity in Iran.