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Life, and Nothing More… (1992)
, 1h31Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about historical events, Disaster films
A film director and his son start a journey towards Koker, where approximately half of Where is My Friend's House? took place. During the first half, they search for a highway to the village, as most of the roads have been damaged or blocked by a severe earthquake two years prior; meanwhile, the two cross paths with several locals (who were also witnesses of the earthquake) and often ask directions.
The Deer (1974)
, 2hDirected by Masoud Kimiai
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Behrouz Vossoughi, Parviz Fannizadeh (پرویز فنیزاده), Saeid Pirdoost
Seyed (Behrouz Vossoughi) est un toxicomane qui effectue de petits boulots dans un théâtre pour subvenir à sa forte dépendance. Un jour, il reçoit la visite d'un vieil ami, Ghodrat (Faramarz Gharibian), pour qui il était un modèle et un protecteur à l'adolescence. La police vient de tirer sur Ghodrat lors d'un vol à main armée qui a mal tourné et il cherche un endroit sûr où dormir provisoirement. Par conséquent, il se réfugie chez la seule personne en qui il peut avoir confiance, Seyed. Cependant, il se rend compte que le Seyed qu'il connaissait est bien loin de l'actuel Seyed. Bien qu'ils soient tous deux heureux de se retrouver après tant d'années, Ghodrat est complètement choqué de voir Seyed, autrefois responsable des cours dans une école secondaire du quartier, devenu toxicomane et vivant dans un tel état de délabrement physique et social.
The Glass Agency (1998)
, 1h54Directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Parviz Parastui, Reza Kianian, Habib Rezaei
Two veterans of Iran-Iraq war, Abbas and his wartime commander Kazem are the main protagonists of the film. Abbas comes to Tehran to seek medical treatment for a war injury. Kazem wants to help Abbas as the doctor recommends that he should go abroad for the operation. However, it is almost New Year's Eve, and arranging a flight becomes difficult. The problems they encounter make Kazem loose his temper, and he ends up taking a whole travel agency hostage.
Baran (2001)
, 1h34Directed by Majid Majidi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Reza Naji, Christopher Maleki
It is winter in Teheran. Lateef is 17. He works at a building construction site managed by MEMAR, the site foreman. Lateef's job is to serve tea and prepare food for the workers with whom he is always quarrelling. The workers come from all parts of Iran, particularly from Iranian Azerbaijan (Azeris are referred as "Turks" in the film). Some workers are Afghan refugees from war-torn Afghanistan. They have no identity cards and are employed illegally as cheap labour. When the labour inspectors show up, the Afghan workers must hide.
Here Without Me (2012)
, 1h30Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Saber Abar, Negar Javaherian, Fatemah Motamed-Aria, Parsa Piroruzfar
Based on The Glass Menagerie, the movie details the story of Yalda (Negar Javaherian), a disabled girl who has a great interest for collecting glass animals and harbors a secret attraction towards her brother Ehsan's best friend Reza (Parsa Pirouzfar). Her brother Ehsan (Saber Abar), whose voiceover introduces the film, writes poetry and desperately dreams of leaving Iran. He dreams of being a writer and spends his spare time haunting cinemas and watching old movies over and over. Farideh (Fatemeh Motamed-Aria) holds down two jobs to help support her family. Farideh is the only member of the family who interacts with the brutal conditions of Iran and willingly takes the challenge. Farideh is probably the most altered of Williams' characters (Amanda) in the original play.
The House Is Black (1963)
, 20minutesDirected by Forough Farrokhzad
Origin Iran
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about health care
Actors Forough Farrokhzad
Une vision poetique de la vie des lepreux de Babadaghi, leproserie de Tabriz.
Homework (1989)
, 1h26Directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
Origin Iran
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about education
Actors Abbas Kiarostami
The films consists almost exclusively of interviews with a number of pupils and two fathers of pupils at Shahid Masumi school who are asked to give their opinion on the traditional teaching practice of assigning homework. Issues such as some parents' illiteracy and their inability to help their children with the homework are raised. The children don't always succeed in hiding the more embarrassing aspects of their family life (corporal punishment, poverty, etc.).
Taste of Cherry (1997)
, 1h39Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Themes Films about suicide, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Homayoun Ershadi, Homayoun Ershadi
Mr Badii (Homayon Ershadi), a middle-aged man, drives through Tehran looking for someone to do a job for him, and he offers a large amount of money in return. During his drives with prospective candidates, Badii reveals that he plans to kill himself and has already dug the grave. He needs someone to throw earth on his body, after his death. He does not discuss why he wants to commit suicide.
A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
, 1h20Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, War
An Iranian Kurdish family is trying to survive after the death of its parents. Ayoub, the eldest boy in the family, becomes the head of the household and must do whatever work available to survive. Madi, Ayoub's handicapped brother, is in need of a medical operation. Ayoub goes to great lengths to collect money for the operation by smuggling truck tires with a group of Kurdish villagers near the Iran-Iraq border. Ayoub ultimately falls short of his intended goal and his uncle decides to marry off his sister in return for the groom's family financing Madi's operation on the Iraqi side of the border. When they arrive the mother of the groom refuses to accept Madi and agrees to give Ayoub and his uncle a mule as compensation. Ayoub decides to take the mule to Iraq where it is worth more, and sell it to pay for his brother's surgery. Some smugglers let him come along with him. They use mules to carry goods and feed them liquor allowing them to better survive the harsh mountain winter. But they are ambushed while heading to the border, and the horses are too drunk to carry on. Ayoub narrowly manages to escape, and the last shot is of him and his brother crossing the border.
Through the Olive Trees (1994)
, 1h43Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about films, Philosophie
Actors Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz, Hossein Jafarian, Jafar Panahi, Abbas Kiarostami
Hossein Rezai plays a local stonemason-turned-actor. Outside the set of a film in which he is acting, he makes a marriage proposal to his leading lady, a student named Tahereh, who was orphaned by an earthquake. Because he is poor and illiterate, the girl's family finds his offer insulting; the girl avoids him as a result. She continues evading him even when they are filming, as she seems to have trouble grasping the difference between her role in the film and her real-life self. The fictional couple takes part in what would be the filming of Life, and Nothing More....
Killing Mad Dogs (2001)
, 2h25Directed by Bahram Beizai
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Mozhdeh Shamsai, Reza Kianian, Dariush Arjmand, Mitra Hajjar, Hasan Pourshirazi
A businessman in late-1980s Tehran, Nasser Moasser, discovers that his partner has been laundering money and flees the city with the police on his trail. One year later, his wife, Golrokh Kamali, returns from a long absence to find that her husband is gone and that she has been left to resolve his many debts. Eventually, she meets with her husband’s old partner, Javad Moghadam, and learns the truth about his disappearance.
The Tenants (1987)
, 2h10Directed by Dariush Mehrjui
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Ezatollah Entezami, Hamideh kheirabadi, Akbar Abdi
The film is about an apartment in Tehran and its various tenants.
The Runner (1984)
, 2hDirected by Amir Naderi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Amiro est un jeune orphelin qui grandit dans la ville pétrolière iranienne d'Abadan. Pour survivre, il travaille, et multiplie les petits métiers. Avec d'autres enfants des rues, il court, après des trains, dans la ville. Lui aime aussi appeler au loin les bateaux, en les suppliant de le prendre à bord, et les avions qui s'envolent. Amiro se rend compte que pour parvenir à exaucer ses rêves, il faut qu'il aille à l'école.