The story happens during the era [in Iran], which has called the decade of Golden Freedoms. It describes the life of an intellectual politician (Dr. Adiban) who tries to change the system of feudalism in a small town.
More than two decades after making his highly acclaimed film, The Garden of Stones, the director, Parviz Kimiavi once more turns his camera to the deaf and mute shepherd and his arcane collection. Darvish Khan is now an aged man who still takes after the garden of Stones set up over so many years. The film charts the life of Darvish Khan with his son and daughter-in-law and the...
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The emergence of the Coronavirus disease in late 2019 and its rapid spread throughout the world in 2020 made an indelible impact upon countless lives, transforming so many in a multitude of ways. This profoundly personal narrative details the efforts of a documentary filmmaker to portray the lives of six characters in quarantine and how it affects them. There is also the filmma...
Prominent filmmaker, artist and actress Mania Akbari reclaims her body—and that of all the other women in Iranian film. Using almost a hundred excerpts spanning Iran's film history, from the silent era to just after the Islamic Revolution—films that have all since been banned—she tells a story of liberation, exploitation, emancipation and ultimately oppression.
Dancing women, w...
The Swedish-Iranian filmmaker Nahid Persson is known for uncompromisingly critical films about her native country. In her latest documentary, she focuses on the Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam.
Like many of his colleagues, Zam operates from abroad, in his case France, due to the lack of press freedom in Iran. Drawing on secret sources and anonymous video footage, and constantly...
The revolution had triumphed: in January 1979, the Shah had to leave Iran. Then the ayatollah took power. In Polish August 1980, the Solidarno union formed and changed the country with their strikes. The ascent followed the decline. Andreas Hoessli was a research fellow in Poland at that time. He met the reporter legend Ryszard Kapuciński. Because of his contacts he was also...
