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20 FINGERS
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First-time director Mania Akbari explores the heartbreak and joy of romantic relationships through the stories of seven couples searching for happiness. Comprising seven vignettes, the film features the same two actors in each episode, each time as different characters whose problems unfold in conversations, quarrels, and altercations. Some issues are universal--jealousy, adultery, abortion. Others reveal the personal hardships and political realities exclusive to modern-day Iran, and especially for women. Simultaneously wrenching and uplifting, private and universal, 20 Fingers reveals a director on the cutting edge of filmmaking in her country. Received the Cinema Digitale Award at the Venice International Film Mania Akbari---Iran---2004---72 mins.
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ALONE IN TEHRAN- PP
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Contrasting the day-to-day concerns of the real world with the pursuit of dreams and ambitions, this exceptional documentary follows a young, aspiring actress in Tehran. Desiring to live a carefree and creative lifestyle, this 24-year-old struggles with the pressures of being a single woman, living alone in contemporary Iran. In Farsi with English subtitles. Pirooz Kalantari---Iran---1999---25 mins.
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AT FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON
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The first film made in post-Taliban Afghanistan, Samira Makhmalbaf's haunting drama tells the story of Nogreh (Aghele Rezaie), a young woman eager to take full advantage of the new opportunities afforded to women - particularly the possibility of becoming Afghanistan's first female president. Unfortunately Nogreh's aspirations don't match the violent and uncertain conditions of a country, still reeling from the devastations of war. A sobering examination of the difficulties--and dreams--that accompany reconstruction. In Farsi with Samira Makhmalbaf---Iran/France---2004---106 mins.
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BANOO/ THE LADY
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Dariush Mehrjui (The Cow, The Cycle) directs this claustrophobic film about a woman living a solitary life while her husband is away. Her life turns around when she finds out that her husband is having an affair. Newly liberated, she begins to experience life for the first time. In Farsi with Dariush Mehrjui---Iran---1992---113 mins.
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BARAN
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A moving love story about a young Iranian construction worker and his rival, an immigrant laborer from Afghanistan...who turns out to be a teenage girl.
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BASHU THE LITTLE STRANGER
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Ten-year-old Bashu (Adnan Afravian) is orphaned when his Persian Gulf village is bombed. Hiding in the back of a truck, he is taken north around the Caspian Sea, where he jumps off. The people in this alien land take a dislike to the little stranger and deride his skin and accent. Nai (Susan Taslimi), a woman whose husband is away, finds the boy and accepts him as her own son. "A pure joy in which there are absolutely no false moves" (Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times). In Farsi with English subtitles. Bahram Beyzai---Iran---1990---120 mins.
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BLACK MIRRORS: FOROUGH FARROKHZAD
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Forough Farrokhzad's only film, The House Is Black, is offered alongside Nasser Saffarian's The Mirror of the Soul .
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BLACK TAPE
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Subtitled The Videotape Fariborz Kambari Found in the Garbage, the tape referred to in this banned Iranian film contains grainy images of a young woman named Galavije. She chronicled her daily life spent in fear of an abusive, older husband. The narrative follows the trajectory of her taped confessionals, and we learn her domestic keeper is involved with the military, that she's pregnant, and that she's in danger. In Farsi and Kurdish with Fariborz Kamkari---Iran---2002---83 mins.
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BLACKBOARDS
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Samira Makhmalbaf follows the desperate plight of a group of nomadic teachers who travel the mountainous Kurdistan region of Iran searching for students.
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BORDER CAFE
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After the death of her husband, an independent young woman (Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy) decides to take over his truck stop eatery, knowing full well that Iranian custom requires she stay hidden in the kitchen. Her life is further complicated when two men, her conservative brother-in-law and a kindly Greek trucker, take and interest in her company. "Orafaei's approach to her character isn't as a doomed woman, but as a survivor. It's a performance that burns steadily and quietly, with few explosions, and helps steer the film away from emotional excess" (Variety). From the screenwriter of The Circle. In Farsi, Greek, Turkish and Russian with English subtitles. Kambuzia Partovi---Iran---2005---105 mins.
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BORN UNDER LIBRA
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This romantic drama made headlines in Iran when its director was kidnapped by arch-conservatives and left to die in the desert. (He was later rescued.) The story follows Daniel, who is in love with fellow university student Mahtab, whose father is campaigning for segregated classes at the university. Daniel's association with an ultra-religious group and Mahtab's sympathies with the reformists push the couple further apart. After his love letter to Mahtab is made public, the couple flees Tehran for the countryside, but their attempt to return to the city is a nightmare through a dangerous wasteland. With Mohammad Reza Farutan. In Farsi with English subtitles. Ahmad Reza Darvish---Iran---2000---95 mins.
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BOUTIQUE
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Hamid Nematollah's compelling drama "stakes out a new path for Iranian cinema" (Variety) as it exposes key problems plaguing modern-day Tehran. Johan is a gentle and thoughtful young man who works as a window dresser at a fashionable boutique. When a poor and very beautiful young girl enters his store, Johan feels compelled to steal a pair of blue jeans for her. This action triggers a downward spiral that will change Johan's life forever. "Painfully real and engaging" (Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times). In Hamid Nematollah---Iran---2004---115 mins.
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BUDDHA: COLLAPSED OUT OF SHAME
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The debut fiction film from Iranian filmmaker Hana Makhmalbaf, sister of Samira and daughter of Mohsen, is imbued with her clan's eye for visual poetry and concern for human dignity. It tells the allegorical tale of a six-year old girl living in the Afghan town of Bamian. Amidst the rubble of Buddha statues still left by the Taliban in 2001, the girl grapples with a conflict that practically comes as a birthright to Western children--she wants to go to school. "A deeply affecting but wholly unaffected picture, truthful and unsentimental" (Philip French, Observer). Winner of the Crystal Bear and the Peace Film Award at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival. In Farsi with English Hana Makhmalbaf---Iran---2007---77 mins.
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CAFE SETAREH
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Cafe Setareh focuses on three women--Fariba, Saloomeh, and Moluk--in a triptych of warm-hearted, interwoven stories set in contemporary Tehran. Fariba operates a cafe, while her alcoholic, unemployed husband sponges off her; Saloomeh debates whether to marry Ebi, whose one good deed doesn't make up for his mean, controlling streak; and Moluk, a middle-aged landlady, pines for a man who has problems of his own. Directed by talented newcomer Saman Moghadam (Maxx). "Subtle, affectionately humorous and poignant...a classic woman's picture" (Los Angeles Times). In Persian with English subtitles. Saman Moghadam---Iran---2005---102 mins.
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CHARLATAN
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One of Iran's hottest young filmmakers, actor-director Arash Moayerian (editor on Friday's Soldiers), spins a bittersweet tale of romance in this delightful comedy about two young couples whose lives and dreams are intertwined after a fateful close encounter. Moayerian and star Amin Hayayee (The Intruder) reteam after their successful collaboration in Koma. The pair are joined by a cast of rising stars of Iranian cinema, including Leila Boushehri, recently hailed for her performance in Dead He at Under the Shrub. In Farsi with English subtitles. Arash Moayerian---Iran---2004---98 mins,
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CHILDREN OF HEAVEN
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A delightful, heartwarming tale from Iran, beautiful in its simplicity and deeply in touch with the feelings and insecurities of childhood. When a young boy loses his sister's only pair of shoes, they hatch a plan to share his shoes and keep his negligence a secret from their parents. "Children of Heaven is fraught with delicious irony, and the unaffected performances from its sad-eyed pair of non-actors in lead roles lend the film its understated poetry" (Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post). In Farsi wit h Majid Majidi---Iran---1997---83 mins.
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COLOR OF PARADISE, THE
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From the director of Children of Heaven comes this beautiful, heartfelt motion picture about a blind boy who becomes an apprentice to a carpenter.
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CORRUPTED HANDS
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Marriage is supposed to be a celebration, but it's a criminal enterprise for two of the characters in this Iranian heist comedy. Reminiscent of Take the Money and Run and Raising Arizona, Syrus Alvand's film follows Siamak, a wedding photographer who plans to rob his next ceremony with the help of his siblings. Unbeknownst to Siamak, his own father-in-law-to-be has enlisted a hood named Bad Nasser to tail him, and of course Nasser wants in on the loot. In Farsi with English subtitles. Syrus Alvand---Iran---2000---100 mins.
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COW, THE (MEHRJUI)
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A fascinating glimpse into the rural life of the Iranian people.
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CYCLE, THE (DAYEREH MINA)
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Banned for three years, Dariush Mehrjui's Iranian New Wave masterpiece went on to win critical acclaim and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1978 Berlin Film Festival.
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