Overview of articles
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Irreversible Beauty
The artist Malekian makes sculptures and video art. In Irreversible Beauty she records her latest experimental performance.Published on: -
The Load
During the NATO bombardments of 1999, a truck driver has to take a mysterious load to Belgrade. Subtle narrative bursting with menace.Published on: -
Tehran: City of Love
Melancholy and dry humour characterise the stories of three characters looking for love, who don’t fit the norms in Tehran.Published on: -
From Tehran to Heaven
A woman finds a note from her husband on the fridge: I have gone to a place called Heaven. But her fevered search leads her…Published on: -
Women According to Men
Collage of the contradictory, ideologically informed images of women from Iranian films from between 1932 and 1979.Published on: -
Manuscripts Don’t Burn
Two government officials are on a mission to arrest a rebellious writer in this furious indictment of corrupt and murderous acts, in the form of…Published on: -
Fish and Cat
A group of young people camp by a lake and some woods. There’s a restaurant in the village, but how does the owner get his…Published on: -
Filmfarsi
Iranian sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll. Clips from action thrillers and melodramas bring an almost forgotten film industry to life.Published on: -
Just 6.5
Fascinating nail-biter of a police drama about drug dealing in Iran where the number of addicts has increased exponentially in recent years.Published on: -
The First Letter
No one can film running boys the way Jalili can. Humane, poetic, epic and autobiographical: about a boy who grows up in Iran in the…Published on: