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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • The Pot and the Oak

    Borzoo, a not-so-successful playwright, writes a play about his marriage. He wrestles with finding a satisfactory ending, whereas the marriage itself
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  • The Brick and the Mirror

    Classic precursor to Iranian New-Wave films from the1960s and 1970s, in which a taxi driver gets a baby dumped on him after the mother disappears…
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  • A Simple Story, Mine, Yours and M’s

    The director, who was born in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war, works out her personal history. Painful, yet not sentimental.
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  • Paradise

    Filming without permission, in his feature debut Ataeian Dena focuses on life as a working woman in Iran. In doing so, he shows how intimidation…
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  • Radio Dreams

    It’s a big day for the little radio station Pars Radio, broadcasting in Persian from San Francisco: Metallica is going to jam in the studio…
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  • Remembering the Pentagons

    Sensual, lyrical depiction of the filmmaker’s earliest memories of the overwhelming smells and colours of Iran.
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  • The Cow

    Groundbreaking, deeply moving Iranian New Wave film in which a farmer takes the place of his lost cow. Astounding camerawork.
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  • Today

    A taxi driver unexpectedly becomes the most important person in the life of a very pregnant woman who gets into his taxi in a panic.…
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  • Postchi

    Parable, loosely based on Büchner’s Woyzeck. Vet experiments with impotent postman.
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  • Stardust-Stricken, Portrait of Mohsen Makhmalbaf

    The energetic and idiosyncratic film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf is followed by his portrayer on a journey through his recalcitrant oeuvre.
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