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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

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  • Les beaux lendemains de Téhéran

    Film about a French film crew making a report about the reforms in Iran. Emotional encounter between the presenter and an old student friend. Many…
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  • Secret Ballot

    Light and absurd, beautifully stylised comedy in which a resolute election official and a grumpy soldier have to go hunting votes on an Iranian desert
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  • Under the Moonlight

    This farce is in no sense a religious film, though it is imbued with spirituality. The first time the Iranian cinema addresses the self-enclosed world
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  • The Hidden Half

    Clear and gripping drama set at the start of the Iranian revolution. Milani was imprisoned after the film came out on suspicion of having ‘anti-revolu
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  • Under the Skin of the City

    Sympathetic, realistic drama offers heart-warming and hopeful insight into contemporary Iran. Tuba, a hard-working female factory worker with three gr
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  • A.B.C. Africa

    The Iranian master Kiarostami travelled to Kampala, Uganda with two DV cameras to research a documentary about AIDS and the 1.6 million orphans in the
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  • Baran

    Realistic and romantic Iranian drama that looks at the situation of Afghan refugees in Iran. On a building site in Teheran, a burly building labourer
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  • Arus

    “Macbeth” meets “Romeo and Juliet” in this stinging portrait of rigid marriage rituals in Iran’, Variety wrote about this impressive Iranian drama which tackles themes…
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  • En het leven gaat door

    In 1990 two earthquakes destroyed large areas of Northern Iran. Forty thousand people died and fifty thousand were wounded. It was in this same region…
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  • Apartment No.13

    Masha’allah Iranmanesh, who lives in Kerman, inherits an apartment in Tehran. He decides to sell it to buy a shop in Kerman and get married.…
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