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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Det Means Girl

    This poetic and experimental film written and directed by Jalili focuses on the teenage Schawan, factory guard and caterer. With its innovative narrat
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  • Don

    Jalili’s most mature film is a very social indictment, in which children earn money for their parents. Don is nine and doesn’t have a birth…
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  • Een school weggeblazen door de wind

    Drama short by the versatile Iranian film master Makhmalbaf about an old man’s visit to a nomadic government school.
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  • Dayereh mina

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  • Yek dastan-e vaghe’i

    The director plays himself as a film-maker looking for a suitable kid to play in his next film. When the ideal boy turns out to…
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  • Nun va goldun

    As a young Islamic revolutionary, the film-maker once attacked a policeman. Years later, the cop wants to be a film actor. Together they act out…
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  • Gabbeh

    Life and stories of a Northern Iranian tribe, portrayed symbolically and lyrically by versatile talent Makhmalbaf – Critic’s Choice by Mark Duursma, D
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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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  • Postchi

    Parable, loosely based on Büchner’s Woyzeck. Vet experiments with impotent postman.
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  • Be tartib ya bedun-e tartib

    Didactic film about the advantages of order for which chaos has to be counterfeited. See also 5th Serge Daney Lecture.
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