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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Namay-e nazdik

    Classic film about a fanatical film-lover who pretends to be director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. See also Close Up Long Shot.
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  • Zir-e darakhtan e zeiton

    Third of Kiarostami’s trilogy (after ‘Where is My Friend’s Home’ and ‘And Life Goes On’) plays an intriguing game between reality and fiction.
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  • Ardekoul

    Panahi filmed rescue work after severe earthquakes in Ardekoul, Iran.
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  • Tarh

    In this ‘screen test’ for The Taste of the Cherry, A. Kiarostami plays the lead, recorded by his son Bahman.
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  • Leila

    At the start of her marriage, the young Leila is unable to have children – her husband donesn’t mind, but her mother-in-law does… The première…
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  • Ruzi keh khaleh mariz boud

    Nine-year-old daughter of film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf made a doc about her sick aunt.
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  • Paper Airplanes

    Debutante director describes in a simple and always humane way the journey that a father and son made through the lush north of Iran with…
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  • Safari be diare mosafer

    Kiarostami visits the former child star of his film Mosafer 20 years later.
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  • Traveller from the South

    Reza is a little boy who manages to overcome all the hindrances in his path as he travels from the South of Iran to Teheran…
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  • Ayneh

    Mina (the girl from Panahi’s first film The White Balloon) doesn’t know her way home. But in the end she decides to set off alone.…
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