Signals: Inside Iran
Overview of films
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Rhino Season
A political indictment and an epic love tragedy by IFFR audience-award winner Bahman Ghobadi (Turtles Can Fly), with Monica Bellucci playing the lead.
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My Stolen Revolution
The filmmaker fled revolutionary Iran; 30 years later, she seeks out other survivors when protests resume in Tehran. Emotional and personal.
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Raining Ashes
A woman in jail dreams of the activist who writes her letters. Or is the imaginary relationship between prisoner and activist really the other way rou
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Conquest of Paradise
A split screen that, with the aid of icons such as basketball and red white and blue, illustrates the illusion of the American Dream.
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From Tehran to London
Akbari stopped shooting her film in Iran after several filmmakers were arrested. She edited her story about a married couple in crisis in London. Henc
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Scaffold
Two images side-by-side, mysterious sound. On the left, labourers are busy with sand and wheelbarrows, paving among the traffic. On the right, outside
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When the Curtain Falls
An artist paints a poem on a glass canvas. His model disappears from view thanks to the beautiful calligraphy of an old poem. The glass becomes a veil
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Keep Us, Keep Us
Modern Teheran seen from the car. One shot, three friends, good humoured conversation and a practical joke with consequences.
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Make Art, Not War
A cardboard city and a tank that shoots beautiful graffiti on the walls. The title says it all: Make art, not war!
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111 Girls
111 Kurdish girls live in an area without marriageable men. They bring their problem to the president’s attention, threatening to commit collective su
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The Memories of Others
A film made up of found photos and slides. In a collage of these images, a new story is created about the inevitable end.
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Darvag
A kind of bailiff, but the illegal kind. A loan shark. Not the most pleasant, safe or respected profession, but the Iranian student Yousef has no choi