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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Transit

    About the problems of asylum seekers, shot with real refugees.
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  • The Orphan of Anyang

    Surprising début narratives in long and tense scenes the shared fate of a sacked worker, a prostitute and a gangster. Realism from contemporary China.
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  • Delbaran

    Delbaran is an almost deserted Iranian village near the Afghan border, where the desert is inhabited by truckers, Afghan resistance fighters, and a fe
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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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  • Here to Where

    A pushy, young American film director tries to make a (fiction) film featuring a legendary (and real) Iranian refugee, marooned for 12 years at Charle
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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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