Overview of articles
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Standing Up
Documentary maker Waise Azimi followed the four-month military training programme of young Afghani recruits. Trained by a combination of Afghan, AmeriPublished on: -
Unfinished Stories
Roaming the streets at night is usually no fun and certainly not as a woman in Teheran, with almost insoluble problems. A grim portrait of…Published on: -
The Circle
Panahi focuses his camera on the problems of women in the bottom layer of Iranian society, in an impressively realistic film. Winner of the Golden…Published on: -
The House is Black
A ‘poetic treatment of leprosy’, but also a factual documentary by one of Iran’s most venerated modern poets, a woman whose writing still permeates IrPublished on: -
Daughters of the Sun
Provocative film about controversial subject. A girl dresses up as a boy and works at a weaving mill because her father has no sons. The…Published on: -
Tales of an Island
Trilogy by prominent Iranian film directors situated on the island of Kish. They all play with the genre of the film-within-a-film, in a surreal and…Published on: -
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.Published on: -
My Stolen Revolution
The filmmaker fled revolutionary Iran; 30 years later, she seeks out other survivors when protests resume in Tehran. Emotional and personal.Published on: -
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…Published on: -
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. HencPublished on: