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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Filmfarsi

    Iranian sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll. Clips from action thrillers and melodramas bring an almost forgotten film industry to life.
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  • The Brick and the Mirror

    Classic precursor to Iranian New-Wave films from the1960s and 1970s, in which a taxi driver gets a baby dumped on him after the mother disappears…
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  • A Simple Story, Mine, Yours and M’s

    The director, who was born in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war, works out her personal history. Painful, yet not sentimental.
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  • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

    An Iranian vampire Western? Yeah, really! Bad City, a desolate city in Iran, is populated by drug dealers, pimps and other shady characters. A vampire
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  • I comme Iran

    Brussels: behind classroom doors Azari learns to read and write her mother tongue Persian using a manual from the Islamic Revolution.
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  • Withdrawal

    Ups and downs at an Iranian girls’ boarding school. Life’s problems are only hidden from the outside world. Strong cast in airy drama full of…
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  • Goodbye

    Without her husband and without her lawyer’s licence, which has been withdrawn, Noora is left pregnant and alone in her apartment. Her attempt t
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  • Les éclats (Ma gueule, ma révolte, mon nom)

    Sylvain George has aimed his camera for more than four years at the ups and downs of refugees stranded in the French port of Calais.…
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  • The Day I Disappeared

    Very personal film essay about immigration, seen through the eyes of a refugee. About what it’s like to be a foreigner in a strange country,…
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  • The White Meadows

    Last December, Mohammad Rasoulof and his fellow filmmaker Jafar Panahi were sentenced by a Revolutionary Court to six years imprisonment. They were al
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