Abolfazl Jalili
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Abolfazl Jalili at IFFR
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Full or Empty
Iran is not the country for idiosyncratic ambitions. But that doesn’t get rid of the ambitions: the energetic young protagonist wants to teach in rain
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Hafez
As well as being a talented student, Hafez is also a romantic poet who fancies the daughter-in-law of the mufti. He’s caught out and embarks on a jour
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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
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The First Letter
No one can film running boys the way Jalili can. Humane, poetic, epic and autobiographical: about a boy who grows up in Iran in the turbulent 1970s an
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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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Dance of Dust
A film that was made in 1992 but faced distribution problems is Jalili’s most poetic. Almost without dialogue, but filled with abstract sounds and ima
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Scabies
Docu-drama which was shown, then re-edited years later in 1989. It’s about a young offender, Hamed, arrested for distributing illegal tracts, who has
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Milad
Jalili’s first film tells the story of the young adolescent Milad, whose father, a railwayman, was arrested by the authorities for political reasons.
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Yek dastan-e vaghe’i
The director plays himself as a film-maker looking for a suitable kid to play in his next film. When the ideal boy turns out to be ill, an exciting qu