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Showing 32 Films from Iran
![Abadan](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1323/medium_film_12725237_photo1.jpg)
Abadan
Separated from but still emotionally attached to her husband, a woman searches desperately for her runaway father who is obsess...
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![About Elly](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/16/medium_film_41264162_photo1.jpg)
About Elly
A group of old college pals reunites for a weekend adventure on the sea, but compounding lies and deception quickly lead to cat...
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![Afghanistan, The Lost Truth](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1567/medium_film_12735317_photo1.jpg)
Afghanistan, The Lost Truth
An honest look at a war-ravaged land after the fall of the Taliban, going beyond the now-clichéd images of so many recent films...
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![Angels Die in the Soil](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1411/medium_film_16735991_photo1.jpg)
Angels Die in the Soil
An Iraqi-Kurdish girl faces war and redemption in Angels Die in the Soil (Fereshtegan Dar Khak Mimirand).
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![Concert of Mysteries](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/images/graphic-no-image.jpg)
Concert of Mysteries
Produced by Manijeh Hekmat, whose The Wall this short accompanies, is a glimpse inside one of the only truly free places in Ira...
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![Crystal](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1312/medium_film_12732497_photo1.jpg)
Crystal
A young woman is afflicted by a strange and rare disease that leads to painful crystals being produced in her eyelids and uteru...
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![Day Break](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1977/medium_film_12731347_photo1.jpg)
Day Break
In Iran, a murder conviction allows for the victim's family to choose capital punishment or forgiveness for the perpetrator. Th...
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![Driving Lessons](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3958/medium_Driving_Lessons__Ehsan_Majd__1_WB_LR_UBG.jpg)
Driving Lessons
According to Iranian law, Bahareh (Linda Kiani) must have her traditional, chauvinistic husband accompany her on driving lesson...
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![Eddeaa](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1352/medium_film_12720907_photo1.jpg)
Eddeaa
Eddeaa is a satirical revelation of the paradoxes and contradictions between tradition and modernity within Persian culture.
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![Fireworks Wednesday](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1649/medium_film_12720147_photo1.jpg)
Fireworks Wednesday
On the last Wednesday before the spring solstice ushers in the Persian New Year, people set off fireworks following an ancient ...
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![Gilaneh](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/435/medium_film_12734237_photo1.jpg)
Gilaneh
It is the Iranian New Year, 1988. Sadaam is bombing Tehran. And Gilaneh's family is being ripped apart by the war. Her son-in-l...
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![Half Moon](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1655/medium_film_12720207_photo1.jpg)
Half Moon
Graying but determined, Mamo is a famed Kurdish musician who obtains permission to cross the Iranian border to give his first c...
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![Head Wind](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1362/medium_film_16735371_photo1.jpg)
Head Wind
The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran does its best to restrict its citizens' access to information and media from the...
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![Inside Out](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1252/medium_film_12731002_photo1.jpg)
Inside Out
There are probably few places in the world where it's more difficult to be a transexual than the Islamic Republic of Iran. Insi...
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![Men at Work](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1924/medium_film_12728067_photo1.jpg)
Men at Work
This subtle and comic political allegory focuses on four middle-class guys who pile into their car for a ski weekend (already a...
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![Moment](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/images/graphic-no-image.jpg)
Moment
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![Navel](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1333/medium_film_12728287_photo1.jpg)
Navel
This experimental "reality drama" depicts a few seemingly idle days in the lives of four men and a woman who share an apartment...
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![Night of the Hunchback](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1350/medium_film_12720382_photo1.jpg)
Night of the Hunchback
This dark comedy, a key masterwork of Iranian cinema, has long remained unseen in the West. Adapted from a story in 1001 Nights...
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![Once Upon a Time in Marrakech](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1940/medium_film_12728817_photo1.jpg)
Once Upon a Time in Marrakech
In the autumn of 2005, 16 film students from NYC and Morocco converged on Marrakech as guests of the Tribeca Film Institute, Tr...
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![Pilgrimage/Infidels](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/100/medium_film_12725667_photo1.jpg)
Pilgrimage/Infidels
After Saddam's fall, hundreds of thousands of Iranians rushed to cross the suddenly unguarded border with Iraq to visit the hol...
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![President Mir Qanbar](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1020/medium_film_12734757_photo1.jpg)
President Mir Qanbar
A 75-year old villager mounts his third campaign for Iran’s presidency, aided only by a disabled sidekick, to whom he’s natural...
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![Retouch](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3141/medium_TFF17_Retouch__Mohammadreza_Jahanpanah__1.jpg)
Retouch
Maryam's husband has an accident at home and, rather than saving him, she stops helping and watches him die.
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![Roads of Kiarostami](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1852/medium_film_12724422_photo1.jpg)
Roads of Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami has recently been exhibiting his black-and-white landscape photographs at venues around the world, and Roads o...
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![Siah Bâzi: The Joy Makers](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/1591/medium_film_12737042_photo1.jpg)
Siah Bâzi: The Joy Makers
The alarming disappearance of humor from Iran's political discourse is traced when an improv troupe of political satirists, the...
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![Sounds of Silence](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/images/graphic-no-image.jpg)
Sounds of Silence
In Iran, where half the population is under 30, Western music is banned, and the solo female voice has not been heard singing i...
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