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A Moment of Innocence
$20.95 | 78 minutes
THIS TITLE IS ON MORATORIUM AND CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf based this Iranian drama on his own life experiences, specifically centering the story around an altercation he had with a policeman as a 17-year-old. Makhmalbaf stabbed the policeman and was jailed. But two decades after his release, the director chose&hellip…
ABC Africa
$21.95 | 84 minutes
Originally intended as a documentary about the orphans of Uganda's destructive civil war, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami (TASTE OF CHERRY) expanded the scope of ABC AFRICA to include those stricken by Africa's massive AIDS epidemic and the people who work tirelessly to improve the conditions of their country. His impressionistic travelogue&hellip…
Ancient Tehran
$14.95 | 50 minutes
Tehran, with a population of over 10 million, is one of the largest cities in the world. Until 200 years ago, Tehran was just a village in the district of Rey. Agha Mammad Khan the founder of the Ghajar dynasty selected this village as his capital. Foreign visitors to Tehran described its extended orchards and gardens with springs flowing&hellip…
Born Under Libra
$26.95 | 95 minutes
This brave Iranian drama almost cost director Ahmad Reza Darvish his life when right-wing extremists kidnapped him and abandoned him alone in the desert in reaction to the film. This powerful movie tells the story of two college students in Tehran, the conservative Daniel and the reformist Mahtab, whose ill-fated romance dramatically&hellip…
Boutique
$26.95 | 115 minutes
A prescient view of Iranian culture at the turn of the 21st century, BOUTIQUE is a sad, salutary tale about life in Tehran. The film starts brightly, as young Johan meets an attractive young girl in his capacity as a window dresser at a chic, popular boutique. As they talk, it transpires that she can't afford any of the high-end designer&hellip…
Cease Fire
$26.95 | 105 minutes
This sharp, incisive Iranian romantic comedy from director Tahmineh Milani examines modern marriage in all its agonies, joys, and insanity. The film follows pretty young Sayeh as she complains to a psychologist about her handsome but overly headstrong husband, painting a detailed yet universal view of a turbulent relationship. Iranian&hellip…
Close-Up
$26.95 | 100 minutes
With his use of non-actors and his loose use of documentary rules, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's (TASTE OF CHERRY) films can often be characterized by asking whether what the viewer is seeing is reality or fiction. The film which perhaps most exemplifies this is CLOSE-UP, ostensibly a documentary about an impostor of another Iranian&hellip…
Corrupted Hands
$26.95 | 100 minutes
This Iranian film offers an amusing look at a wedding photographer named Siamak, who has his eye on a devious way to make some money. Embroiling various siblings into his scheme, Siamak decides to hijack his next ceremony by robbing the wedding party. But things start to go wrong when Siamak discovers that he is being tailed by a man&hellip…
Crimson Gold
$21.95 | 97 minutes
An expertly crafted film that allows the daily activities of a pizza delivery man to depict the complicated social structure of modern-day Iran, CRIMSON GOLD is directed by Jafar Panahi (THE CIRCLE) from a screenplay by Abbas Kiarostami (TASTE OF CHERRY). Following Hussein (Hussein Emadeddin) through late nights riding his motor scooter&hellip…
Daughters of the Sun
$26.95 | 92 minutes
A prime example of Iranian cinema, DAUGHTERS OF THE SUN picked up a Best First Feature award at the Montreal Festival of World Cinema. The story centers around the plight of a woman struggling to find work in the male-dominated Iranian society. Disguising herself as a boy, she takes a job in a carpet workshop where she toils over some&hellip…