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PlaceIrã
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Through the Olive Trees/Under the Olive Trees
1994
A filmmaker shoots in the inland of Iran, a region distinguished for its poverty and shaken by an earthquake. Patiently, he talks to people, interested in their problems. The actors are selected among the local citizens and the end of the shooting is delayed, because two of the selected actors...
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Paper Airplanes
1997
An employee of the Ministry of Culture has a mission to travel to the most isolated cities in the country with his mobile cinema, showing films. One day, he decides to take his son with him. They arrive at a small rural village where they are received - the children help them to set up screen and...
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Baduk
1992
Após a morte do pai, Jafar e sua irmã Jamal seguem um estranho que lhes oferece comida. Enganados, são separados e vendidos para um negociante de escravos. Querendo reencontrar a irmã, Jafar aceita arriscar a própria vida e torna-se um baduki, nome que recebem as pessoas que, diariamente,...
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Baran
2001
A group of Afghan refugees working illegally in Iran is seen through the eyes of Lateef, an Iranian teenager. Lateef works on a building site serving food and tea to the Afghans doing heavy labor in exchange for a pittance of a salary. The boy is also paid a negligible amount. When Najaf, one of...
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Bashu, the Little Stranger
1986
Um filme simples, delicado e que se passa durante o conflito Irã-Iraque. O menino Bashu perde os pais num bombardeio. Depois de uma longa viagem de caminhão, chega a Gilan, um povoado ao Norte, onde a guerra não se fez sentir. O menino é acolhido por uma camponesa cujo marido está na guerra....
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Bemani
2002
Three young Iranian girls have the joy for living brutally cut short. One of them, Bemani, is obliged, through poverty, to marry a man much older than she is and looks on helplessly at the agonies of her two friends who, in despair at the oppression, kill themselves by setting fire to their own...
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Capitain Khorshid
1988
Adaptação livre do romance "To Have and Have Not", de Ernest Hemingway, que já teve três versões do cinema - a mais famosa é "Uma Aventura na Martinica", com Humphrey Bogart. Esta versão iraniana se passa no Golfo Pérsico, em 1953. Um contrabandista, com medo de que seu barco seja...
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Unwritter Letter
2001
A boy from a school in up-country Iran makes a paper boat and allows it to be borne away by a stream of water. Along its trajectory, the boat is up against various aspects of daily life.
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Two Legged Horses
2008
A man comes from the city looking for a ten-year-old boy, to work for him. In order to get the job, the boy has to participate in a contest with other poor children. The man will employ whoever can carry a crippled child - who lost his legs in war - to school on his back. A tough contest takes...
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Once Again Rain
2004
Javad lives in an extremely rainy area. The boy dreams of having an umbrella, just like any kid at his age. The trouble is the boy’ family cannot afford an umbrella. Nevertheless, his mother tries to fulfill her son’ desire.
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Gipsy
2002
The inhabitants of the village of Talkhak believe that, to kill a skylark will bring ruin. Rassul, a boy, spends his time hunting for larks in response to another popular belief : that he can make it rain. It is a time of drought in Talkhak and the population decide to hold a religious rite. One of...
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Five
2004
In this intensely contemplative film, Abbas Kiarostami invites the spectator, as he himself says, "to look at things that, in themselves, do not merit a more attentive gaze". In the north of Iran, on the edge of the Caspian Sea, the director used only a DV camera to film the simple events taking...
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Close Up
1990
Semi-documentary about a young frustrated movie fan, who is arrested by the police while pretending to be Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a celebrated Iranian movie director. Introducing himself as Makhmalbaf to a rich family, he tells them he wants to use their house as movie set and cast them to act in his...
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How Samira Made the Blackboards
2000
Documentary filmed on video on the procedures for making The Blackboard, by Samira Makhmalbaf, directed by Maysan Makhmalbaf, aged 19. Maysan follows in the steps of her sister through Kurdistan, in Iran. The story of a group of school teachers wandering through villages devastated, with their...
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Silent Companion
2004
Days before the confrontation between the U.S. and Iraq. An Iraqi secretly crosses the frontier between Iraq and Iran in a small boat. His final destination is a village where he intends, with friends who deal in smuggled goods, to borrow a wedding dress. One of his friends gives him a dress that...
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Oil Children
2001
In a city in the south of Iran, in Masjed Soleyman, where the first oil well in the Middle East was drilled and that is today, one of the main oil producing centers in the country, a family endeavors to make a living in the absence of the father who has gone to Kuwait as a hired hand. The little...
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From Land of Silence
2004
In an inhospitable desert area in the vicinity of a salt mine in the interior of Iran, two young brothers struggle along for survival as best they can. One of them feeds the camels that carry contraband with opium to increase their yield. The other steals fuel from drivers and re-sells it to the...
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Empty Hands
2004
According to one of the most characteristic sources of Iranian cinema, the film tells a real story, interpreted by its real protagonists. The central character is a polygamous man who has five wives and 50 children, forming by himself a village in the south of Iran. He believes he exploits his...
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Delbaran
2001
In the north of the province of Khorasan, in eastern Iran, near to the frontier with Afghanistan, is a village , Delbaran. “Not such a long time ago, when people still had feelings such as ‘love’ and ‘hope’, when they were not yet seized by the fear of a war and the need for bread, lovers...
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Ten
2002
Ten sequences in the emotional life of six women and the challenges they are beset with at one particular time in their lives. Ten episodes set on different days, but always in the same car belonging to a young woman. Divorced and newly-married to another man, she has one child from the first...
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Green Days
2009
Ava is a depressed Iranian Girl. She goes to a psychologist for treatment. She sees past political incident in Iran as the cause of her depression. The therapist advices her to do some labor work like cleaning the staircases and even asks her to work on a play. However, her play, which is inspired...
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Djomeh
2000
Djomeh is a young Afghan who works on a farm in the remote interior of Iran. Every morning he accompanies the owner of the farm, Mr Mahmoud, to villages in the vicinity to buy up and then re-sell milk.As opposed to his colleague and protector Habib, ingenuous Djomeh will not allow himself to be...
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Across the River
2009
In the wake of a major battle of Iran-Iraq war, a cameraman finds himself stranded in the wilderness alongside the only other survivors, an Iraqi and an Iranian soldier. With a single gun between them, the soldiers alternatively take each other hostage, marching aimlessly upon the scorched earth to...
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Sweet Agony
1999
Reza and Muna are a young couple promised to one another in childhood. After so many years, however, their families view any commitment as a thing of the past. This is not acceptable to Reza and Muna who still feel the same as they did when they were children. They take it upon themselves to speak...