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POLARIS

By Bradley Gibson | January 2025

In Polaris, director/co-writer Soudabeh Moradian gives us the tale of war photographer Baran (Alicja Bachleda), who is in the U.S. looking for…

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In Polaris, director/co-writer Soudabeh Moradian gives us the tale of war photographer Baran (Alicja Bachleda), who is in the U.S. looking for her adopted...

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Tomorrow is an animated dramedy short by Iranian director-screenwriter Aryasb Feiz. The film is set on an autumn day in 1970s Shiraz, Iran. A 10-year-old...

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Director Julia Elihu's short film In the Garden of Tulips follows young Caroline (Ava Lalezarzadeh) and her father, Sharif (Iman Nazemzadeh), as he takes...

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We live in a time when it seems the only way to make change is by speaking out. This is true in Amir Zargara's short film from Iran, A Good Day Will...

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In writer-director Liam LoPinto's wonderful short film, The Old Young Crow, an elderly Iranian man named Mehrdad (Hassan Shahbazi) reflects on his time in...

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2K RESTORATION FILM REVIEW! I've never quite seen a love story than the one portrayed in Asghar Farhadi's 2003 feature, Dancing in the Dust. As foreign...

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INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF INDIA 2022 REVIEW! Director Ali Abbasi's third feature, Holy Spider, is based on serial murders that happened in Iran in...

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Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free is just as much about its titular subject as it is about the history of Iran. Written and directed by Dawn Gifford Engle,...

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Cengiz Akaygün's short film Aysha begins with a small girl, Aysha (Jiyan Akaygün), in a dusty courtyard wearing a full-body veil, firing pebbles with a...

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TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! The opening of Holy Spider breaks one of the "rules" of filmmaking profoundly and to great effect. The...

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