Iran

Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free

By Bobby LePire | November 2022

Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free is just as much about its titular subject as it is about the history of Iran. Written…

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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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Mohammad Rasoulof received considerable praise from the international cinema community for his film There is No Evil. The recognition was well deserved as...

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30th ARIZONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! Female puberty gets warped by gender repression in writer/director Maryam Zahirimehr's...

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SLAMDANCE 2022 FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! The Iranian documentary Doggy Love is an uncomfortable look at how dogs are treated in Tehran. Aslan and Yassi run...

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! Iranian auteur Abed Abest's spellbinding Killing The Eunuch Khan is a masterpiece spanning several cinematic genres....

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NEW TO AMAZON PRIME! Asghar Farhadi already has an incredible reputation as a writer and director, having won and been nominated for more than 100 awards,...

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FANTASTIC FEST 2021 REVIEW! Arsalan Amiri's debut feature, Zalava, explores the ancient conflict between reason and faith through the story of a tiny...

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NOW IN THEATERS! The exposure of the inequities between men's and women's sports rages on, and Sahar Mossayebi's Platform adds much-needed fuel to the...

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