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Iran/2002/35mm/Color/115min/in Farsi with English subtitle |
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Director: |
Ebrahim Hatamikia |
Screenplay: |
Ebrahim Hatamikia, Asghar Farhadi |
Art Director : |
Abdolhamid Qadirian |
Editor: |
Hiedeh Safiyari |
Director of Photography: |
Hassan Puya |
Sound: |
Asghar Abgun |
Producer: |
Manouchehr Mohammadi |
Cast: |
Hamid Farokhnejad, Leila Hatami, Gohar Kheirandish, Shahram Gaderi, Amir Ahanjan, Reza Shaffiejam, Mohamad Ali Inanloo |
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Synopsis: |
This is the story of a man who wants to emigrate along with his family. The man has no other choice, just our forefather were forced to move from place to place. But where as our forefathers enjoyed the luxury of moving to only place they wished, nowadays there are wars everywhere and you need money to get beyond the walls. But this poor man has only his own life to forfeit. |
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Release Date: |
United States: September 2002 |
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Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Variety |
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Iran/2004/35mm/Color/110mm/in Farsi with English Subtitle |
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| Director: |
Manoucher Mousayeri |
| Screenplay: |
Farhad Tohidi |
| Director of Photography: |
Ali Mazinani |
| Music: |
Fariborz Lachini |
| Editor: |
Abass Ganjavi |
| Sound: |
Eshagh Khanzadi |
| Producer: |
Ali Mazinani |
| Cast: |
Hediyeh Tehrani, Mohamad Reza Shariefienia, Gohar Kherandish, Soroush Ghoudarzi, Elham Hamidi |
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Synopsis: |
Plump realty company owner (Haji) who is sixty years old, send his wife and daughter to Karbala, Iraq as he falls in love with a beautiful house-hunter (Donya) who has come from USA to invest in Iran. Her ability to get the Haji to change his appearance shows women's real power over men. After Haji's wife return from Karbala , his wife finds out about Haji's marrige with Donya and Haji's problems grows up by minurtes. A must see comedy. |
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Release Date: |
United States:
April 2004 |
Reviews: |
Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Veriety |
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| Under The Moonlight (Drama) | Iran/2002/35mm/Color/96min/in Farsi with English Subtitle |
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Director: |
Reza Mir-Karimi |
Screenplay: |
Reza Mir-Karimi |
Director of Photography: |
Hamid Khozouee |
Editor: |
Nazanin Mofakham |
Music: |
Mohamad Reza Aligholi |
Sound: |
Mohamad Mokhtar |
Art Director: |
Amir Esbati |
Producer: |
Manoucher Mohammadi |
Cast: |
Hossein Parastar, Hamed Rajabali, Mehran Rajabi, Ali Bokaian, Fereshteh Sadr Oraaie,Shaghayegh Dehghan |
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Synopsis: |
A rural young seminary student, Seyyed Hassan, is about to become a clergyman. Every student is busy with the preparations in the school, but Seyyed Hassan's supplies are stolen by a kid. Searching for the kid in the edge of the city, he meets people who are completely strangers and outsiders. Under such unfamiliar circumstances, Seyyed Hassan acquires a new underestanding of a society and human beings. |
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Release Date: |
United State: October 2002 |
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Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Variety |
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Iran/2002/35mm/Color/90min/in Farsi with English Subtitle |
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Director: |
Hamid Jebeli |
Screenplay: |
Hamid Jebeli
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Director of Photography: |
Touraj Aslani |
Editor: |
Jila Ipkechi |
Music: |
Pirooz Arjmond |
Sound: |
Parviz Abenar |
Producer: |
Majid Modarresi
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Cast: |
Hamid Jebeli, Elizabeth Amini |
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Synopsis: |
Reza works in a shop. He thinks of himself as an expert in wedding dresses. He's not married. He has seen many brides in his life, but he doesn't consider any of them as a perfect bride. He's looking for his ideal bride. Until one day his dream bride walks in to the shop. He falls madly in love… |
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Release Date: |
United States:
April 2003 |
Reviews: |
Los Angeles Times,
LA Weekly, Variety
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Iran/2002/Color/102min/in Farsi with English Subtitle |
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| Director: |
Director: Hassan Hedayat |
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Synopsis: |
Ezzatollah Entezami, one of Iranian cinema's most honored actors, heads a strong cast as a veteran police inspector who begins to feel the effect of his life's work. Overcome with loneliness and his own impending mortality, he begins to imagine seeing his dead wife as he investigates a murder case involving an elderly drug addict who washed up on a beach. Unraveling the mystery leads the weary detective on a path of self discovery. Entezami (Once Upon a Time Cinema; The Cow) offers one of the most poignant, compelling performances of an impressive career that spans the entirety of Iran's contemporary cinema movement. |
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Reviews: |
"Entezami is a commanding presence, an effortlessly skillful and resourceful actor with deeply expressive eyes."
-Kevin Thomas, L.A. TIMES |
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Iran/2000/Color/95min/in Farsi with English Subtitle |
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Director: |
Ahmad Reza Darvish |
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Synopsis: |
In a plot familiar to both the cinema and daily life in Iran, young people struggle to reconcile progressive attitudes with strict religious traditions of an older generation. Daniel is in love with fellow university student Mahtab, but her father is campaigning for segregated classes at the university. Daniel's association with an ultra-religious group and Mahtab's sympathies with the reformists push the couple further apart. After his love letter to Mahtab is made public, the couple flees Tehran for the countryside, but their attempt to return to the city is a nightmare through a dangerous wasteland.
BORN UNDER LIBRA, starring one of Iran's most popular actors, Mohammad Reza Farutan (Two Women) is a romantic drama of youthful unrest and an allegory for Iran's ongoing political turmoil. |
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Reviews: |
“...‘The Rat Patrol' as conceived by Samuel Beckett.”
Robert Koehler, Variety |
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