Films of Iran
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is not an unknown name in the world of cinema. Viewers across the world are well aware of his indomitable spirit and courage to defy the authoritarian and suppressive Iranian regime and make films as independent filmmakers. He was banned from making films in Iran for 20 years in 2010. However, …
Like his previous films, Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero deals with ordinary people and their lives. A debt-convict returns 17 gold coins, which her girlfriend picked up on the street, to its rightful owner. As a normal human, he makes mistakes but does not deviate himself from his morality. He strongly opposes the emotional exploitation of …
Abbas Kiarostami received widespread critical acclaim over time not only in Iran but across the world. He began his filmmaking journey in the 1960s but started receiving international recognition from Where Is the Friend’s Home? onwards. He was one of the very few filmmakers who did not leave Iran after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. …
Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy certifies the copies and strongly argues that even the originals are also copies. Nothing in this world is absolutely original. However, the copies are not less standard. There are times when originals are not accessible, copies fulfill our needs. In this film, Kiarostami has woven a story between a British art …
Abbas Kiarostami’s Five Dedicated to Ozu is a unique cinematic experience. Films do not necessarily always portray stories. Sometimes, non-narrative shots convey more meaning than merely describing a story. Those become integral parts of a film and most importantly depict life on screen. Five Dedicated to Ozu consists of five long shots of nature without …
Abbas Kiarostami’s Shirin is a perfect example of experimental filmmaking. The film is based on the epic poem Khosrow and Shirin by Nizami Ganjavi. However, Kiarostami is not interested in merely presenting the poem in the film. He has always experimented with different filmmaking styles and enriched films as one of the most important mediums …
Abbas Kiarostami’s Ten portrays the indescribable plight and struggle of Iranian women in modern Iran. Kiarostami’s films always deal with serious issues like life, death, afterlife, spirituality, suicide, etc., and represent the lives and culture of ordinary Iranians. His films are replete with the enormous natural beauty of Rural Iran. However, in this film, his …
Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us is a poetic film. A journalist named Behzad (Behzad Dourani) visits a Kurdish Iranian village to shoot the funeral rituals of a hundred-year-old woman. After spending a couple of weeks there, he finally abandons the mission and is about to leave the village when the old woman dies. As …
Abbas Kiarostami’s Life and Nothing More… is the 2nd film of the Koker Trilogy. In this film, an alter ego of Kiarostami Farhad Kheradmand sets out for Koker by car with his adolescent son Pouya in search of the young actors featured in the first film of the Koker Trilogy Where Is the Friend’s Home?, …
Through the Olive Trees is the third and final film of Abbas Kiarostami’s Koker trilogy. Like the other two films of the trilogy – Where Is the Friend’s Home? and Life and Nothing More, this film too is set in the village named Koker in Northern Iran. Like many of his films, Kiarostami portrays the …