Films of Iran
Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s Home? is a heart-touching story of a schoolboy who goes to his neighboring village to return his friend’s notebook so that he does not get expelled by the schoolteacher the next day. The film shows how efficiently a filmmaker can make a film based on children and highlight their …
Close-Up established great Abbas Kiarostami strongly as a major international filmmaker. It is based on a true story of a man named Hossain Sabzian who impersonated famous Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf and was arrested subsequently. Close-Up is based on the real-life trial of Hossain Sabzian. The film deals with important issues like personal identity, poverty, …
World-famous Iranian film genius Abbas Kiarostami made multiple important films during his lifetime. Taste of Cherry is one of his most important and celebrated works. Kiarostami’s works deal with serious issues like life, death, afterlife, spirituality, separation, isolation, divorce, acceptance. He always made films based on what life had taught him. Humanity was his single …
Asghar Farhadi returns to Iran after The Past and makes yet another masterpiece The Salesman. The film tells the story of a theater actor couple Emad (Shahab Hosseini), who is also a teacher, and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti). They act in Arthur Miller’s famous play Death of a Salesman. However, the film takes a U-turn when …
Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation is filled with multiple aspects of life not only in Iran but across the world from different perspectives. Even if the film is a drama, it takes the form of a psychological thriller. The film shows how people behave as per their current situations and surroundings. Everyone has justifications for their behaviors. There …