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In this heartwarming adventure, and Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, a poor South Tehran brother and sister dream up a plan to stay out of trouble. After one of them loses their pair of school shoes, they decide to keep it a secret from their parents. But if they’re going to successfully cover their tracks, Ali and Zahra must carefully watch their step on what rapidly turns into a heartwarming adventure.
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Reza, having distanced himself from the urban quagmire, leads a simple life along with his wife and young son, in a remote village in Northern Iran. He spends his days working on his goldfish farm. Nearby, a private company with close links to the government, has taken control of nearly every aspect of regional life. Its shareholders, accumulating wealth, power and economic influence, have been pushing local farmers to sell off their farms, to the...
4) Fish & Cat
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Persian
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A group of attractive young Iranian kite-flying enthusiasts gather at a dismal lake, near a restaurant where two sinister characters are serving up grisly fare.
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Persian
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Director Shahram Mokri’s first feature is a delightfully offbeat B&W comedy about the mysterious workings of Fate, played out in deadpan Jim Jarmusch-like vignettes. Two blind jewel thieves, a young man who can’t succeed at killing himself, a love-struck police officer and two female morgue attendants find their lives interconnected when an unusual fish is set free and a charmed ring is moved. Watch for sly references to film noir classics including...
7) Invasion
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Persian
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Director Shahram Mokri’s third and most formally challenging film continues the time-bending, single-shot experimentation of FISH & CAT (and later, CARELESS CRIME) in a science-fiction/detective/vampire story, with nods to stylized 1980s New Wave-era films like LIQUID SKY. Sometime in the future, teams of tattooed athletes play a vaguely defined sport in an ominous, labyrinthine stadium where a murder has taken place. When police try to reconstruct...
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Persian
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Inspired by a real-life tragedy, the infamous Cinema Rex fire in 1978 that triggered the Iranian Revolution, CARELESS CRIME follows three “timelines” – of arsonists planning to burn down a movie theatre; of workers and students at the cinema; and of characters within the film screening at the cinema – which may or may not all be happening at the same time. One of the most dazzling and enigmatic films in recent memory, Mokri’s mind-bending...
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When Ali loses his sister Zahra's school shoes, they dream up a plan to stay out of trouble: they'll share his shoes and keep it a secret from their parents. But if they're going to successfully cover their tracks, Ali and Zahra must carefully watch their step on what rapidly turns into a heartwarming adventure! A magical motion picture acclaimed by critics and audiences alike.
10) Beautiful City
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Persian
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When he was just 16, Akbar (Hossein Farzi-Zadeh) killed his girlfriend. Two years later, he's being transferred to an adult prison where he must wait to die. But the sentence could be changed to life imprisonment if the bereaved father, Rahmati (Faramarz Gharibian), forgives the young man his horrific crime. With Rahmati unreceptive, Akbar's friend (Babak Ansari) and sister (Taraneh Alidoosti) try to elicit sympathy by raising money for an operation...
11) Ambrosia
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Persian
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Ambrosia is the story of an Iranian-Canadian couple, Ali and Leila, who dream of an exciting future in Vancouver. Ali owns a pizza shop and thinks of expanding and Leila is an up-and-coming clothing designer. However, their situations change dramatically when Ali's shop is affected by the bad economy and Leila is hired to work at a fashion design firm.
12) Zapas
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Persian
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The world's deepest cold-water spring is in the city of Ramiyan. An old tradition says that all the youth of the city need to climb the waterfall and jump into this spring in order to become men. And by floundering the right way, they reach peace of mind. This unique tale is from director Borzou Niknejad, the director of the hit "Inadvertant." In Persian with English subtitles.
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Unlucky in both marriage and finances, Nazar (Yousef Khodaparast) is pressured into divorcing his wife (Baran Kosari) because of her family's bad reputation. This leads to money problems and, before long, Nazar is on the run, due to debts that he can't pay. Hiding out in the desert, he meets an eccentric elderly man (Faramarz Gharibian) who makes a living by collecting venom from poisonous snakes. Nazar becomes his unlikely partner and gets an unexpected...
14) Baran
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Persian
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In a Tehran building site, 17-year-old Lateef's coworker falls from the building and the worker's son, Rahmat, enters the scene to become the new provider for his family. As Lateef is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, it's not until it's revealed that Rahmat is actually a young woman posing as a man, that both of their lives are forever changed! A humorous, moving love story of the most romantic kind.
15) Crimson Gold
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Persian
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Two master filmmakers, Abba Kiarostami (A Taste of Cherry) and Jafar Panahi (The Circle, Taxi) team up as writer and director, respectively, on Crimson Gold, a subtle tragedy on class conflict in modern Iran. Hussein (Hossain Emadeddin, a real-life pizza delivery man who has schizophrenia) is a lumbering war veteran swollen by cortisone (for war-induced pain) and reduced to delivering pizzas at night. Through his nightly rounds, he bears witness to...
16) The Orphanage
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Persian
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Set in late Soviet-era Afghanistan, this coming-of-age tale from Shahrbanoo Sadat follows her acclaimed debut Wolf and Sheep and is the second film in a planned pentalogy based on the diary of writer Anwar Hashimi. Protagonist Qodrat returns, now a 15-year-old boy who is sent to a state orphanage after getting caught selling black market cinema tickets. Coping with bullies, friendship and a nascent romance, Qodrat finds escape in Bollywood-esque song-and-dance...
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