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Blackboards (Persian: تخته سیاه, Takhté siah; Kurdish: تەختێ رەش, romanized: Textê Reş) is a 2000 Iranian film directed by Samira Makhmalbaf.It focuses on a group of Kurdish refugees after the chemical bombing of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War.
Life and a Day (Persian: ابد و یک روز, romanized: Abad-o Yek Rouz) is a 2016 Iranian drama film written and directed by Saeed Roustaee. [1] The film screened for the first time at the 34th Fajr Film Festival and earned 10 nominations and received 7 awards. [2] It was released on March 16, 2016, in Iran theatrically. [3]
Tehran Taboo (Persian: تهران تابو) is a 2017 Persian-language adult animated drama film written and directed by Ali Soozandeh. [1]Animated through rotoscope, the film tells the story of three women and a male musician living in Tehran and their desperate attempts at coping with Iran's strict religious laws and resulting double standards. [2]
The illegal version was released shortly afterwards and the people of Iran saw it. The film was broadcast many times by illegal networks in Iran. After 17 years, the film was licensed in Iran and is now legal. [1] Supreme leader Ali Khamenei has stated that he was opposed to banning the film and urged religious scholars not to take offense at ...
Protesters disrupted a speech by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a ceremony remembering the victims of Hamas’s 7 October attack on southern Israel last year.. People shouted ...
Zalava (Persian: زالاوا) is a 2021 Iranian horror drama film directed by Arsalan Amiri and written by Amiri, Ida Panahandeh and Tahmineh Bahramalian. [1] [2] The film screened for the first time at the 39th Fajr Film Festival and earned 6 nominations and received 4 awards.
Where Is the Friend's Home? depicts the simple story of a young boy who travels from Koker to a neighbouring village to return the notebook of a schoolmate. Life and Nothing More follows a father and his young son as they drive from Tehran to Koker in search of the two young boys who had acted in Where Is the Friend's Home?, fearing that the two might have perished in the 1990 Iran earthquake ...
The White Balloon has an approval rating of 83% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 24 reviews, and an average rating of 6.9/10.The website's critical consensus states: "The White Balloon tells a simple yet powerfully effective story through a child's eyes, inviting audiences to see familiar surroundings from a different perspective."