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1) Taxi
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Persian
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Jafar Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses his or her own view of the world while being interviewed by the curious and gracious driver.
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Persian
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A year in the lives of three residents of Tehran, working to build better futures" features Mokhtar, who leaves his wife, Khatoun, to seek opportunities outside Iran, while Khatoun is left alone to care for their daughter. Marhab, a heavy-machinery mechanic, sees Khatoun in the neighborhood, and tries to win her affections. Misfortune, fate, and tragedy befall their everyday lives.-- Container.
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Persian
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"Shideh and her young daughter, Dorsa, are left alone in a war-torn city when her husband is drafted and sent to the front lines. After a dud missile strikes their apartment building, a neighbor mysteriously dies and Dorsa's behavior becomes erratic. Shideh scoffs at her superstitious neighbor's warning that the missile carries an ancient curse, Shideh now realizes that the malevolent force in her home is infinitely more evil and terrifying than the...
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English
Description
How far would you go for freedom of expression? Would you risk losing your job? Your family? Your life? Suffocated by censorship and under constant threat of reprisal, there is always the chance that the next sentence they write could be the start of a confession in a regime prison. Filmed from the inside over the last decade, this is a window onto the corruption and brutality of the Ahmadinejad years, and their enduring legacy of silence.
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Persian
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Follows a pair of young musicians, recently released from prison, on a mission to take their rock band to Europe. Forbidden by the authorities to play in Iran, they plan their escape abroad with a fast-talking music promoter. Vowing to play one last show before leaving Tehran, their dangerous mission takes them on a free-wheeling journey through the city's vibrant and diverse underground scene, home to an estimated 2,000 illegal independent bands....
7) Going by
Language
Persian
Description
On any given day a variety of travelers take the road from Tehran to northern Iraq. On this particular day, four carloads of people take the same road for different reasons. While they don't know each other, their conversations have much in common.
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English
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" An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He draws the turbulence of the post-war era during which the Shah...