With a trove of gripping footage filmed by protestors, this documentary goes inside the ... speaking Farsi): >> NARRATOR: The Iranian government did not grant any interviews for this film, or ...

By Caryn James Sierra Urich has a documentary-ready family history ... just months before the Islamic revolution deposed the Shah and put the Ayatollah Khomeini in power. Mitra’s mother ...

A documentary film about the Iranian New Wave is included in the selection ... The film’s alleged political message was found so dangerous that it was banned both pre- and post-revolution. The film ...

With his new documentary "Where God is Not", French-Iranian filmmaker Mehran Tamadon ... of the 1980s in the immediate aftermath of the revolution up until the last decade. But "everything I ...

“I was out of the airport at nine o’clock,” Nickzad says in the new HBO documentary A Revolution on Canvas ... Panthers—and particularly the Iranian Students Association in the United ...

Three years ago, the Iranian filmmaker Pegah Ahangarani was ... when the images of her youth give way to footage of the Islamic Revolution, a decade earlier, taken by Gholam: men running ...

Later, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the cinematic contributions of Dariush Mehrjui, Sohrab Shahid-Saless, Arby Ovanessian, and Nasser Taghvai breathed new life into Iranian cinema. These ...

For Iranian Women, Can a Revolution Take Place at Home ... null Supported by By Elahe Esmaili Ms. Esmaili is a documentary filmmaker. In the wake of the Women, Life, Freedom movement, one of ...

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