The Film Sufi

Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman ( Forushande , 2016) is another dramatic tale of evolving marital disharmony that has almost become this Ir...

Abbas Kiarostami’s Through the Olive Trees ( Zire Darakhatan Zeyton , 1994) was one of the veteran director’s films that first attracte...

Gold and Copper ( Tala va Mes , 2011) is an Iranian film directed by Homayoun Assadian about a young married couple that must come to ter...

When middle-class Iranians in Tehran have a holiday, they often like to escape their dry urban confines and trek up north to the Caspian se...

Chaharshanbe Suri ( Fireworks Wednesday , 2006) is an Iranian domestic drama directed by Asghar Farhadi that outlines the strains and emo...

Jafar Panahi , direct from the triumph of his brilliant The Circle ( Dayereh , 2000) , next came up with Crimson Gold ( Talaye Sorkh , 20...