The Film Sufi

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is famous not only for his outstanding films but also for his heroic struggles to freely express himself ...

Famed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s difficult circumstances are mostly well known.  Following the notorious Iranian 2009 Presidential...

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

Ordinarily I ignore a film’s production backstory, since being mindful of those details undermines my immersion in the diegetic world, and ...

After studying directing at a film college, making several documentary films, and serving as Abbas Kiarostami’s assistant director in Unde...

The Iranian film, Café Transit (also known as Border Café , 2005) describes the struggles of a recently widowed mother of two small childr...