The Film Sufi

Film noir master Jean-Pierre Melville’s penultimate film, Le Cercle Rouge ( The Red Circle , 1970), was perhaps his greatest and most ...

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

Iranian cinema, reflecting its national culture, has long been fascinated with how our reality is shaped by subjective personal experienc...

Films of Babak Payami: Secret Ballot - Babak Payami (2001)

Tangsir (1974) was an early action/adventure film of writer-director Amir Naderi and concerns the “heroic” actions of a man in response...