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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, this moving, richly imagined novel is narrated by the ghost of Bahar, a thirteen-year-old girl, whose family is compelled to flee their home in Tehran for a new life in a small village, hoping in this way to preserve both their intellectual freedom and their lives. But they soon find themselves caught up in the post-revolutionary chaos that sweeps across their ancient land. Bahar's mother,...
2) Tali girls
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
This powerful and intimate look at the lives, loves, horrors and dreams of girls and women in an Afghan mountain village under Taliban rule offers a vivid picture of the endless cycle of suffering but also of resilience, hope and courage.
Publisher
Film Movement, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
Yalda: "The lights and cameras are all in position, and the show goes live. Tonight's guest is Maryam, a young woman condemned to death for murdering her husband. With her in the studio is Mona, the daughter of the deceased. Maryam is supposed to beg Mona for forgiveness. If Mona grants it, Maryam will live, and the show's sponsors will pay Mona a reward. If she denies it, Maryam will die. Millions of television viewers are tuning in on the night...
6) No bears
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
One of the world's great cinema artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite being banned from filmmaking by the Iranian government since 2010. In No Bears completed shortly before his imprisonment in 2022, Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, a dissident filmmaker who relocates to a rural border town to direct a film remotely...
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