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Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 281 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
Abbas Kiarostami first came to international attention for his wondrous, slyly self-referential trilogy of films set in the rural Iranian town of Koker. Poised delicately between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, these lyrical fables exemplify both the gentle humanism and playful sleight of hand that defines the director's sensibility. Films include: Where Is The Friend's House? (1987); And Life Goes On (1992); Through The Olive Trees (1994)....
2) Cold Sweat
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Persian
Description
Afrooz is the captain of the Iranian National Futsal Team, a women’s indoor soccer team. A long-held dream to play the Asian Games final is shattered when Afrooz’ husband imposes a travel restriction on her. Furious, Afrooz stands up against the patriarchal Iranian system. But will she win this battle?
3) Inversion
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Persian
Description
Tehran's air pollution has reached maximum levels because of thermal inversion. Unmarried 30- something Niloofar lives with her aged mother, and stays busy with her alterations shop. When doctors insist that her mother must leave smoggy Tehran for her respiratory health, Niloofar’s brother and family elders decide that she must also move away to accompany her mother. Niloofar is torn between family loyalty and living her own life and pursuing a...
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Persian
Description
A tale of one middle-aged man who wishes to die in a society where suicide is considered as an abomination. Driving in the hills above Tehran, he meets an assortment of different characters : Afghans, Kurds, Turks, prisoners of the desert, a soldier, a seminary student and a museum employee, each with reasons to turn down the job : fear, religious scruples and humanist revulsion at a life wilfully squandered.
5) Ten
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Persian
Description
TEN sequences in the emotional lives of six women and the challenges that they face at one particular moment in those lives, that could just as easily be ten sequences in the emotional life of the one same woman…
6) Beach Flags
Publisher
Salaud Morisset
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (14 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Persian
Description
Vida is a young Iranian lifeguard. Popular on her team, she is determined to fight inorder to be the one to participate in an international competition in Australia. However,when Sareh who is as fast and talented as her, joins the team, Vida will have to face anunexpected situation. Nominated for the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
7) Tehran Taboo
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Persian
Description
In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation. Nevertheless, women invariably end up on the bottom rung of the...
Publisher
New Europe Film Sales
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Persian
Description
On a cold winter night in modern Tehran, a couple of young lovers run into a serious problem, and they have just a few hours to come up with a solution. They go from hospital to hospital in search for help, but none of the hospitals will admit the young woman to provide her with the medical attention she desperately requires. While they try to find a way to solve the problem, they have to hide what is happening from their parents. Moreover, their...
9) Simulation
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures*
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Persian
Description
An elliptical study of cause and effect that traces, in reverse-chronological order, the aftermath of an unwarranted visit between three friends and a mysterious older man. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival.**
10) Tattoo
Publisher
Salaud Morisset
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (15 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Persian
Description
To renew her driving license, a young woman needs to be psychologically approved by the police hospital because of her TATTOOs. They make her get undressed to check her tattoos. The girl burst into tears under the pressure. Now, her mental balance is questioned. The girl does not tolerate the situation, forgets about getting her driver's license and flees from the hospital.
11) Sib
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Persian
Description
Based on a true story: in the South part of Teheran, several families have got together to denounce their neighbours to the Social Services for not letting their children out of the house. A social worker is put in charge of the inquiry. She discovers that the two twins, aged 11, have been living behind bars in their house ever since birth. The father’s argument is that:“My daughters are like flowers. They musn’t be exposed to the sun or they...
12) 3 Faces
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Persian
Description
Actress Behnaz Jafari is distraught when she comes across a young girl's video plea for help after her family prevents her from taking up her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker Jafar Panahi to help with the young girl's troubles. They travel by car to the rural Northwest, where they have encounters with the charming and generous folk of the girl's mountain village. But Behnaz and Jafar also discover...
13) Sun Children
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Persian
Description
Official Oscar Entry for Iran, SUN CHILDREN is the story of 12-year-old ALI and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to make fast money. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find a hidden treasure underground. He recruits his gang, but first, to gain access to the tunnel, the children must enroll at the Sun School, a charitable...
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Persian
Description
After five years of studying in Paris, Arash has struggled to adapt to life in France and has decided to return to Iran. In the hope of changing his mind, his two friends take him on one last trip across France. Official Selection at the **BFI London Film Festival**. *"Goormaghtigh reinvigorates the summertime road-trip genre with this lyrical, keenly observed, acutely political comedy." - Richard Brody, **New Yorker***
15) Ava
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Persian
Description
A gripping debut about a young girl’s coming-of-age in a strict, traditional society. Living with her well-to-do parents in Tehran, Ava is a bright and focused teen whose concerns — friendships, music, social status, academic performance — resemble that of nearly any teenager. When Ava’s mistrustful and overprotective mother questions her relationship with a boy — going so far as to visit a gynecologist — Ava is overwhelmed by a newfound...
16) About Elly
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (118 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Persian
Description
From the Academy Award winning director of *A Separation* and *The Salesman* comes this gripping mystery set among a group of old friends on a holiday retreat. With the return of their friend Ahmad from Germany, a group of old college pals (two married couples and a brother and sister, along with three young kids) decide to reunite for a weekend outing by the Caspian Sea. The fun starts right away as they quickly catch on to the plan of lively Sepideh,...
17) The Charmer
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Persian
Description
A NY Times Critics Pick, Milad Alami’s award-winning debut film THE CHARMER, about Esmail an Iranian man seeking a Danish bride, is an absorbing, slow-burning thriller that explores race, class, and immigrant identity.
18) There is no evil
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
Mohammad Rasoulof delivers a piercing drama about a subject he knows well: the costs of living under a repressive, brutal government. Winner of the Golden Bear, the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, There Is No Evil is a film in four chapters, each telling a different story related to the death penalty in contemporary Iran. The first story concerns a family man who, as we come to see, pays a grave moral price for his comfortable middle-class...
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