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1.The Color of Paradise starring: Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi, Farahnaz Safari, Elham Sharifi directed by: Majid Majidi March 13, 2001
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This is a masterpiece that touches our hearts. No more words. Don't miss it and enjoy it as I did !!

2.Where Is the Friend's Home? starring: Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Kheda Barech Defai, Iran Outari, Ait Ansari directed by: Abbas Kiarostami February 29, 2000
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I saw this film in a film festival years ago, the first from Iran I ever saw, and I was hooked. The simple humanity of the story and the surroundings completely touched me. Just my 2 cents worth, since other reviewers tell the story line very well. Would love to see this on DVD.

3.Gabbeh starring: Shaghayeh Djodat, Hossein Moharami, Rogheih Moharami, Abbas Sayah, Parvaneh Ghalandari directed by: Mohsen Makhmalbaf June 08, 1999
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Note: Farsi with English subtitles. Synopsis: While an old couple sit by the side of a stream washing a carpet (gabbeh), an attractive woman named Gabbeh (Shaghayeh Djodat) appears and begins to tell the story of her life. Before the tale comes to a conclusion you've learned not only about the young girl, but the meaning of life itself. Released in '97, 'Gabbeh' is one of the most non-linear, intoxicating films I've ever seen. The colors are so intense, the landscape so exotic and the customs so vibrate one fills as though they've moved beyond the mundane world and entered into a another world of mythic proportions. There is so much to digest from this film; insights into the life and culture of a nomadic society, the magnificent cinematography and the manner in which filmmaker ... Read More

4.Children of Heaven starring: Mohammad Amir Naji, Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi, Nafise Jafar-Mohammadi, Fereshte Sarabandi directed by: Majid Majidi January 02, 2001
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I experienced this film for a second time at the Denver Film Festival this weekend with the director in attendance. Shot in Tehran, critically-acclaimed Iranian screenwriter-director Majid Majidi's 1998 film, Children of Heaven (Bacheha-ye Aseman), tells the simple, delightful story of a boy (Ali) who, after accidentally losing his sister Zahra's shoes, must share his own sneakers with her. Fearing punishment, the siblings then decide to keep their plight a secret from their parents and teachers, knowing their parents have no money to buy Zahra a replacement pair. This leads to a series of adventures for Ali and Zahra. Meanwhile, as Zahra envies the shoes a schoolmate is wearing, Ali enters a foot race, desperately hoping to win his sister a new pair of sneakers. In many ways, Majidi's film is reminiscient ... Read More

5.The White Balloon starring: Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kafili, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Anna Borkowska, Mohammad Shahani directed by: Jafar Panahi July 29, 1997
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Through this curiously simple story, Abbas Kiarostami displays a breathtaking exploration around the social body of the Iranian nation, about a seven years old girl who, in the eve of the New year- 1374 according the Iranian calendar- in her desire to buy a goldfish, loses her money on the way. Meanwhile, two dervishes, a gentle old lady, a distracted tailor, a talkative soldier, her brother and an afghan refugee will accompany her in order to help and comfort her, around that unpleasant fact. Apparently, it's a comedy, but there is a lot of nestled issues around, becoming a true beautiful story loaded of peerless humanity. The main highlight is the overwhelming natural performance of this actress Aida Mohammadkhani who really stole the show all the way. After you watch it, you ... Read More

6.Taste of Cherry (Ws Sub) starring: Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi, Mir Hossein Noori directed by: Abbas Kiarostami June 16, 2000
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There is the old, and often neglected, nostrum about `gilding the lily.' I was reminded of this watching Abbas Kiarostami's acclaimed 1997 film Taste Of Cherry (Ta'm E Guilass), co-winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, for while it comes close to being a great film for the bulk of its running time of 99 minutes (not the oft-claimed 95 minutes), its much discussed ending, of breaking the fourth wall (ala Ingmar Bergman, circa the 1960s) to reveal what has just been witnessed is all a film, is one of the worst endings for a film of quality I've seen; perhaps even worse than the tacked on uplifting ending to Akira Kurosawa's otherwise stellar Rashomon. The basic problem with the ending is that, unlike in Bergman's run of self-conscious films (Persona, Hour Of The Wolf, Shame), the big `revelation' that the ... Read More

7.Time for Drunken Horses starring: Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini, Madi Ekhtiar-dini, Kolsolum Ekhtiar-dini directed by: Bahman Ghobadi July 29, 2003
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This is film that requires patience and close attention to appreciate. It's definitely not for everyone, but those who enjoy obscure little gems will want to give this one a look. It took me a while to understand the plot, and then my interest in the movie increased significantly. As others have commented, the film provides a candid glimpse of the austere, dangerous life that many Kurds in northern Iraq must endure. This is a lifestyle that will amaze and startle most viewers who live in developed countries. Without spoiling the plot, I'll simply state that this is a film of family love and sacrifice that will touch your heart. Just remember that the story doesn't follow the typical Hollywood formula. Be patient and ENJOY!

8.Leila starring: Leila Hatami, Ali Mosaffa, Jamileh Sheikhi, Mohamad Reza Sharifinia, Turan Mehrzad directed by: Dariush Mehrjui April 17, 2001
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I must admit that I'm a bit surprised by many of the others' reviews--it seems as though many others turned the film off before the very final scene, the last words and glimpse of Leila. That one moment in the film turns the entire film around--and left me with a much richer view of the film than the more obvious interpretation. The devastation of that film is not what "happens" to Leila, which has been seen by some has her "choice," but what happens to the little girl. For in that last scene, we finally learn of Leila's determination all along, and her manipulation of her very limited conditions, given the family pressures! So a woman who began the movie as innocent, perhaps naive, but certainly cowed by pressures learns throughout to manipulate the mother-in-law, the husband, and the second wife, allowing her to come out as victim and ... Read More

9.The Cyclist starring: Firouz Kiani, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mohammad Reza Maleki, Esmail Soltanian, Moharram Zaynalzadeh directed by: Mohsen Makhmalbaf November 11, 1998
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Right now Mohsen Makhmalbaf is the foreign film director whose work I am devouring at every opportunity. "The Cyclist" ("Bicycleran") made in 1987, is one of the Iranian director's earliest films but still evinces the visual sophistication that has marked all of his work. The title character is Nasim (Moharram Zaynalzadeh), an Afghan refugee who has been digging wells desperately needs money to pay his wife's medical bills. Unable to find a job, Nasim tries several underhanded ploys to make money, all of which fail. Then a sleazy circus promoter finds out Nasim once won a three day bicycle marathon. With no where else to turn, Nasim agrees to participate in an even more grueling test, riding in a circle day and night for a week in a vacant lot on the outskirts of town. People pay to watch Nasim ride in circles, having been told of his dire circumstances. ... Read More

10.The Key (Kelid) starring: Mahnaz Anasrian, Emad Taheri, Amir Mohammad Pourhassan, Abbas Jafari, Fatemeh Asar directed by: Ebrahim Forouzesh August 14, 2000
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Right now Mohsen Makhmalbaf is the foreign film director whose work I am devouring at every opportunity. "The Cyclist" ("Bicycleran") made in 1987, is one of the Iranian director's earliest films but still evinces the visual sophistication that has marked all of his work. The title character is Nasim (Moharram Zaynalzadeh), an Afghan refugee who has been digging wells desperately needs money to pay his wife's medical bills. Unable to find a job, Nasim tries several underhanded ploys to make money, all of which fail. Then a sleazy circus promoter finds out Nasim once won a three day bicycle marathon. With no where else to turn, Nasim agrees to participate in an even more grueling test, riding in a circle day and night for a week in a vacant lot on the outskirts of town. People pay to watch Nasim ride in circles, having been told of his dire circumstances. ... Read More

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