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Iranian Movies on Sundance Channel

Postby Ahreeman X » Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:12 pm

Iranian Movies on Sundance Channel

Sundance Channel shows many foreign, art and independent movies. Sundance Channel is on your local cable.

For more Iranian Movies on Sundance Channel, go to:

Sundance Channel
http://www.sundancechannel.com/

Search for "Iran"
and you will get the current month's list of screenings.

Every Month, Sundance Channel screens a number of award wining Iranian Movies.

This month:

Divorce, Iranian Style
Kim Longinotto
Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Divorce is a nasty affair, no matter where you live. However, as related in this revealing documentary by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini, many will be happy they don't live in Iran...

Friendly Persuasion: Iranian Cinema After The 1979 Revolution
Jamsheed Akrami
Trying to discover the reasons why Iran has become a center for award-winning contemporary world cinema, filmmaker Jamsheed Akrami presents an informative overview in interviews with 15 filmmakers, spanning three generations...

Iran, Veiled Appearances
Thierry Michel
Appeared at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival Free of the restrictions that would have hindered an Iranian filmmaker, Belgian documentarian Thierry Michel visits Iran with the goal of discovering the reality behind the pervasive stereotypes that define the...

At Five in the Afternoon
Samira Makhmalbaf
With sharp wit and elegant images, this film by Iran's Samira Makhmalbaf (THE APPLE) tells the story of Noqreh (Agheleh Rezaie), a contemporary woman in post-Taliban Kabul...

Blackboards
Samira Makhmalbaf
In her Cannes Jury Prize-winning feature film, 20-year-old Iranian filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf presents a bleak, yet often humorous, allegory about education in a world where existence itself is often perilous...

Leila
Dariush Mehrjui
Lifting the veil on the clash between modernity and Islamic tradition in Iran, veteran filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui presents the tale of a married couple, Lelia and Reza (Leila Hatami and Ali Mosaffa), whose happiness is compromised by the intrusion of Reza&...

Once Upon A Time, Cinema
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
A delightful, sentimental comedy from the Iran of the Ayatollahs? This Moshen Makhmalbaf (GABBEH, THE DAY I BECAME A WOMAN) valentine to the early years of the Iranian movie industry is eye opening in more ways than one...

Our Times
Rakshan Bani-Etemad
Filmmaker Rakshan Bani-Etemad, dubbed the First Lady of Iranian Cinema, presents a revealing documentary look at her country's 2001 presidential election by focusing on two surprising aspects of contemporary Iran's political universe...

The Apple
Samira Makhmalbaf
In a film of creative daring, Samira Makhmalbaf, the 17-year old daughter of one of Iran's cinematic masters, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, engages a real-life family to recreate on screen a bizarre story filled with humor and political implication...

The White Balloon
Jafar Panahi
With economy and disarming simplicity, Jafar Panahi elevates a seven-year-old Iranian girl's (Aida Mohammadkhani) quest to purchase a goldfish into an engrossing odyssey of frustration and negotiation...
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