Category: Legacy

  • November 23, 2020
    Ehsan Khoshbakht resurrects the era of Iranian popular cinema with his grip on the VHS archive and a tremendous amount…
  • November 23, 2020
    The journalist and filmmaker Mina Akbari looks at an old photograph showing seventy former members of the editorial staff of…
  • November 23, 2020
    Largely unnoticed by western audiences, the genre of Iranian nature films has reached a remarkable level. It takes us into…
  • November 23, 2020
    The teacher Bakhtiyar was transferred to the Kurdish-speaking part of Iran. Social surveillance at home and at school makes it…
  • November 23, 2020
    The culture and history of the multicultural port city of Bandar Abbas is very different from that of central Iran.…
  • November 23, 2020
    2.5 million Afghans seek protection from war, misery and persecution in neighbouring Iran. Often without documents, they hope for a…
  • November 23, 2020
    Because of an upcoming state visit, the streets are "cleaned" of homeless people, sex workers and drug addicts and these…
  • November 23, 2020
    Iran in the 1960s: In a wasteland in the south of the country, an old prison fortress is to make…
  • November 23, 2020
    The notorious criminal judge Nourollah Aziz-Mohammadi has sentenced 4000 people to death in his 45 years of service - a…
  • November 23, 2020
    Abdol-Hamid, from the border area between Iran and Pakistan, falls in love with Faezeh from Tehran. Soon after the wedding,…