Holy Spider – Ali Abbasi (2022)
It’s been quiet around Iran for many weeks now. When the young Mahsa Amin died at the hands of the country’s moral police, the support...
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Ballad of a White Cow — Maryam Moqadam, Behtash Sanaeeha (2020)
March 17, 2022
by Nadin Mai
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It’s like a dream. Or a nightmare. It’s mysterious, ominous. We’re in the centre of a prison court. The concrete walls are lined with male...
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Iro – Hadi Mohaghegh (2018)
July 27, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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What should I do? Should I go or not go? An old man mumbles these words into his beard. With a slight hunchback and visibly...
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Day 4 – Daughter…Father…Daughter (Rezaee)
December 4, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Day four allowed me to leave the cramped Chinese apartment. Instead I moved to an era of Iran I thought never existed. If anything, we...
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