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Lady Of The Roses

August 29, 2012 / Documentary, Ecology & the Environment, Iran, Mojtaba Mirtamasb, Movie Trailers, Persian

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Banoo-Ye Gol-E Released: 2008 Country: Iran Director: Mojtaba Mirtamasb Language: Persian Theme: Ecology & The Environment Genre: Documentary Summary ‘Lady of the Roses’ is the name given to the late Shahindokht Sanati, a lady who went to the Lalehzaar region of Kerman before the Islamic revolution. She replaced poppies with roses [...]

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The Wind Game

June 19, 2012 / Alireza Ghanie, Drama, Iran, Movie Trailers, Persian, Philosophy & Ethics

The Wind Game is about love, death and a spiritual quest for a homeland. A young man is searching for his father, and encounters a man who relates a story to him. The young man then has a visionary dream that he writes down in a letter to his old friend, an elderly Poet in Austria.

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Rumi – Poet Of The Heart

June 19, 2012 / Art & Music, Documentary, Haydn Reiss, Iran, Movie Trailers, Persian

The surprising bestselling poet in America is a thirteenth-century Sufi poet and mystic named Jelaluddin Rumi. For seven hundred years, Rumi’s writings have enchanted, inspired, and enlightened Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus, and Buddhists.

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Lesson From Bam

June 19, 2012 / Alireza Ghanie, Documentary, History, Iran, Movie Trailers, Persian

Made 40 days after the 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran killed over 68,000 people and destroyed the city’s ancient mud-brick citadel, Lesson from Bam honors the Great Citadel – a heritage that is gone, but a memory that should be kept.

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Heiran

June 19, 2012 / Drama, Family & Relationships, Iran, Movie Trailers, Persian, Shalizeh Arefpour

This film is the story of a 17 year old rural girl, Mahi, who comes from a war-stricken family in southern Iran. Mahi falls in love with an Afghan student named Heiran, who has came to her village to work. Mahi’s family is strictly against her marriage to an Afghan. Mahi must now choose between her family and her love for the Afghan student, Heiran.

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Gilaneh

June 19, 2012 / Drama, Iran, Movie Trailers, Persian, Rakshan Bani Etemad & Mohsen Abdolvahab, War & Military

The film illustrates the love and devotion a mother has for her son and daughter even though the violence of war destroys their dreams.

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Felicity Land

June 19, 2012 / Drama, Family & Relationships, Iran, Maziar Miri, Movie Trailers, Persian, Recommendations

Felicity Land unearths betrayals and marital crises in an affluent area of Teheran.

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Gold And Copper

June 19, 2012 / Drama, Family & Relationships, Homayoun Asadian, Iran, Movie Trailers, Persian

The story focuses on a Koranic student, Seyed, who has just moved to Tehran with his wife, Zahra, and two small children.

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The Color Of Paradise

June 19, 2012 / Drama, Family & Relationships, Iran, Majid Majidi, Movie Trailers, Persian

This film tells the story of Mohammad, who after a year in Tehran learning to read Braille, returns to his village with his widowed father. His Father fears that a blind son will prevent him from marrying again, so he puts Mohammad into an apprenticeship program as a carpenter.

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Baran

June 19, 2012 / Drama, Family & Relationships, Iran, Majid Majidi, Movie Trailers, Persian

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Released: 2001 Country: Iran Director: Majid Majidi Language: Persian Theme: Family & Relationship Genre: Drama Summary The story is set during recent times in which there are a large number of Afghan refugees living on the outskirts of Tehran. Although almost a silent movie, Baran won a number of awards both nationally and internationally for [...]

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Amin

June 19, 2012 / Art & Music, Documentary, Iran, Movie Trailers, Persian, Shahin Parhami

Amin is the story of an ancient musical tradition and one man’s struggle to preserve it. It is told using a unique approach to documentary storytelling that challenges the boundaries of fiction and reality.

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Maryam’s Sins

September 26, 2011 / Documentary, Iran, Movie Trailers, Parisa Shahandeh, Persian, Religion

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Gonah-E Maryam Released: 2004 Country: Iran Director: Parisa Shahandeh Language: Persian Theme: Religion Genre: Documentary Summary In southwest Iran, a man commits a ‘chastity murder’ — he beheads his 7-year-old daughter when he believes that she had been raped by her uncle. Through interviews with the family members (including two young children [...]

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