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Synopsis Karimâs life on an ostrich farm with his family in a rural village west of Tehran is turned upside down when a particulary ornery ostrich escapes his care at work and he is subsequently fired from his job. Karim then sets off toward the thriving metropolis of Tehran, where he finds work as a motorcycle taxi driver. Beautifully crafted, often sentimental and sometimes humorous, this moving story set among Iranian societyâs underprivileged explores how capitalism and technology corrupt...
Topic: The Song of Sparrows - Avaze Gonjeshk-ha (2008)
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Synopsis Karimâs life on an ostrich farm with his family in a rural village west of Tehran is turned upside down when a particulary ornery ostrich escapes his care at work and he is subsequently fired from his job. Karim then sets off toward the thriving metropolis of Tehran, where he finds work as a motorcycle taxi driver. Beautifully crafted, often sentimental and sometimes humorous, this moving story set among Iranian societyâs underprivileged explores how capitalism and technology corrupt...
Topic: The Song of Sparrows - Avaze Gonjeshk-ha (2008)
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Synopsis Mohammad, a boy at Tehran's institute for the blind, waits for his dad to pick him up for summer vacation. While waiting, he realizes a baby bird has fallen from its nest: he chases away a cat, finds the bird, climbs a tree, and puts it back. His father finally comes and takes him to their village where his sisters and granny await. The lad is a loving student of nature and longs for village life with his family, but his father is ashamed of him, wanting to farm the boy out to clear...
Topics: Range khoda (1999), Majid Majidi
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Synopsis In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17 years old Iranian worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives. Winner for Best Film at the Montreal Film Festival, this wonderfully romantic and uplifting story is from the acclaimed director of the Academy Award(R) nominee CHILDREN OF HEAVEN (Best Foreign Language Film, 1999). In a Tehran building site, a 17-year-old Iranian named Lateef is known more...
Topics: Baran - Hamsay-e khoda (2001), Majid Majidi
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Synopsis Mehrollah is a 14 year old boy who is forced to provide for his family after the death of his father to find a job, he travels to the southern parts of the country. Upon his return to his hometown, he notices certain changes in the family. Pedar (translated here as The Father, though the film's working title was The Stepfather) is about 14-year-old Mehrollah, whose father dies and who heads off to a southern port city to find work and support the family. When he returns home, however,...
Topics: The Father - Pedar (1996), Majid Majidi
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Synopsis Long - awaited Majid Majidi's new feature tells the story of Yusef, a 45 - year - old professor of literature. Having lost his eyesight when he was little, he has lived in the darkness. Now, he just enjoys a peaceful life with his wife and daughter. But when he visits France to get treatment for some other illness, his eyesight, in a bizarre twist, is regained. Back home, how can he reconcile what he has seen in his heart so far with reality? The film received the awards including the...
Topic: Beed-e majnoon (2005)
