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Abbas Kiarostami’s Early Shorts and Features: Poetic Solutions to Philosophical Problems
Though the first two decades of the Iranian filmmaker’s career have long been underappreciated, this fertile period yielded philosophical and restlessly innovative works that reinvigorated both documentary and narrative-fiction cinema.
The Runner: Cycles and Circles of Desire
One of the first postrevolutionary Iranian films screened and celebrated internationally, Amir Naderi’s autobiographical masterpiece is a lyrical exploration of childhood that showcases the director’s gift for radical simplicity.
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 4
Chess of the Wind: The Glorious Miniature of an Upheaval
A long-obscure landmark of the Iranian New Wave, Mohammad Reza Aslani’s daringly ambiguous portrait of feudalism’s demise mirrors the revolutionary times in which it was made.