First visual exploration
The Green Wave
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Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
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Women in Shroud
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Wind and Fog
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The Birthday
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The Silent Majority Speaks
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teaser trailer
Iran wins first Golden Bear, from Youtube by Euronews
Iranian Documentary “Women In Shroud”: Execution by Stoning on YouTube by ArmorDinnerJacket
Sahand’s father has found work at an oil field and so the family must leave the fertile north and move to hot and arid southern Iran. But then the Iraq War breaks out, their house is destroyed in an Iraqi bombing raid and the boy’s mother is killed. Now that his wife has been killed and the house in ruins, Sahand’s father decides to return to his home town with Sahand and his twelve-year-old sister, Shooka. He hopes that the quiet beauty of the north of the country will help to heal Sahand’ trauma. Shortly afterwards, Sahand’s father returns to the oil fields in the south. Shooka begins to look after her brother, just as her mother would have. One day they accompany their grandfather on a fishing trip to a nearby lake. Not far away they notice a white goose that has been shot. Sahand remembers the white dress his mother was wearing when she he embraced him. Grandfather forbids Sahand to bring back the goose to their house but, during the night, the boy slips out to find the goose. He gets lost in the woods and Shooka and her friend set out in search of him. The longer their fruitless search continues the more Shooka begins to worry. But, just as they are about to give up, they see a white goose flying in the distance. Now they know where they can find Sahand.
source: Berlinale 2011
‘Berlinale awards Iran’s ‘Wind and Fog”, Press TV
A short synopsis from Column Productions:
A young man is followed in his process of becoming a woman through a transsexual operation in Iran, up to and beyond his operation.
We meet his boyfriend, other transsexuals (among them, a woman becoming a man), the doctors, a priest and especially his family. All of them are religious, all of them are changing lives, but why would a ‘free’ man choose to become an unfree woman and lead a veiled life from now on? A portrait of schizofrenic lives in a schizofrenic environment.
A short synopsis from IDFA 2010:
The Iranian presidential elections held on June 12, 2009 led to a great deal of civil unrest. Reports of widespread election fraud led to demonstrations, disturbances, violent opposition and a number of deaths. Countless cameras, many of them on mobile phones, filmed the events. These images of the streets of Tehran blend seamlessly with archive footage of earlier and often bloodily suppressed resistance movements. The world-famous footage of a young demonstrator dying are accompanied here by the 1906 battle song Tulips Rise from the Blood of the Nation’s Youth.