As of late, we’ve seen a growing interest among filmmakers and artists to integrate video chats and Skype or Zoom…
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Biography
‘What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov?’ MoMI 2024 Review: Maintaining Familial Bonds Through Pixelated and Lagging Video Calls
Drama
Sundance 2023 Review: ‘Baba’ is an Offbeat Short Film About Generational Divide and Disconnect in Familial Relationships
Maziyar Khatam’s short film “Baba,” co-directed by Anya Chirkova and Meran Ismailsoy, begins with a tense situation: Two men who…
Drama
Sundance 2023 Review: ‘Shayda’ is a Hard but Necessary Watch, a Chronicle of Abuse, Resilience, and Motherhood
Films like “Enough” and “Sleeping with the Enemy,” though good-intentioned, cannot escape the curse of Hollywood-ization. We like to see…
Drama
Review: Life Imitates Life Imitating Art; Panahi’s ‘No Bears’ is a Complex, Subversive Triumph
Jafar Panahi’s “No Bears” (“Khers nist,” original title) is a daring multi-hyphenate, pivoting from cranky comedy-of-manners to docu-fiction to operatic…
31 Days of Halloween
Review: ‘Under the Shadow’ Confronts Supernatural Horror Amid the Iran/Iraq Conflict
During the Iran/Iraq war in the 1980s, Tehran and its people witnessed the bloodiest years in their entire history. Set…
Drama
A Separation (PG-13)
For a film that begins with a divorce hearing, Asghar Farhadi’s 2011 Iranian film “A Separation” tries to show how far…