Film

The Yellow of Love and Failure

I first saw Hana Kamkar on a theater stage in the 2000s, in a production where she played Anahita, the goddess of water

A Woman Who Learned How to Say No

Documentary cinema can be regarded as the birth of social critique within a visual structure a cinema that derives its identity

It Was Just an Accident opens with a scene inside a car. A man whose face is familiar to supporters of the Islamic government

An Elegy for a Butterfly Crucified by a Pin*

This provided an opportunity to revisit Dr. Ali Shariati’s views on cinema. This is not to suggest a comparison between Shariati and Foucault

All That’s Left of You, written and directed by Cherien Dabis, was one of the notable films screened in the “Broken Olive Branch” section

Rootless, Like Holly

The Uneven Encounter Between Realism and Metaphysics