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24 FRAMES - THE CRITERION COLLECTION PG) KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS REGION FREE BLU RAY £26.99
Experimental film consisting of 24 short films, which bridge the gap between Kiarostami's two favoured art forms, film and photography, as he looks at what happens before and after a photograph is taken.
3 FACES (15) 2018 IRAN PANAHI, JAFAR £15.99
An actress receives a video of a young girl in distress, pleading for help and claiming her conservative family is preventing her from realising her dream of studying at a prestigious drama school in Tehran. The actress sets out to find the girl in an remote mountain village.
A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT (16) 2014 IRAN AMIRPOUR, ANA LILY DVD – £17.99 BLU RAY – £22.99
Persian vampire horror, set in the fictional Iranian underworld, where discontented youngster Arash deals with life in the lawless town.
INVERSION (PG) 2016 IRAN BEHZADI, BEHNAM £15.99
With air pollution becoming so bad in Tehran, Niloofar and her elderly mother are advised to leave the city on health grounds. However Niloofar is reluctant to leave the city where she has a successful tailoring business and a budding romantic relationship. Will she decide to stay in the city or succumb to her family's wishes and move away with her ailing mother?
THE SALESMAN (12A) 2016 IRAN FARHADI, ASGHAR DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Asghar Farhadi returns with an Oscar-winning exploration of the potent power of pride, guilt and shame.
TASTE OF CHERRY/TEN ON TEN (PG) 1997/2004 IRAN KIAROSTAMI, A. BLU RAY ONLY £23.99
Suicidal Mr Badii drives through the outskirts of Tehran picking up random strangers and explains them why he is willing to dispense with his life. All he wants from the stranger is for one of them to place his body in a already dug grave and cover his body up.
TAXI TEHRAN (12) 2015 IRAN PANAHI, JAFAR £15.99
After being banned by the Iranian government from making films and placed under house arrest, Panahi poses as a taxi driver and drives around the busy streets of Tehran picking up passengers and recording their conversations. The passengers discusses the social challenges that Iranian citizens face on a daily basis.
TEHRAN - CITY OF LOVE (12) IRAN JABERANSARI, ALI £15.99
Personal trainer Hessam, singer Vahid and receptionist Mina intersect as they each search for love and happiness in the Iranian city.
TEHRAN TABOO (15) 2017 IRAN SOOZANDEH, ALI £15.99
Animated drama in which a group of strangers, with their own separate paths, each take risks in order to break away from their oppressive lives in an Islamic society. A woman wants nothing more than to work despite the protests of her husband, a mother takes desperate measures to provide for her son and an aspiring musician attempts to release an album despite its contradictions of Islamic values. They must carry out their lives in secrecy if they are to both keep themselves alive and find happiness.
UNDER THE SHADOW (15) 2016 IRAN ANVARI, BABAK £14.99
Iranian horror set in 1980s Tehran where a mother and daughter come to realise that their house has a demonic presence.
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24 FRAMES - THE CRITERION COLLECTION PG) KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS REGION FREE BLU RAY £26.99
Experimental film consisting of 24 short films, the work aims to bridge the gap between Kiarostami's two favoured art forms, film and photography, as he looks at what happens before and after a photograph is taken.
3 FACES (15) 2018 IRAN PANAHI, JAFAR £15.99
An actress receives a video of a young girl in distress, pleading for help and claiming her conservative family is preventing her from realising her dream of studying at a prestigious drama school in Tehran. The actress sets out to find the girl in an remote mountain village.
A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT (16) 2014 IRAN AMIRPOUR, ANA LILY DVD – £17.99 BLU RAY – £22.99
Persian vampire horror, set in the fictional Iranian underworld, where discontented youngster Arash deals with life in the lawless town.
A SEPARATION (PG) 2011 IRAN FARHADI, ASGHAR £15.99
Iranian drama about the far-reaching effects of an acrimonious divorce.
THE ABBAS KIAROSTAMI COLLECTION (6 discs) (15) IRAN £49.99
A collection of six films- 'Certified Copy' (2010), 'Ten' (2002), 'Taste of Cherry' (1997), 'The Wind Will Carry Us' (1999), 'ABC Africa' (2001) and the documentary '10 on Ten' (2004)
ABOUT ELLY (12) 2009 IRAN FARHADI, ASGHAR IRAN £15.99
Iranian drama following a group of friends from Tehran who go to the seaside for the weekend. One of the women invites Elly (Taraneh Alidoosti) her daughter's teacher, hoping to set her up with their recently divorced friend Ahmad (Shahab Hosseini), who has now emigrated to Germany. However, following an apparent attempt to rescue one of the children from drowning, Elly mysteriously disappears.
Has she drowned, or has she simply had enough of the group's not-so-subtle attempts to set her up with Ahmad?
THE APPLE (PG) 1997 IRAN SAMIRA MAKHMALBAF, SAMIRA £15.99
Based on a true story of two sisters lock away by their parents.
APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOUR (15) 2014 AKHAVAN, DESIREE £15.99
Brooklyn-set comedy about young woman in her twenties who has just broken up with her girlfriend but still
hides the truth about her sexuality from her conservative Iranian parents.
AT FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON (U) 2003 IRAN MAKHMALBAF, SAMIRA £15.99
Set in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban, the story follows a young woman eager to
take advantage of the new freedoms and opportunities afforded to women.
BLACKBOARDS (PG) 2000 IRAN MAKHMALBAF, SAMIRA £19.99
Story of two travelling teachers set on the Iran/Iraq border.
CERTIFIED COPY (12) 2010 KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS IN ENGLISH £15.99
Italian-set romantic drama starring Juliette Binoche and William Shimell. Set over the course of one day in rural Tuscany, the film follows the enigmatic relationship between a man and woman who appear to have just met. BLU RAY £19.99
CHILDREN OF HEAVEN/BACHEHA-YE ASEMAN (PG) 1997 IRAN MAJIDI, MAJID £15.99
The accidental loss of a pair of shoes causes problems for a young Iranian boy in this award-winning family drama.
THE CIRCLE (PG) 2000 IRAN PANAHI, JAFAR £19.99
Set in a single day it explores the harsh lives of women.
CIRCUMSTANCE (15) 2012 IRAN KESHAVARZ, MARYAM £15.99
Drama following the relationship between two young women who face the cultural constraints of modern-day Iran. Teenager Atafeh Hakimi (Nikohl Boosheri) is the daughter of rich parents, Firouz (Soheil Parsa) and Azar (Nasrin Pakkho), and sister to Mehran (Reza Sixo Safai), who practices religion obsessively as he recovers from a drug addiction. Along with her best friend, Shireen Arshadi (Sarah Kazemy), Atafeh attends underground parties and explores her sexuality, despite the restrictions of Iranian culture.
Believing Atafeh to have a bad influence on her, Mehran becomes determined to save Shireen but his actions threaten to tear his family apart.
CLOSE-UP (U) 1990 IRAN KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS £19.99
Story of an unemployed movie buff who is mistaken for a famous film director.
COLOUR OF PARADISE (PG) 2000 IRAN MAJID MAJIDD £19.99
Sensitive film about a blind boy.
CRIMSON GOLD (12) 2003 IRAN PANAHI, JAFAR £19.99
The film shows the events that drive an essentially ordinary, decent man to crime.
DAY I BECAME A WOMAN (U) 2000 IRAN MESHKINI, MARZIEH £19.99
Compelling and poignant study of problems faced by women n Eastern Societies.
DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE/RUNAWAY (E) 1998/2001 IRAN LONGINOTTO, K/MIR-HOSSEINI, Z £12.99
The film takes you where few Western cameras have gone before; inside an Iranian divorce court.
FIVE DEDICATED TO OZU (U) 2003 IRAN KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS £19.99
This is a richly poetic, radically minimalist film, featuring five extended sequences.
FIREWORKS WEDNESDAY (12) 2006 IRAN FARHADI, ASGHAR £15.99
An engrossing portrait of three marriages set against the backdrop of the Persian New Year.
FRONTIER BLUES (12A) IRAN 2009 JALALI, BABAK £15.99
Film portrays the isolated and slightly surreal lives of four male residents of the remote Gorgan province on the border between Iran and Turkmenistan.
HALF MOON (PG) IRAN 2006 GHOBADI, BAHMAN £19.99
Film centred on legendary Kurdish musician Mamo, as he prepares to give his last performance at a concert held in Iraqi Kurdistan.
THE HUNTER (15) 2010 IRAN PITTS, RAFI £15.99
Brooding thriller with strong political overtones set in Iran.
INVERSION (PG) 2016 IRAN BEHZADI, BEHNAM £15.99
With air pollution becoming so bad in Tehran, Niloofar and her elderly mother are advised to leave the city on health grounds. However Niloofar is reluctant to leave the city where she has a successful tailoring business and a budding romantic relationship. Will she decide to stay in the city or succumb to her family's wishes and move away with her ailing mother?
ITS WINTER (12) 2006 IRAN PITTS, RAFI £19.99
A young Iranian man, desperate and with his family facing grim financial straits, decides to move abroad to seek work. His family, after not hearing from him in an increasingly long time, begins to doubt he'll be back at all.
JOY OF MADNESS (PG) 2003 IRAN Makhmalbaf, Hana £19.99
Fourteen year-old Hana Makhmalbaf’s record of her director sister Samira’s attempts to cast the film At Five in the Afternoon.
MANUSCRIPTS DON'T BURN (15) 2013 IRAN RASOULOF , MOHAMMAD £17.99
Daring and politically provocative thriller in which two government officials are on a mission to arrest an author who manages to secretly write down his memoirs, despite being under strict monitoring by the national security service.
NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS (12A) IRAN 2009 BAHMAN GHOBADI £15.99
Kurdish-Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi directs this drama set in the vibrant underground music scene of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
OFFSIDE (PG) 2006 IRAN PANAHI, JAFAR £19.99
When women banned from the country’s football grounds, a group of football mad girls have
only one wayof infiltrating the crowd...by disguising themselves as boys.
ONE. TWO. ONE. (15) 2011 IRAN AKBARI, MANIA £12.99
Composed of a series of vignettes set in different locations, each episode tells the story of how the young woman came to be disfigured and how she now feels isolated from her former friends and family as she reassesses her ideas on love, loss and personal identity.
PARDÉ/CLOSED CURTAIN (12) 2013 IRAN PARTOVI, K/PANAHI, J. £15.99
A screenwriter, his dog and a young woman have barricade themselves in a secluded villa with drawn curtains and eye each other suspiciously, prisoners in a house midst of a hostile environment. Maybe the film is a reflection on director Jafar Panahi 20-year Iranian ban on filmmaking.
LE PASSÉ/THE PAST (12) 2013 IRAN FARHADI, ASGHAR FRENCH/FARSI
DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) returns to Paris from his homeland of Iran at the request of his wife Marie (Bérénice Bejo) who wants to divorce him. When he arrives he finds that his soon-to-be ex-wife has begun a relationship with Samir (Tahar Rahim), a younger man with a child of his own and a spouse.
While they begin proceedings for their separation, all involved are forced to deal with unresolved issues from their past.
THE PATIENCE STONE (15) 2012 IRAN RAHIMI, ATIQ £15.99
Award-winning film by about a young woman who cares for her comatose husband. She takes the opportunity to reveal the truth to her husband about her dreams and desires as well as her loneliness, suffering and heartbreak.
PERSEPOLIS (15) FRANCE 2007 SATRAPI,M /PARONNAUD, V DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Based on the graphic novel about her own experiences writer and director Marjane Satrapi draws a poignant story about a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, when people¹s hopes were dashed as fundamentalists took power. Contains both French and English version.
THE RAFI PITTS COLLECTION (15) IRAN £28.99
Contains - Sanam (2000), It's Winter (2006) & The Hunter (2010) Asghar Farhadi returns with an Oscar-winning exploration of the potent power of pride, guilt and shame.
ROSEWATER (15) 2014 STEWART, JON £17.99
Biographical drama adapted from the memoirs of Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari. The film tells the story behind Bahari (Gael García Bernal)'s imprisonment by the Iranian government after an appearance on the US late-night talk show .
THE SALESMAN (12A) 2016 IRAN FARHADI, ASGHAR DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Asghar Farhadi returns with an Oscar-winning exploration of the potent power of pride, guilt and shame.
SANAM (15) 2000 IRAN PITTS, RAFI £15.99
The tale of a woman who is left to raise her son and work the family farm herself after her husband is shot.
SECRET BALLOT (15) 2001 IRAN PAYAMI, BABAK £19.99
Comedy about a grumpy soldier accompanying a young woman election agent on election day.
THE SHEIK (15) 2014 HECHT, IGAL £17.99
Film about Iranian professional wrestler Khosrow Vaziri. The films follows Khosrow from his upbringing in Iran
to his success in the World Wrestling Federation.
SHIRIN (PG) 2008 IRAN KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS £19.99
The film shows us an audience of more than 100 women who are deeply absorbed in watching a film we never see. We observe instead how the drama plays out on the faces of the audience.
STRAY DOGS (15) 2005 IRAN Meshkini, Marzieh £19.99
Set in post-Taliban Afghanistan, the film follows two homeless children in the streets of Kabul.
TASTE OF CHERRY/TEN ON TEN (PG) 1997/2004 IRAN KIAROSTAMI, A. BLU RAY ONLY £23.99
Suicidal Mr Badii drives through the outskirts of Tehran picking up random strangers and explains them why he is willing to dispense with his life. All he wants from the stranger is for one of them to place his body in a already dug grave and cover his body up.
TAXI TEHRAN (12) 2015 IRAN PANAHI, JAFAR £15.99
After being banned by the Iranian government from making films and placed under house arrest, Panahi poses as a taxi driver and drives around the busy streets of Tehran picking up passengers and recording their conversations. The passengers discusses the social challenges that Iranian citizens face on a daily basis.
TEN (12) 2002 IRAN KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS £19.99
Perceptive and revealing portrait of contemporary Tehran.
TEHRAN - CITY OF LOVE (12) IRAN JABERANSARI, ALI £15.99
Personal trainer Hessam, singer Vahid and receptionist Mina intersect as they each search for love and happiness in the Iranian city.
TEHRAN TABOO (15) 2017 IRAN SOOZANDEH, ALI £15.99
Animated drama in which a group of strangers, with their own separate paths, each take risks in order to break away from their oppressive lives in an Islamic society. A woman wants nothing more than to work despite the protests of her husband, a mother takes desperate measures to provide for her son and an aspiring musician attempts to release an album despite its contradictions of Islamic values. They must carry out their lives in secrecy if they are to both keep themselves alive and find happiness.
THIS IS NOT A FILM/IN FILM NIST (U) 2010 IRAN MIRTAHMASB, MOTJABA/PANAHI, JAFAR £14.99
Documentary following Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi as he appeals against his six-year jail sentence and 20-year ban on making films. Accused of creating propaganda opposing the regime, Panahi has also been prohibited from talking to the press or exiting the country. Under house arrest while awaiting the decision of the appeal, he worries the result may mean the end of his artistry and begins to capture a day in his life.
He shares the story of a film he was going to make, is startled by fireworks and gunshot sounds outside his apartment, tunes into the news and finds out about the Japanese tsunami and talks to a young man who works in the building.
TICKETS (15) 2005 UK/ITALY/IRAN Kiarostami / Loach / Olmi £19.99
Three directors bring to life three interwoven stories of love, chance and sacrifice that take
place on a train journey from Austria to Rome.
TIME FOR DRUNKEN HORSES (PG) 2000 IRAN GHOBADI, BAHMAN £19.99
After their parents deaths three children are left to survice on their own.
TURTLES CAN FLY (15) 2004 IRAN GHOBADI, BAHMAN KURDISH £15.99
Set near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children
like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.
UNDER THE SHADOW (15) 2016 IRAN ANVARI, BABAK £14.99
Iranian horror set in 1980s Tehran where a mother and daughter come to realise that their house has a demonic presence.
WIND WILL CARRY US (U) IRAN 1999 KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS £19.99
Strangers visitor a small village in Iranian Kurdistan and let slip that they are searching for treasure in the local cemetery.
WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (15) IRAN 2009 SHIRIN NESHAT £15.99
Acclaimed photographer Shirin Neshat makes her directorial debut with this incisive and sumptuously filmed reflection on the pivotal moment in history that led directly to the Islamic
revolution and the Iran we know today. Women Without Men chronicles the intertwining lives of four Iranian women during the summer of 1953; a cataclystic moment in Iranian history when an American-led, British-backed coup d’etat broght down the democratically elected Prime Minister. Over the course of several days the four women are brought together against the backdrop of political social turmoil.
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