#Iranian Movie

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night [دختری در شب تنها به خانه می‌رود] (2014)

Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour

DoP.: Lyle Vincent

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ABOUT ELLY | درباره الی (dir. Asghar Farhadi, 2009)

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Director Asghar Farhadi's first idea for the movie was the image of a man washing his father, who had Alzheimer's. He built the rest of the film around that scene.

A Separation (2011) is the first Iranian film to win an Oscar 🏆 !.

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Poetic way of storytelling

The Song of Sparrows (2008)

Directed by Majid Majidi

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1992 Abbas Kiarostami’s movie within a movie..the children of earthquakes

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کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک [Close-up] (1990) dir. Abbas Kiarostami | Biography/Docufiction

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014. The best Iranian vampire skater film you didn't know you were missing. The soundtrack doesn't miss either.

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Question for anyone who knows: Is there any other south asian vampire representation in media besides Armand from IWTV?

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TARANEH ALIDOOSTI & SHAHAB HOSSEINI in THE SALESMAN (dir. Asghar Farhadi, 2016)

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Women’s History Meme || Women from Ancient History (or legends) (5/5) ↬ Musa, Queen of Parthia (fl. 1st century CE)

If indeed Phraates IV is rightly to be identified with the Arsaces of the second Avroman parchment, and its date 291 to be referred to the Seleucid era, in 21/20 BC notwithstanding the harem tragedy recorded by Isidore, four of the Arsacid's queens were living, Olenieire, Cleopatra, Baseirta and Bistheibanaps. This fact did not deter Augustus from pursuing his Parthian policy by the gentler method of bestowing upon Phraates an Italian slave-girl of unusual accomplishments, known as Thea Musa. Whether the gesture was explicitly by way of compensation for the Arsacid's previous losses is a matter for conjecture, but Musa quickly became the favourite of the fierce old king, and before long gave birth to a son known as Phraataces (the diminutive form of the king's own name), or by other authorities designated as Phraates (V). The infant prince was soon regarded as a candidate for the succession, and Musa, who now as acknowledged queen achieved a position of great influence at the court, persuaded the king to send his older children to Rome, and thus leave the way clear for her son. As Phraates may well have perceived, the arrangement was advantageous also from another viewpoint. For if Phraataces with the help of his mother was to inherit the throne, his half-brothers would be safer if they resided outside his jurisdiction. In 2 B.C., when the aged Phraates IV was no doubt already ailing, Musa is reported to have had him taken off by poison, thus smoothing the succession of her son Phraataces. Subsequently Josephus reports that the mother became the consort of the son, an event which some authorities regard the coin of AD 2 (bearing the two portraits) as confirming. It is not clear whether this alliance, if such it was, should be regarded as an early instance of Zoroastrian kin-marriage; but the assumption is contradicted by the fact that the historian ascribed the subsequent Parthian rebellion against the new king partly to their detestation of such incest. The new king was driven from the throne in AD 4, and himself fled to Roman Syria, where he did not long survive. — The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 3, Part 1: The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanid Periods edited by Ehsan Yarshater

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Gabbeh Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf 1996 Iran

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Taste of Cherry (1997)

Dir. Abbas Kiarostami

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And Life Goes On, Abbas Kiarostami