#sepideh moghaddam

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Mystery House, California, USA,

Courtesy: Sepideh Moghaddam

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what are some good iranian films? i've seen persepolis and a girl walks home alone at night

This is such a vast question, because Iranian cinema is heterogenuous and huge.

From Ali Hatami to Khosrow Sinai (In the Alleys of Love) to Hajir Darioush (Serpent's Skin) to Abbas Kiarostami (Where Is the Friend's Home?) and Jafar Panahi (The Circle) to Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman).

But seems like you are interested in works by women directors?

The House is Black (Directed by Forugh Farrokhzad who was also a poet)

Divorce Iranian Style (1998, Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini)

Two Women (1999, Tahmineh Milani)

Daughters of the Sun (2000, Mariam Shahriar)

The Day I Became a Woman (2000, Marzieh Meshkini)

The Hidden Half (2001 , Tahmineh Milani)

Women's Prison (2002, Directed by Manijeh Hekmat)

Joy of Madness (2003, Hana Makhmalbaf)

The Fifth Reaction (2003, Tahmineh Milani)

Women Without Shadows (2003, Mahnaz Mohammadi)

Gilaneh (2004, Rakhshān Banietemad)

One Night (2005, Niki Karimi)

Cease Fire (2006, Tahmineh Milani)

On a Friday Afternoon (2006, Mona Zandi Haghighi)

Buddha Collapsed out of Shame (2007, Hana Makhmalbaf)

Three Women (2008, Directed by Manijeh Hekmat)

Travelogue (2008, Mahnaz Mohammadi)

We Are Half the Iran's Population (2009, Mahnaz Mohammadi)

Green Days (2009, Hana Makhmalbaf)

Tehran Without Permission (2009, Sepideh Farsi)

The City trilogy (Rakhshān Banietemad)

From Tehran to London (2012, Mania Akbari)

Hush! Girls Don't Scream (2013, Pouran Derakhshandeh)

Tales (2014, Rakhshān Banietemad)

Disappearance (2017, Farnoosh Samadi)

Silence (2017, Maryam Pirband)

The Invincible Diplomacy of Mr. Naderi (2018, Maryam Moghaddam)

16 Women from Teheran (2018, Bahar Ebrahim)

The Old Road (2018, Manijeh Hekmat)

When the Moon Was Full (2019, Narges Abyar)

African Violet (2019, Mona Zandi Haghighi)

Son-Mother (2019, Mahnaz Mohammadi)

180° Rule (2020, Farnoosh Samadi)

I Am Trying to Remember (2021, Pegah Ahangarani)

The Football Aficionado (2022, Sharmin Mojtahedzadeh & Paliz Khoshdel)

1001 Nights Apart (2022, Sarvnaz Alambeigi)

Colonel Soraya (2023, Leili Aaj)

Where Is the Friend's Home? (Short 2023, Amina Maher)