Tagged Iranian cinema

‘Social films’ (Film-e ejtema'i), understood in Iranian film reviews and journalistic discourse as socio-politically committed films characterized by realist aesthetics and mode of narration, have been a major ...

The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has showcased the New Iranian Cinema since a special focus in 1993 called “Spotlight Iran”. It has routinely highlighted particular peaks and trends, and has con...

Volume 1: The Artisanal Era, 1897–1941 and Volume 2: The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978 As I turn over the last page of volume two of Hamid Naficy’s A Social History of Iranian Cinema, I hunger for more a...

The inaugural Iranian Film Festival Australia kicked off in Brisbane on 4 August 2011 in spectacular fashion with a sell-out screening of Asghar Farhadi’s acclaimed new film Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (A Separatio...

Since the early 1990s, contemporary Iranian cinema, with its culture of auteurism and poetic consciousness, has continued to inspire lively critical discourse and popular acclaim. Recent scholarship has ten...