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Publisher
Varahonar Film Co.]
Pub. Date
c[1999], 2000
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
Mohammad joyfully returns to his tiny village on summer vacation from the Institute for the Blind in Tehran, unaware of his father's intention to disown him. Engaged to be married, the widowed man has kept Mohammad a secret from his fiancée, certain the boy's disability will destroy his only chance for happiness. With the wedding swiftly approaching, Mohammad's future hangs precariously in the balance as his father struggles against his destiny,...
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
After being let go from his job on an ostrich farm, a man leaves his small village to find work in the big city. As a motorcycle taxi driver, he soon becomes consumed with his passengers' lives, and is swept up in a world of greed. Now it is up to his family back home to help restore his caring and generous nature.
Publisher
Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
After their father dies, a family of five is forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when twelve-year-old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother Madi needs an immediate operation in order to remain alive. The family must go to any length to survive in the harshest of conditions, where even the horses are fed liquor to get them to work.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
A photographer and his young wife are stranded in a remote village after their car breaks down. The only adult inhabitant leaves with the photographer to find help, while the woman takes over the duties of teaching the village children whose parents are nowhere to be found.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
Follows a pair of young musicians, recently released from prison, on a mission to take their rock band to Europe. Forbidden by the authorities to play in Iran, they plan their escape abroad with a fast-talking music promoter. Vowing to play one last show before leaving Tehran, their dangerous mission takes them on a free-wheeling journey through the city's vibrant and diverse underground scene, home to an estimated 2,000 illegal independent bands....
6) Offside
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
During the 2006 Iran-Bahrain match, the Tehran soccer stadium roars with 100,000 cheering men and, officially, no women. According to Islamic custom, women are not permitted to watch or participate in men's sports. Many of the ambitious young female fans who manage to sneak into the arena are caught and sent to a holding pen, guarded by male soldiers their own age. Duty makes these young men and women adversaries, but duty can't overcome their shared...
7) F for fake
Series
Publisher
Criterion collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special ed.; widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies. Orson Welles uses examples from his own career, art forger Elmyr de Hory, & the Howard Hughes biography hoax of the 1970s.
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