Film was less than ten years old at the time and many Iranians flocked to cinemas to watch these primitive masterpieces. However, it would be another 25 years before Iran would develop its own national cinema, a cinema of morality, humanity, abandon and integrity. Starting with the opening of the first film school in , an Iranian national cinema quickly began to develop. Since then, cinema has served as an ambassador for Iran, the heart and soul of a country marred by years of instability.
As a result Iranian national cinema has become an engaging, chaotic, soulful and poignant cinema. It remains a true testament to the resilience and industrious nature of the Iranian people and serves as a veracious voice through which Iran can tells its varied and compelling stories. This is a list of the 15 essential Iranian films of all time. We have curated for you, a list of some of the best, if not literally the best, feature films that were introduced to the whole world within the last 50 years.
Read more below to get started with the first 11 Iranian films out of 33 that you conspicuously should consider watching. The movie takes place during the war of Iran-Iraq when the southern part of Iran became a battlefield and everything was turning into ashes. Bashu is the name of a southern boy who loses his family and his house.
Consequently, he runs away for his life and hides in the back of a truck. The destination of the truck is a small village in the north of Iran and this is when everything begins. This movie is made by the great Iranian director, Bahram Beizai.
Some of the best actors of the time act in this movie such as Susan Taslimi, who is acting and directing in Sweden nowadays. Bahram Beizai uses some contrasts such as North and South, black and white, and dialectical differences. The director criticizes ethnocentric Persian nationalism while marking the tense relationship between nationalism and ethnicity.
It is worth mentioning that Bashu was the first Iranian movie to use the northern language of Iran, Gilaki. Although all the evidence shows that his son is dead and everyone believes so, he is still waiting for his beloved son, Yousef Joseph. Then one day at the airport Ghafoor encounters a strange woman Shirin, who has traveled from Europe to Iran looking for his brother, Khosrow, a missing soldier at war.
Both start searching for their loved ones. The ugliness of, war, the pain of loss, and waiting for someone is shown in the most magnificent way in this movie with a piece of elegant music composed by Majid Entezami which turned to a masterpiece and a memorable soundtrack for Iranians. A nice, smooth, and hilarious comedy directed by Saman Moghadam in It starts with the life story of Arjang, who was born in the 60s.
From his childhood days, he is in love with his friend Roya, who is a girl desperately trying to climb up the social latter each day of her life. You will dive into the life of Arjang and all the incidents that happen to him as he is madly in love with Roya. Iran is very open to the comedy. The number that shows the sale of the movie in the cinema is proof of this fact. You can laugh, you can feel pity for the protagonist of the film, played by Reza Attaran, one of the most famous comedians, and the other glamorous performances by Mahnaz Afshar and Vishka Asayesh.
Another thing which makes the movie worth watching is the lifestyle alternation that you get to see during the movie.
It somehow shows the history of Iran from the time of Shah, until the present era. Grant yourself some laugh with watching this hilarious must-see movie. The Ice Age movie was made in and it caught a lot of attention among regular people and critics.
This drama movie goes through the life of Babak and Monireh. The difficult social situation causes Babak to work a lot and him not being present at home causes a deep gap between him and his wife. Therefore, Monireh gets involved in another relationship which leads her to drug addiction and wickedness.
The movie is taboo-breaking in Iran since it shows women using drugs. It means being born in an important political family and therefore, being allowed to live an aristocratic life under the privilege and immunity of their family name.
Another aspect of the movie which makes you sit down and watch the movie till the end is its amazing edit which brought an award to the movie in Fajr Film Festival. You will see the story carrying on by the view of different people and it continues until you see what has really happened. One last thing that makes this movie worth watching is the amazing work of actors and the director. The creative Mostafa Kiayee has done a perfect job in choosing actors such as Mahtab Keramati, who has performed one of the best plays of her career, Farhad Aslani and Sahar Dolatshahi who won the award for the best supporting actress in Fajr Film Festival.
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