Ballad of a White Cow – Review Josefine Algieri February 10, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. In Ballad of a White Cow (Ghasideyeh gave sefid) director duo Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha explore injustice and...
There Is No Evil – Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Review Rafaela Sales Ross February 21, 2021 Reviews In 2017, director Mohammad Rasoulof had his passport seized by the Iranian government after screening his award-winning film A Man of Integrity in Cannes. Accused of “spreading propaganda” against the...
Short of the Week – Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded: Abbas Kiarostami Patrick Nabarro July 25, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19LQx_wbGTw One of the world’s great filmmakers, Abbas Kiarostami, died earlier this month. Among several superb directors in the Iranian new wave, Kiarostami shone...
The Past – Review Chris Davies March 26, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” - L.P. Hartley There are echoes of Hartley’s The Go-Between in Asghar Farhadi’s latest, depicting children caught in the fallout of...
