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Gabbeh
Gabbeh (1996)
, 1h12
Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Romance

Un couple de personnes âgées marche vers la rivière afin de laver leur gabbeh. Quand le tapis est étalé sur le sol, une jeune fille, qui reçoit le nom de Gabbeh, semble surgir comme par magie d'un des motifs tissés de celui-ci. Le film présente son histoire et celle de sa famille, entre autres de son oncle qui espère trouver une épouse, et surtout de son désir vis-à-vis d'un jeune homme avec qui elle espère se marier.
Salaam Cinema
Salaam Cinema (1995)
, 1h15
Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary
Actors Mohsen Makhmalbaf

A well-known Iranian director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, plans to make a film for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of cinema. He placed an advertisement in a newspaper in order to hire one hundred actors. He has prepared 1000 application forms, but 5000 people show up. The result is a riot in which the applicants are trampled on and wounded. Mohsen Makhmalbaf auditions dozens of men and women in front of the camera; their statements, which are by turns funny and touching, reveal the reality of life in Iran. Thus, the director enables us to see and understand those intellectuals, students and children and above all the women, who can not normally be heard or seen. It shows, once again, that cinema is of vital importance in countries such as Iran.
Sara
Sara (1993)
, 1h32
Directed by Dariush Mehrjui
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Niki Karimi, Khosrow Shakibai, Amin Tarokh, Dariush Mehrjui

Sara is the perfect young housewife. However, when husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who gets the funds. For the next three years Sara labours secretly to pay the shady loan and save Hessam's pride... until the truth is revealed and, with it, the reality of her marriage.
The Actor
The Actor (1993)
, 1h26
Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about television
Actors Akbar Abdi, Azita Hajian, Fatemah Motamed-Aria, Mahaya Petrosian, Hamideh kheirabadi, Hossein Panahi

An Iranian actor named Akbar is trying to become a serious actor instead of the clown everyone considers him to be. However financial problems force him to abandon his dream of being an artistic actor. He also has to deal with his family problems and his wife's inability to become pregnant.
In the Alleys of Love
In the Alleys of Love (1991)
, 1h23
Directed by Khosrow Sinai
Origin Iran
Genres Drama

Close-Up
Close-Up (1990)
, 1h34
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Documentary, Crime
Themes L'usurpation d'identité, Escroquerie
Actors Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abbas Kiarostami, Abolfazl Ahankhah

Hossain Sabzian is a cinephile, and in particular a big fan of popular Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. One day, Sabzian is riding a bus with a copy of the novel The Cyclist; Mrs. Ahankhah sits next to him, revealing she is a fan of the novel's film adaptation. Sabzian tells her that he himself is Makhmalbaf, the maker. She is then surprised that a famous director would ride public transportation; Sabzian explains in response (posing as Makhmalbaf) that he finds his film subjects this way, telling her that art must spring from life. Posing as Makhmalbaf from this point on, Sabzian visits the Ahankhah family several times over the next two weeks. He flatters them by saying he wants to use not only their house in his next film, but also their sons as actors in it. He even obtains a substantial amount of money from them (ostensibly to prepare for the film). Mr. Ahankhah has his suspicions, however, especially when a magazine photo shows a younger Makhmalbaf with darker hair than that of Sabzian. He invites a journalist (Hossain Farazmand) over, who confirms Sabzian is indeed an impostor. The police come to arrest Sabzian, while Farazmand takes several pictures for his upcoming article: "Bogus Makhmalbaf Arrested." Kiarostami intersperses these scenes throughout the film, in which the events described above do not progress chronologically; they are re-enactments.
Homework
Homework (1989)
, 1h26
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
Origin Iran
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about education
Actors Abbas Kiarostami

The films consists almost exclusively of interviews with a number of pupils and two fathers of pupils at Shahid Masumi school who are asked to give their opinion on the traditional teaching practice of assigning homework. Issues such as some parents' illiteracy and their inability to help their children with the homework are raised. The children don't always succeed in hiding the more embarrassing aspects of their family life (corporal punishment, poverty, etc.).
The Runner
The Runner (1984)
, 2h
Directed by Amir Naderi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama

Amiro est un jeune orphelin qui grandit dans la ville pétrolière iranienne d'Abadan. Pour survivre, il travaille, et multiplie les petits métiers. Avec d'autres enfants des rues, il court, après des trains, dans la ville. Lui aime aussi appeler au loin les bateaux, en les suppliant de le prendre à bord, et les avions qui s'envolent. Amiro se rend compte que pour parvenir à exaucer ses rêves, il faut qu'il aille à l'école.
Frosty Roads
Frosty Roads (1985)
, 1h33
Origin Iran
Actors Ali Nassirian

Moosavi, a country schoolteacher, must undertake an arduous journey to fetch medicine for his village's sick. Accompanied by his student and a villager, he travels through a blizzard and is pursued by a pack of hungry wolves.
Fellow Citizen
Fellow Citizen (1983)
, 52minutes
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Documentary

Pris dans le flux des embouteillages invraisemblables de Téhéran, un agent de la circulation tente tant bien que mal de faire respecter une interdiction de circulation.