NH21: no one builds brick houses anymore
In his Venice-award-winning “The Wasteland”, Ahmad Bahrami updates the image of Iran we are accustomed to at Western festivals.
In his Venice-award-winning “The Wasteland”, Ahmad Bahrami updates the image of Iran we are accustomed to at Western festivals.
Rasoulof tries to convince the viewers of one’s causative agency, the sense of making morally difficult decisions, and the need to fight despotism…
Bahman Kiarostami, son of the prominent Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, who died a few years ago, fulfills the principles of cinema-as-eye in his “Exodus”. Here he grabs the camera and simply – observes people. From this unusually simple and natural, as it seems, act of observation results very much.