Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025
Exiled Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi’s moving record of her long-distance phone conversations with photojournalist Fatma Hassona in Gaza are theContinue Reading
Tag: Iran
Mortician: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025
A very quiet piece focussing on two Iranian exiles living in snowy Canada, which has a sting in its tail.Continue Reading
My Favourite Cake – Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024
A brave and touching film made by two Iranian filmmakers who were subsequently denied permission to attend the film’s WorldContinue Reading
Celluloid Underground – London Film Featival 2023
In competition at the London Film Festival in the Documentary category, the London-based, Iranian-born filmmaker Ehsan Khoshbakht explores and explainsContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Utopia’s Holy Spider (Collector’s Edition)
The dark, angry, and haunting Holy Spider is one of the best Films released in recent memory. New to Blu-Ray from Utopia. TheContinue Reading
Subtraction – London Film Festival 2022
Take a slice of Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy, a good pinch of Asghar Farhadi and the lightest sprinkling of Wong Kar-Wai’s In theContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Deaf Crocodile’s The Time Bending Mysteries of Shahram Mokri (Collector’s Edition)
The Geniuses at Deaf Crocodile have done it again – a box set for a Filmmaker that deserves reverence andContinue Reading
Film Review: Hit the Road (2022)
Winner of the Best Film prize at last year’s London Film Festival, Iranian writer/director Panah Panahi’s first feature Hit the Road isContinue Reading
Film Review: Gholam
Marie enters the quiet world of an Iranian cab driver in Gholam and finds it an eye opener PhotographerContinue Reading