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National Iranian Radio and Television (NIRT)

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Tranquility in the Presence of Others poster
Movie

A colonel, who has two daughters working as nurses in Tehran, retires to a small city. The man marries a teacher from the provinces and goes with her to Tehran. However, he finds that his daughters have changed. The elder daughter eventually commits suicide and the younger daughter goes through an ill-fated marriage. The father, observing the problems of his children, goes insane and is confined to an asylum. For its political and social content, the film was banned by the government for several years.

Tranquility in the Presence of Others

Dec 1972

The Spring poster
Movie

A man who has fallen in love with a young woman discovers that she is the wife of his friend. When he realizes the woman's affection for a young libertine with whom she is secretly meeting in an abandoned house, he commits suicide. When the local women, out of jealousy, expose her, she also ends her life. Her husband buries her body in the abandoned bathhouse. The young libertine, driven to madness, wanders into the desert.

The Spring

Feb 1973

Bita poster
Movie

Hajir Darioush's first and last commercially successful film, "Bita" is about a young woman's struggle to come to terms with social barriers facing her, starring Googoosh.

Bita

Aug 1972

Knucklebones poster
Movie

Borzoo is gambling and his wife is not happy with that. Finally he decides not to gamble anymore and takes an oath on himself not to do. But his friend Ali is in desperate need for money for his sister's marriage. Borzoo breaks his oath to gamble once more and brings money for his friend. But this time terrible consequences are waiting for him and other gamblers.

Knucklebones

May 1971

The Garden of Stones poster
Movie

Secrets and mysteries lose power when they are spread too widely. This is what the villagers discover when they invade an old man's vision-inspired shrine to the namelessly holy.

The Garden of Stones

Apr 1976

Spring Behind the Window poster
Movie

When Pari confronts Parvin to stop her affair with her husband, their encounter unfolds in a way neither of the two women had anticipated.

Spring Behind the Window

Jul 1973

Women and Professions poster
Movie

A short documentary about women and their professions in Iran's 60s society.

Women and Professions

May 1967

Iran's Son is Unaware of His Mother poster
Movie

A young playwright and director wants to write and perform a historical drama about faith in the Ashkani period of Iran. There is an incongruity between the man's personal life, and his quest to pursue and present history. The woman who lives with him believes he should not neglect their relationship when embarking on such a quest. The people who work with the playwright believe the play ought to be made popular to satisfy the public. Finally, this matter makes the playwright perform the play all by himself.

Iran's Son is Unaware of His Mother

Jul 1976

How Frightening Is The Darkness Of The Soul! poster
Movie

In this experimental Iranian film, a being who has turned its back on the familiar and ordinary daily life embarks on a quest to find an escape to the beyond. It eventually reaches those who have already attained liberation and joins them. Leaving behind the ruins of its past days, it becomes part of another group of beings from a different world.

How Frightening Is The Darkness Of The Soul!

Jan 1972

Taxi Meter poster
Movie

A short documentary about Tehran's taxi drivers and their problem with the new taxi meters.

Taxi Meter

Dec 1967

Thursday-bazaar of Minaab poster
Movie

Short documentary about the Thursday-bazaar of Minaab, a small city in South of Iran

Thursday-bazaar of Minaab

Dec 1968

From Isfahan to Abarkooh poster
Movie

A report on historical buildings, legends, and traditions along the route from Isfahan to Shiraz. Including Mahyar, Shahreza, Ziaratgah, AminAbad, and IzadKhast.

From Isfahan to Abarkooh

Jan 1970

Images, rythmes et percussions poster
Movie

In 1969, 10 years before the Iranian revolution, Iran and the ancient city of Persepolis hosted an arts festival that revealed all the contrasts and diversity of ancient Persia. Alternating sequences of performances and images filmed in the country show the cultural richness of Iran, where modernity and tradition exist side by side.

Images, rythmes et percussions

Jan 1969

MirNasir and the Ill-Fated Genie poster
Movie

MirNasir, who thinks that life has finally shown him a bright side by finding a genie, realizes that the genie has been imprisoned inside the glass for too long.

MirNasir and the Ill-Fated Genie

Jan 1974

The Blind Owl poster
Movie

Film based on the famous Iranian novella by Sadegh Hedayat, considered one of the great works of modern Persian prose. A man who is perhaps losing his mind spits his murderous fantasies and confessions at a shadow on the wall of his room that has the shape of an owl.

The Blind Owl

Jun 1975

Naankhor-haye bisavadi poster
Movie

A documentary about people who make their living by writing letters for illiterate people

Naankhor-haye bisavadi

Dec 1970

How Starry Was the Night poster
Movie

The film follows a blind young man in Lorestan who spends his summer alone in his village while everyone else has moved under the mountain away from the heat. He waits for cars next to the road in hopes that they will give him money. While trying to find a car that passed him one day he finds a water stream by accident and the calmness of its environment makes him seek refuge there every day. But the seasons change and after the first rain, the small stream turns into a big body of water and the young man is left with nowhere to bring him happiness every day.

How Starry Was the Night

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The Eye That Hears poster
Movie

A night with Bahman Mohasses famous Iranian Painter

The Eye That Hears

Oct 1967