Sohrab Shahid Saless: An Iranian Filmmaker in Berlin
Sohrab Shahid Saless’ Far From Home (In der Fremde, 1975) opens with a statement declaring that this is not a film about Gastarbeiter (guest workers), but rather about the word…
Tending the Wounds of the Nation: Gender in Contemporary Iranian War Cinema
Black screen: indistinct voices: the sound of laboured breathing. Cut to the image of a young man, Ismael (Bahram Radan), his body writhing uncontrollably, overtaken by a sudden violent seizure.…