Like the Trailer? Watch the full-length film on AsiaPacificFilms.com Alone in Tehran – Behnaz Jafari is a 24-year-old girl who has studied dramatic literature and plays parts in movies and TV programs. At 5 her father abandoned the family, and a few years ago she lost her mother. Now she lives by herself in Tehran. [...]
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Like the Trailer? Watch this full-length film on Asia Pacific Films The Ladies Room – Filmed in a woman’s restroom located in a public park in Iran’s metropolitan center of Tehran, this documentary explodes Western stereotyping of women in Iran. The elder who runs the washroom offers a shoulder to cry on or tough love [...]
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Like the Trailer? Watch this full-length film on Asia Pacific Films 3 Women- Iranian filmmaker Manijeh Hekmat’s second feature film and focuses on the lives of three generations of women—a grandmother, mother, and daughter—all of whom struggle to come to grips with their past and their identity. Manoo—a textile specialist who works tirelessly to protect [...]
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Like the Trailer? Watch this full-length film on Asia Pacific Films Lady of the Roses – ‘Lady of the Roses’ is the name given to the late Shahindokht Sanati, a lady who went to the Lalehzaar region of Kerman before the Islamic revolution. She replaced poppies with roses and opium with rosewater, and took this [...]
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Like the Trailer? Watch this full-length film on Asia Pacific Films Pari – After reading a book written by a 12th century ascetic, Pari, a student of literature and theater at one of Tehran’s universities, becomes obsessed with plumbing the depths of the spiritual and mystical dimension. Pari’s obsession becomes so intense that she begins [...]
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Like the Trailer? Watch this full-length film on Asia Pacific Films Bemani – Recalling the searing film The Circle this courageous film from Dariush Mehrjui examines the tragedy of Iranian women struggling to lead normal lives in an ultraconservative society. Powerful and gripping, Bemani expertly blurs the line between fiction and documentary in its depiction [...]
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Like the Trailer? Watch this full-length film on Asia Pacific Films Sara – Mehrjui is one of three Iranian directors who spearheaded Iranian cinema. This New Wave cinema icon is an intellectual director whose films are often inspired by literature. Sara, one of several female-character films of the nineties, offers an Iranian version of Henrik [...]
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Like the Trailer? Watch this full-length film on Asia Pacific Films The Lady – When Miriam, the wife of a wealthy businessman, discovers her husband has been having an affair and wants to divorce her, she is devastated. When she meets a middle-aged couple who have fallen on hard times, she takes them in as [...]
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