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Zar Amir Ebrahimi

In the Land of Arto

‘In the Land of Arto’ Review: A Sensitive Portrait of a Woman Confronting a Nation in Pain

by Jake Cole
August 13, 2025

The film is a ghostly travelogue through a land ravaged by war and natural disaster.

Tatami

‘Tatami’ Review: A Visually Striking but Politically Tepid Iranian-Israeli Sports Drama

by Anzhe Zhang
June 8, 2025

The film limply gestures at ideas around women’s rights and athlete boycotts.

Holy Spider

‘Holy Spider’ Review: Ali Abbasi’s Arresting Mix of Social Realism and Exploitation

by Mark Hanson
September 9, 2022

The film compellingly positions misogyny as an unending inherited nightmare.

Tehran Taboo

Review: Tehran Taboo

by Diego Semerene
February 14, 2018

The film is full of astute, and poetically staged, critiques of the parallel worlds resulting from Iran’s police state.

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