At WorkBy Narges Samadi02/03/20263 Mins Read Directed by Valérie Donzelli, At Work offers a calm, precise, and deliberately anti-melodramatic portrayal of one of the fundamental crises…
Glasgow, Kenmure Street, and the Continuity of Civil ResistanceBy Narges Samadi01/29/20264 Mins Read The documentary Everybody to Kenmure Street is not merely the record of a local protest or a brief confrontation with…
Kabul, “Afghanistan, After the Fall…By Farzaneh Matin01/07/20263 Mins Read In 2021, as the Taliban gradually seized Afghan cities one after another, they ultimately took control of Kabul and, after…
Young Mothers, A Simple, Realist FilmBy Farzaneh Matin12/20/20255 Mins Read Young Mothers, directed by the celebrated French filmmakers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, is one of the most notable works…
“Frankenstein: The Spark That Ignited Artificial Intelligence”By Farzaneh Matin12/12/20255 Mins Read At first glance, it may seem unlikely that the publication of a novel in the early nineteenth century could play…
Yen Tan and All That We LoveBy Chale Nafus12/02/202516 Mins Read Austin-based writer/director/graphic designer Yen Tan’s fifth feature film, All That We Love, begins poetically with the sound of bird songs…
The Follies, one of the best movies of our timeBy Bijan Tehrani11/21/20258 Mins Read Most film critics keep a “sacred list” of their favorite filmmakers and films — a small circle that rarely changes.…
Characters and Symbols, Sadistic NarcissismBy Kiana Hashemi11/17/202514 Mins Read The Old Bachelor, a landmark film in Iranian cinema, draws its distinctive strength from the way it uses the language…
One Battle After AnotherBy Narges Samadi10/11/20253 Mins Read Paul Anderson’s latest film makes it clear from the very first moment that it has no intention of belonging to…
Sirât, a voage between reality and metaphor,By Narges Samadi09/20/20253 Mins Read Sirât, the latest work by Oliver Laxe, presents a bifurcated narrative full of ruptures in meaning—a film that begins in…
