#7: The Law In These Parts
In “The Law in These Parts” Ra'anan Alexandrowicz has pulled off a tour-de-force examination of the system of military administration used by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967, featuring the system’s leading creators.
#6: My Name Is Negahdar Jamali And I Make Westerns
Negahdar Jamali has been making Western films continuously for the past 35 years under hard conditions, and this film is about the struggle with his family, friends, society, and others to make what he likes the most in his life “Western Movies”.
#5: Lady of the Roses / Back Vocal (2 films)
Shahindokht Sanati replaced poppies with roses and opium with rosewater and took this so far as to transform the agricultural destiny of a whole region. / The struggles of contemporary Iranian singers and musicians working to be heard in their own country.
#4: Kahrizak, Four Views
Four directors of different ages and levels of experience, each present a view of the Kahrizak Charity Centre, introducing us to fascinating characters and rituals, and a reflection on life and death itself.
#3: Bassidji
For three years, Mehran Tamadon immersed himself into the very heart of the most extremist supporters of the Islamic Republic of Iran (the Bassidjis) to understand their ideas.
#2: Red Lines and Deadlines
With unprecedented access to Shargh at the time Iran’s leading reformist newspaper. Taghi Amirani goes behind the scenes with the paper’s young journalists as they went about their job of reporting and commenting on a wide range of social, cultural and political stories.
#1 Statues of Tehran
Statues of Tehran interrogates the function of monuments in today’s Tehran, an ideology-ridden postmodern megalopolis, afflicted with forgetfulness.