This month on Docunight On-Demand
We are in the process of adding many documentaries to our On-Demand platform, from new documentaries to old classics. This month we are happy to announce adding 5 documentaries by Kamran Shirdel to our classics section. Kamran Shirdel was born in 1939 and studied first architecture and then film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. After graduating in 1964, Shirdel returned
#67: Gracefully
Gracefully tells the story of a drag queen who had been performing on stage for decades before the revolution and after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he has been banned from any kind of performance. He lives on a farm and spends most of his time farming and he sometimes dances for elderly people at nurseries.
#66: Formerly Youth Square
* World Online Premiere *- Now available everywhere in the worldOnline Screening from May 20 - May 27, 2020Q&A with the director Mina Akbari on Sunday, May 24, at 12pm Pacific Time / 3pm Eastern Time / 7pm GMT / 11:30pm Tehran Time Journalist Mina Akbari’s FORMERLY YOUTH SQUARE opens with a photograph of a group of 70 journalists taken about 20 years
Docunight 2.0!
I am very excited to announce Docunight 2.0, not just version 2.0, but also two new services! During the past 6 years, one question I kept getting was “where can we watch these films”? Mostly, the answer was, unfortunately nowhere. There were many challenges, from running a continuous streaming service to a different licensing and all other limitations and challenges that come with
Docunight On-Demand Launched!
We are excited to announce the launch of our new service, Docunight On-Demand!
#65: Platform
A ROCKY-esque tale of determination and grit, PLATFORM follows three Iranian sisters as they compete to become international champions of Wushu.
#64: Fight Feast
Fight Feast is about the vicissitudinous story of Iranian music between 1979-1989, the years just after the revolution through the end of Iran-Iraq war.
#63: The Story of Boulevard / The Mannequins of Ghale Hassan Khan
The Mannequins of Ghale Hassan Khan tells the story of the birth and life of some mannequins. They are all created in the same way but their faith is not the same
The Story of Boulevard is about one of Tehran’s important streets.
#62: Homework
Kiarostami’s second documentary feature about education, the filmmaker himself asks the questions, probing a succession of invariably cute first- and second-graders about their home situations and the schoolwork they must do there. It emerges that many parents are illiterate. Tellingly, many kids can define punishment but not encouragement.
#61: The Broker
Shot almost entirely inside the confines of their tiny office, The Broker conveys a sense of claustrophobia that mirrors many women's situations and offers a shocking, tragicomic reminder that the fiercest agents of the patriarchy aren't always men.