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Then one day at the airport Ghafoor encounters a strange woman Shirin, who has traveled from Europe to Iran looking for his brother, Khosrow, a missing soldier at war. Although all the evidence shows that his son is dead and everyone believes so, he is still waiting for his beloved son, Yousef (Joseph).

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Ghafoor is a Taxi Driver whose son was allegedly martyred during the war but he wouldn’t believe it. The Scent of Joseph’s Shirt (Booye Pirahane Yousef) What is more interesting is that all the actors were northern and they were all fluent in speaking “Gilaki”.

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It is worth mentioning that Bashu was the first Iranian movie to use the northern language of Iran, Gilaki. The director criticizes ethnocentric Persian nationalism while marking the tense relationship between nationalism and ethnicity.

Bahram Beizai uses some contrasts such as North and South, black and white, and dialectical differences. Some of the best actors of the time act in this movie such as Susan Taslimi, who is acting and directing in Sweden nowadays. This 1989 movie is made by the great Iranian director, Bahram Beizai. He finds his way into a family and their good-hearted mother who is called “Nai” in the movie. The destination of the truck is a small village in the north of Iran and this is when everything begins. Consequently, he runs away for his life and hides in the back of a truck. Bashu is the name of a southern boy who loses his family and his house. The movie takes place during the war of Iran-Iraq when the southern part of Iran became a battlefield and everything was turning into ashes. According to the credits, It was the film’s ability to promote social commentary in a subversive government that made it noteworthy for all times. Bashu, the Little StrangerĪ survey from 150 Iranian critics and professionals showed in the best Persian movie magazine, World of Picture, Bashu was voted as “The Best Iranian Film of All Time”. Read more below to get started with the first 11 Iranian films out of 33 that you conspicuously should consider watching. If you have a taste for deep dives into the cinematic and artistic history of one of the Middle East’s most vibrantly creative atmospheres, you will enjoy this three-part journey. Or the critically acclaimed “Children of Heaven” by Majid Majidi. Some of the names might be familiar, like internationally-recognized Asghar Farhadi, with his 2011 film “A Separation”, earning the Best Foreign Film award at 83rd Academy Awards ceremony. You might immensely know Iran, but how well are you familiar with Iran’s epic film industry? We have curated for you, a list of some of the best, if not literally the best, feature films that were introduced to the whole world within the last 50 years. Turtles Can Fly (Bahman Gobadi, 2004) 15. The Day I Became a Woman (Marzieh Meshkini, 2000) 13. The Color of Paradise (Majid Majidi, 1999) 12. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997) 10. A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996) 9. Still Life (Sohrab Shahid-Saless, 1974) 5. The Brick and The Mirror (Ebrahim Golestan, 1965) 3. The House is Black (Forough Farrokhzad, 1963) 2.

This is a list of the 15 essential Iranian films of all time. It remains a true testament to the resilience and industrious nature of the Iranian people and serves as a veracious voice through which Iran can tells its varied and compelling stories. As a result Iranian national cinema has become an engaging, chaotic, soulful and poignant cinema.

Since then, cinema has served as an ambassador for Iran, the heart and soul of a country marred by years of instability. Starting with the opening of the first film school in 1925, an Iranian national cinema quickly began to develop. However, it would be another 25 years before Iran would develop its own national cinema, a cinema of morality, humanity, abandon and integrity. Film was less than ten years old at the time and many Iranians flocked to cinemas to watch these primitive masterpieces. The history of film as an art form in Iran dates back to the pioneering days of cinema when the first movie theatre opened in Tehran in 1904. Iranian Cinema is a rich and diverse cinema that has been in existence since the 1930s amidst oppressive regimes, censorship and even in the face of exile.

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