Movies: Roohangiz Sami-Nejad

Before the Islamic Revolution in Iran, women's lives were strongly determined by two contradictory factors: the traditional patriarchy and the shah's modernisation policies. This film-excerpt collage starts in 1932 – the year the first Iranian film w...

A Princess is forbidden to see her childhood sweetheart and forced to marry an emperor....

Golnar is a young tea house waitress who was kidnapped as a child and taken to Lorestan with a clan of bandits living among the Lors. The leader of the thieves, Gholi Khan, is beginning to look at her with interest now she is a grown woman. Little di...

Iranian Cinema from Constitutionalism to Sepanta is a documentary film directed and written by Mohammad Tahaminejad, a contemporary Iranian historian, critic and documentary filmmaker. This film tells the story of the arrival of "film" in Iran and th...