Jamsheed Akrami

Jamsheed Akrami is associated with: A Cinema of Discontent

Movies Made By Jamsheed Akrami (4)

A Cinema of Discontent (2013)

The international success of Iranian cinema over the past decades may have veiled the fact that Iranian filmmakers work under extremely harsh circumstances rarely seen in other national cinemas. Filmmaking in Iran is subject to tight government controls an ...

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The Lost Cinema: Iranian Political Films in the 70s (2007)

The Lost Cinema is a film essay on the Iranian New Wave, a film movement which blossomed in the 70s as a protest against a local film industry dominated by shallow, socially uninformed domestic films and excessive exhibition of Hollywood and European impor ...

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A Walk with Kiarostami (2003)

U.S.-based film professor Jamsheed Akrami talks to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami in an inpromptu video interview, which offers a frank and funny view of Kiarostami rarely seen before. ...

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Friendly Persuasion: Iranian Cinema After the 1979 Revolution (2001)

Documentary about the renaissance of filmmaking in Iran. ...

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Movies Starring Jamsheed Akrami (1)

A Walk with Kiarostami (2003)

U.S.-based film professor Jamsheed Akrami talks to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami in an inpromptu video interview, which offers a frank and funny view of Kiarostami rarely seen before. ...

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