Iranian Cinema
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Learn Persian (Farsi) with Movies & TV Shows
Why Immersion Is Important Professional language learners and teachers consistently recommend a strategy: surround yourself with the language. Don’t wait for classes to pick up the pace – make it a habit. Think about it – you’re already consuming content all the time! Scrolling through social media, watching your favorite shows, or even listening to music – these are all fantastic ways to get exposed to the language. The key is to make language learning a daily practice. It doesn’t have to be a massive commitment – it’s about weaving it into your routine. It’s not about intense study; it’s about consistent exposure. Let’s face it: our brains are wired…
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Iranian Cinema: An Overview of Fajr Film Festival
Fajr Film Festival may not be a well-known film festival in the world, but it is definitely a significant event inside Iran. Interestingly, not only people from cinema industry, but ordinary people as well (mostly younger generation) try to attend as many film screenings as possible. Read up to the end to find out why. As in Iranian cinemas you can see only Iranian movies (well, with rare exception), and even Iranian TV channels show a very small percent of foreign movies, Iranian cinema industry has to fulfill these needs and produce a huge number of films, animated films and documentaries. I`ve come up with interesting statistics that will help you imagine the scale of…
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Top Iranian Movies: The Salesman Film Review
Photo: imdb.com Writing a film review is completely new to me. However, my deep appreciation of Iranian cinema and its growing popularity in other countries have motivated me to give it a try. I`ve decided to start with one of the most recent top Iranian movies – The Salesman. The latest film of world-famous, award-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi called The Salesman was a sensation at Cannes Film Festival last year winning two awards (Best Screenplay and Best Actor). The Salesman managed to win several other awards and is now running for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. It is Farhadi`s seventh feature film which tells the…
