Iranian cinema Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/iranian-cinema/ What to Watch Fri, 17 Oct 2025 03:34:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Iranian cinema Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/iranian-cinema/ 32 32 IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/it-was-just-an-accident/ Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:57:22 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=54248

(The Middleburg Film Festival runs October 16-19 in Middleburg, Virginia, and lead critic Chris Reed is on the ground doing coverage for us. Check out his It Was Just an Accident movie review! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd […]

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]]> IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT Trailer: Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or Winner is a Gripping Tale of Revenge https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/it-was-just-an-accident-jafar-panahi/ Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:51:11 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=53803

After over a decade of being persecuted and imprisoned by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi made his triumphant in-person return to the Cannes Film Festival this year, where he presented what may be his most courageous film yet. It Was […]

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]]> CANNES 2025 AWARD WINNERS: Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just An Accident’ Wins the Palme d’Or (Full List) https://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/cannes-2025-award-winners/ Sat, 24 May 2025 19:49:47 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=53224 Jafar Panahi's IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

NEON has done it again. After 10 days of highly buzzed new cinema and hot acquisitions, the 78th Cannes Film Festival concluded with the Palme d’Or being awarded to Jafar Panahi’s revenge thriller, It Was Just An Accident. After acquiring […]

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]]> THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG Trailer: Mohammad Rasoulof’s Urgent Political Thriller Arrives in November https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/seed-of-the-sacred-fig/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 21:34:18 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=51792 Mohammad Rasoulof's THE SEED OF THE SACREG FIG

When it premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof’s secretly-shot thriller The Seed of the Sacred Fig made headlines. Marking his first project to debut following his exile from his native Iran, after being sentenced to 8 […]

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]]> THE STRANGER AND THE FOG 4K Restoration Trailer: Hidden Gem of the Iranian New Wave is Unearthed https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/the-stranger-and-the-fog-4k-restoration-trailer-hidden-gem-of-the-iranian-new-wave-is-unearthed/ Mon, 19 Aug 2024 20:33:20 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=51439 THE STRANGER AND THE FOG

A hidden gem of Iranian cinema has been unearthed and restored in 4K. Bahram Beyzaie’s mythical 1974 sophomore film The Stranger and the Fog was banned in Iran for decades following the Revolution there, but it’s finally being brought back […]

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]]> NO BEARS Trailer: Jafar Panahi’s Latest Addresses Filmmaking & Oppression https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/no-bears/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 18:03:17 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=38615

Back in July, legendary Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested for protesting the arrest and imprisonment of his fellow filmmakers and was later sentenced to six years in prison. A few months after his arrest, his newest film No Bears […]

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]]> A Conversation With Hossein Keshavarz and Maryam Azadi (DOG SWEAT) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-hossein-keshavarz-dog-sweat/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-hossein-keshavarz-dog-sweat/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:30:13 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=13554 In the debased language of much mainstream movie commentary, a filmmaker is described as “brave” for casting a Hollywood star against type, and actors are commended for “taking risks” if they defer their usual eight-figure salary for back-end profit participation. […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-hossein-keshavarz-dog-sweat/feed/ 4 MOMENT OF INNOCENCE, A https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/a-moment-of-innocence-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/a-moment-of-innocence-film-review/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:41:59 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=316

(Unfortunately, DVD distribution of A Moment of Innocence has been discontinued, as a result of New Yorker Films’s recent closing. But copies of it can still be found for sale online.) For admirers of the great Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, […]

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