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Following its world premiere in the Orizzonti section of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, Mohsen Gharaei‘s Falling House (Moragheb) has drawn strong critical attention. In his review for Next Best Picture, critic Jack Walters calls the Iranian drama “a harrowing, chilling depiction” of a family under pressure, driven by “brilliant performances and bold, ambitious…

Paris- and Berlin-based international sales company Salaud Morisset has acquired worldwide sales rights to A Bit of Light, the latest feature from Iranian filmmaker Ali Asgari. The announcement comes ahead of the film’s world premiere in the Main Competition of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival. Deadline reported that Salaud Morisset will represent the film internationally, continuing…

The quotidian mechanics of social repression are crisply evoked in Terrestrial Verses, the first directorial collaboration between rising Iranian talents Alireza Khatami and Ali Asgari. Premiering in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, this is a compendium of nine steely little vignettes bookended by more cinematic prologue and epilogue segments. Running at a brisk 77 minutes, the film…

TERRESTRIAL VERSES, A POWERFUL IRANIAN DRAMA WITH A NEW FORM AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL – OUR OPINION A fiction on the verge of a documentary, in the form of ten segments, each telling an aspect of daily life in Tehran, this is what awaits the spectators of Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami’s mysterious and troubling “Terrestrial Verses”. This Iranian…

Terrestrial Verses, directed by Alireza Khatami and Ali Asgari, is the sole Iranian film premiering in the Official Selection of Un Certain Regard in Cannes Film Festival 2023. The movie marks the first collaboration between these two critically acclaimed directors. Khatami previously wrote and directed “Oblivion Verses” which won best screenplay and the Fipresci prizes…

‘Terrestrial Verses’ Review: Iranian Drama Employs Bracing Inventiveness to Question Authority By Sheri Linden A daunting task faces the protagonists in Terrestrial Verses (Ayeh haye zamini): Each of them is trying to reason with a government bureaucrat or other self-important authority figure. They’re all residents of Tehran, and there’s something specific to Iran in the oppressive regulations and…