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Feature Films Middle East
This guide is a browsing aid to selected titles in the video/DVD collections at Rutgers Libraries. The most up-to-date,
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- The apple 1998
- In a poor area of Tehran, some people inform the local welfare authorities that one of their neighbours is keeping his twin 11-year-old girls, Zahra and Masume locked up in his house and they have been living virtually as prisoners of their poor father and blind mother.
- 1 videocassette (82 min.)
- MEDIA 2-6492
- Banu-yi Urdibihisht The May lady 2003?
- A successful documentary filmmaker lives with her teenage son. Her family life is beset with problems, which become more complicated when she meets a man. At the same time, she is making a film on exemplary mothers. Finishing the film would seem to provide answers for her personal life.
- 1 videodisc (86 min.)
- MEDIA 10-586
- Baran 2002
- Following up on his masterfully told art house successes, The Children of Heaven and The Color of Paradise, Majid Majidi directs this quietly affecting tale about illegal Afghan immigrants living and working in Iran.
- 1 videodisc :
- MEDIA 10-144
- Baysikilran The cyclist 1996
- Nazim, formerly a cyclist, but now a lowly Afghan guest worker in Iran, in order to obtain money to pay for medical care for his desperately ill wife, must overcome many obstacles in his attempt to ride a bicycle continuously for seven days and nights.
- 1 videocassette (73 min.) :
- MEDIA 2-3349
- Journey of hope Reise der Hoffnung = Umud'a yolculuk 1991
- Fact based story of a poor Kurdish family who leave Turkey and struggle to reach their promised land, Switzerland, and are forced to cross the border illegally on foot through the Alps, with tragic consequences.
- 1 videocassette (111 min.) :
- MEDIA 2-5557
- Mariage tardif Late marriage 2002
- 1 videodisc (100 min.) :
- MEDIA 10-168
- Le mur The wall 1987
- "A piercing allegory of Turkish life. Amid the brutality visited upon the boys held in the Ankara prison ... Güney arrives at a political message of revolution as an act of hope"--Case.
- 1 videocassette (117 min.) :
- MEDIA 2-5546
- Osama 2004
- Chronicles the true story of a young girl in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy to save her family from starvation. The first feature film made in Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era.
- 1 videodisc (83 min.)
- DANA 224
- Uzak Distant 2005
- When a successful photographer's wife leaves him, he falls into an existential crisis. His cousin from a small village comes to live with him to get a better job. The two are total opposites and have a hard time adjusting to each other's habits.
- 1 videocassette (105 min.)
- MEDIA 2-7406
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