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The Song of Sparrows
Why this pick
Majidi returns to working-class life with the same patient, tactile observation and quiet moral tenderness, letting small acts of sacrifice carry the emotional weight.
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MOVIE2001 1h 30m IRN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Its luminous rural imagery and compassionate attention to a vulnerable young person echo Baran’s spiritual humanism and preference for feeling over overt melodrama.
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Why this pick
A modest everyday problem becomes deeply moving through Majidi’s unhurried storytelling, economic detail, and empathy for children navigating hardship with dignity.
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At Five in the Afternoon
Why this pick
It shares Baran’s concern for Afghan lives on the margins, balancing social reality with poetic imagery and a restrained, hopeful emotional current.
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A Time for Drunken Horses
Why this pick
This spare Kurdish drama finds immense tenderness in precarious labor and family obligation, with a wintry realism close to Baran’s harsh yet compassionate world.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
It is winter in Teheran. Lateef is 17. He works at a building construction site managed by Memar, the site foreman. Lateef's job is to serve tea and prepare food for the workers with whom he is always quarrelling. The workers come from all parts of Iran, particularly from Iranian Azerbaijan (Azeris are referred as "Turks" in the film). Some workers are Afghan refugees from war-torn Afghanistan. They have no identity cards and are employed illegally as cheap labour. When the labour inspectors show up, the Afghan workers must hide.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Christopher Maleki
Hassan