https://mrqe.com Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:32:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/liran-une-revolution-cinematographique-m100037063/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/liran-une-revolution-cinematographique-m100037063/ Today Iranian cinema is one of the most highly regarded national cinemas in the world, regularly winning festival awards and critical acclaim for films which combine remarkable artistry and social relevance. Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution traces the development of this film industry, which has always been closely intertwined with the country’s tumultuous political history, from the decades-long reign of Reza Shah Pahlevi and his son, the rise of Khomeini and the birth of the Islamic Republic, the seizure by militants of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, and the devastating war with Iraq.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/no-bears-m100141560/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=72488 Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-year-of-the-everlasting-storm-m100137245/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-year-of-the-everlasting-storm-m100137245/ Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/nasrin-m100133426/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=72486 Secretly filmed in Iran for over two years, Nasrin is an immersive portrait of human rights activist and political prisoner Nasrin Sotoudeh and Irans remarkably resilient womens rights movement. Nasrin has long fought for the rights of women, children, LGBT prisoners, religious minorities, journalists and artists, and those facing the death penalty. She was arrested in 2018 for representing women who protested Irans mandatory hijab law and sentenced to 38 years in prison, plus 148 lashes. Narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Olivia Colman and featuring acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, journalist Ann Curry, exiled womens rights activist Mansoureh Shojaee, and Nasrin Sotoudeh.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/in-film-nist-m100095947/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=72478 Renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi received a 6-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press due to his open support for the opposition party in Iran’s 2009 election. In this film, which was shot secretly by Panahi’s close friend Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and smuggled into France on a USB stick concealed inside a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, Panahi documents his daily life under house arrest as he awaits a decision on his appeal.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/parde-m100105797/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=72482 A man, his dog, a young woman and a filmmaker in a house by the Caspian Sea. All three are wanted, but they are also in search of each other. Thus begins an absurd game in which reality and fiction merge.

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