https://mrqe.com Fri, 06 Nov 2026 13:41:00 +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/when-pomegranates-howl-m100138627/ Tue, 05 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000 https://mrqe.com/movie/when-pomegranates-howl-m100138627/ Shot on the streets of Kabul, Granaz Moussavis (My Tehran For Sale) outstanding new feature is in the tradition of the great child-centred works of the 1980s when filmmakers such as Kiarostami, Panahi and Amir Naderi (to whom this film is dedicated) were putting Iranian cinema in the forefront of world production. 9-year-old Hewad is an irrepressible, street-smart kid who is energetically working every angle, hustling everything from pomegranate juice to amulets to protection from the evil eye. His real ambition is to be a movie star, and this comes a step closer when he meets an Australian photographer. But in a city where every family has a member who has been martyred, the streets are as perilous as they are vivid. Australias recent involvement with Afghanistan has been mixed, to say the best. The deeply-felt humanism of this film might just be our most effective contribution to that troubled country.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/my-tehran-for-sale-m100087051/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000 https://mrqe.com/movie/my-tehran-for-sale-m100087051/ Marzieh is a young female actress living in Tehran. The authorities ban her theatre work and, like all young people in Iran, she is forced to lead a secret life in order to express herself artistically. At an underground rave, she meets Iranian born Saman, now an Australian citizen, who offers her a way out of her country and the possibility of living without fear.

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