Five Iranian Voices on Reza Mirkarimi’s Today

COLLECTED AND INTRODUCED BY AMIR GANJAVIE. Reza Mirkarimi’s Today (Emrooz, 2014) was selected to represent Iran at the 2015 Oscars despite being unpopular with Iranian critics from the beginning and despite expectations that it would be a great box office failure. According to the website of Hamshari, a leading Iranian […]

Introduction: Contemporary Independent Iranian Cinema

By Parviz Jahed and Amir Ganjavie. [Editor’s note: The upcoming issue of Film International (issue 69, vol. 12, no. 3/2014) is dedicated to “Contemporary Independent Iranian Cinema.” This is a slightly abbreviated version of the introduction to this issue, written by the issue’s guest editors Parviz Jahed and Amir Ganjavie. […]

Call for Contributions: Contemporary Alternative American Cinema

As part of a broader attempt to understand the world cinema, the H & S Media plans the publication of a book which aims to put in perspective those contemporary American films which offer an alternative to the mainstream Hollywood cinema. These alternative films manifest original personal visions and unique social […]

Call for Contributions: Special issue of Film International on Iranian Independent Cinema

Guest editor: Parviz Jahed (parviz.jahed@cine-eye.com) Associate editor Amir Ganjavie (ganjavie@yorku.ca) Articles are invited for publication in an edited volume of Film International on the topic of Iranian independent cinema. Independent Iranian cinema consists of the low budget Iranian films with limited affiliation to the government and its financial resources that […]

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Volume 20 Issue 4 (2022) Editorial Issue 102 By Daniel Lindvall Women Producers, Writers, Illustrators and Directors in Netflix’s BoJack Horseman By Jenny Paola Ortega Castillo The Magdalene Sisters (2002) and Little Black Spiders (2012) By Katrijn Bekers ‘We’re Just Telling Our Stories as People’: Production choices and Minari’s take on the […]