Sentences with phrase «iranian society»

Newsha Takavolian, a female photojournalist from Tehran, also addresses women's roles in Iranian society in her potent series of portraits, Mothers of Martyrs.

As capitalism's sway over contemporary Iranian society grows ever more pervasive, there is housing shortage, the real estate market booms, houses make way for towering new apartment buildings and shopping malls.

In If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan, Sahar contemplates gender reassignment in order to marry her best friend and girlfriend, Nasrin, in an Iranian society where homosexual relationships are forbidden.

TEHRAN — The crowds in colored dresses entering Tehran's Imam Khomeini Mosalla to visit the Tehran International Book Fair suggest a warm welcome to reading books by Iranian society.

Asghar Farhadi offers another astute look at contemporary Iranian society in this compelling relationship drama.

In a series of tautly constructed dramas that imbue the everyday struggles of married life with suspense and tragedy, filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has proven himself a remarkable observer of the social, moral, and personal dimensions that shape contemporary Iranian society.

His camera, placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio, captures a spirited slice of Iranian society while also brilliantly redefining the borders of comedy, drama and cinema.

For every interesting point about women being second class citizens in Iranian society, it's undermined by the basic logic of the plot.

The complexities of patriarchy and corruption in Iranian society form the backdrop to this and all of Farhadi's films, and while The Salesman is not quite as good as his other Oscar - winner, A Separation, it's a very strong piece of work.

For Western audiences, the film also documents — without overtly critiquing — the role of religion, and the power dynamics between men and women, in contemporary Iranian society.

Other films from Cannes making their US debut at Telluride include the Russian «Loveless,» directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, about an unhappy couple searching for their son, and winner of Cannes» Jury Prize; «A Man of Integrity,» by Mohammad Rasoulof, set in corrupt Iranian society, which won the Grand Prize of the Un Certain Regard section; «The Rider,» by Chloe Zhao, about a badly injured young South Dakotan rodeo rider, which won the top prize, the Art Cinema Award, of the Director's Fortnight; «Tesnota (Closeness),» about a Jewish family forced to try to ransom their son and his new bride, also in Un Certain Regard, by Kantemir Balagov; and Barbet Schroeder's documentary about a Buddhist monk, «Le venerable W.»

Underneath, the film is a subtle examination of class and gender in Iranian society.

The clerical regime has shown itself capable of crushing the mass protests, but it may have stifled the last attempt of Iranian society to gasp for breath.

Not exact matches

Only a few months before he met with me, Cohen was planning a trip to the edge of Iran in Azerbaijan to «engage the Iranian communities closer to the border,» as part of a Google Ideas» project on «repressive societies.»

We are just as bad as the Iranians — a society committed to its executions.

Today Freedom from Torture joined thirty - three civil society organisations to call on the UN to continue to pressure the Iranian Government to end human rights abuses including torture.

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He is a member of the council of the Iranian - American Physicists group, a body set up in 2007 to represent Iranian members of the American Physical Society.

A taut, involving drama centered around the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, About Elly confirms director Asghar Farhadi as a major talent in Iranian cinema whose ability to chronicle the middle - class malaise of his society is practically unrivaled.

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's powerful drama is a prime example of how a smallscale domestic crisis can stand as a microcosm for a much larger crisis within society.

The Online Film Critics Society gave one of its three special awards to the the pair for their act of protest against the Iranian government.

FLEMING: For at least the last thirty years, most of what we hear in western society about Iranian culture is not positive.

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Reza Javalchi, the secretary of the Society to Defend the Rights of Animals, says dog ownership, more common in the West, is considered by Iranian officials to be a sign of Western influence.

New York based Iranian artist Shirin Neshat creates video and photos that portray issues of gender and society, the individual and the group.

The limited Edition Reflections / Refractions, 26 Oct 2014, 2015 is part of a series of collages created from an Iranian newspaper, which has been printed on aluminium printing plates and produced exclusively for the Whitechapel Gallery to accompany Ansarinia's work in the exhibition: Adventures of the Black Square, Abstract Art and Society 1915 — 2015, from 15th January — 6th April 2015.

79.89.09, 7:30 p.m. April 13, Asia Society Texas Center, 1370 Southmore Blvd.: 79.89.09 looks at two key modern moments — the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and Poland's Solidarność movement in the 1980s — as bookends to the two major geopolitical narratives of the 20th and 21st century, respectively — Communism and political Islam.

Shirin Neshat (b. 1957) is an Iranian - born artist whose works often focus on the mores of Muslin societies, especially as they affect women.

The exhibition offers an unexpected insight into the artistic energy of a culture that is constantly evolving as Iranians living both in and out of the country, come of age living and working in contentious societies.

The artist's work has been included in extensive group exhibitions, including Iran Modern, Asia Society, New York (2013); Spectacular of the Vernacular, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN (2011); Word Into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East, British Museum, London (2006); Far Near Distance: Contemporary Positions of Iranian Artists, House of World Cultures, Berlin (2004); Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA (1988); Sculptur Projekte Muster» 87, Germany (1987); International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York (1984); 74th Annual American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, IL (1982); Biennial of American Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1981); 39th Venice Biennale, American Pavilion, Italy (1980); Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York (1970); and Documenta 5 (1972), 7 (1982) and 8 (1987), Kassel, Germany.

In 2013 she co-curated IranModern, the first major exhibition devoted to Iranian Modern Art for the Asia Society Museum, New York (Sept. 5, 2013 - January 5, 2015) and coedited the accompanying publication.

Today, Iranian women are more educated and active in the society, and they work alongside men outside their homes.