Iranian Film Quotes

Do Iranians make bad movies? I need to find one.

Most immigrants agree that at some point, we become permanent foreigners, belonging neither here nor there. Many tomes have been written trying to describe this feeling of floating between worlds but never fully landing. Artists, using every known medium from words to film to Popsicle sticks, have attempted to encapsulate the struggle of trying to hang on to the solid ground of our mother culture and realizing that we are merely in a pond balancing on a lily pad with a big kid about to belly-flop right in. If and when we fall into this pond, will we be singularly American or will we hyphenate? Can we hold on to anything or does our past just end up at the bottom of the pond, waiting to be discovered by future generations?

La principale differenza tra queste ragazze e quelle della mia generazione era che noi sentivano di aver perduto qualcosa, e ci lamentavamo del vuoto che si era creato nella nostra vita quando ci avevano rubato il passato, trasformandoci in esuli nel nostro Paese. Ma se non altro avevamo un passato da paragonare al presente; avevamo ricordi e immagini di ciò che ci era stato portato via. Le mie ragazze invece parlavano sempre di baci rubati, di film che non avevano mai visto e del vento che non avevano mai sentito sulla pelle. I loro ricordi erano fatti di desideri irrealizzati, di cose che non avevano mai avuto. E questa mancanza, questo struggimento per le cose più normali, conferiva alle loro parole una luce malinconica, vicina alla poesia.

I'm going to an Iranian film tonight with Fereshteh. Her family friends approve of her having an Iranian friend." "You're Māori." "Yeah, I know, but they accept me. Fereshteh taught me some phrases and says I'm from Shiraz, which makes them all nod and say that explains it." "Is that unethical?" "I don't think so. When I lived in Germany people were always disappointed in me for not being able to speak Turkish. They thought I had forgotten my roots." "You never forget your roots.

The worldwide phenomenon that came to be known as "Beatlemania" was not merely a matter of taste in music or preference for a genre in film. It came to represent a global media discourse drawing on the rising importance, visibility, self-awareness and cultural power of youth, especially the emergence of girls' subcultures, while the conventions and values of the older generation came under pressure

Although it would be about the leper colony of Bababaghi, the film would also explore the fact that great trouble and suffering is caused when we reject certain parts of ourselves and bury our unwelcome feelings, rather than facing up to our problems and searching for a solution. The story of a community being rejected due to a lack of access to proper medical help would draw wider attention to how societies are willing to condemn anything that is different to themselves, rather than to confront their fears of the other.