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Zīr-i pūst-i shahr

Unveiling Rouhangiz Saminejad: Iran’s Pioneering Actress forgotten in History

Ūn shab kih bārūn ūmad

Tracing the Tooba Character in Rakhshan Banietemad’s Cinema

Internet Cinema: A Cinema of Embodied Protest

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‛Abbās Kīyārustamī

Rakhshān Banī I‛temād

Aṣghar Farhādī

Bahrām Bayẓāyī

Tahmīnah Mīlānī

Ibrāhīm Gulistān

Dāryūsh Mihrjūyī

Farrukh Ghaffārī

Bahman Farmānārā

Pūrān Dirakhshandah

Ja‛far Panāhī

Samuel Khāchīkīyān

Suhrāb Shahīd Sālis

Sīrūs Alvand

‛Alī Ḥātamī

Muḥsin Makhmalbāf

Marẓīyyah Burūmand

Mas‛ūd Kīmīyāyī

Furūzān Bihrūz

Farīmāh Farjāmī

Sūsan Taslīmī

Shuhrah Āghdāshlū

Gulshīftah Farāhānī

Tarānah ‛Alīdūstī

Hidyah Tihrānī

Nīkū Khiradmand

Nīkī Karīmī

Humā Rūstā

Shahlā Rīyāḥī

Nūrī Kasrāyī

Ḥamīdah Khayrābādī

Irene Zāzīyān

Vīshkā Āsāyish

Iranian Actresses

List of Iranian Actresses

Iranian Actors

List of Iranian Actors

‛Izzat’allāh Intiẓāmī

Bihrūz Vusūqī

Fardīn

Paymān Ma‛ādī

Pārsā Pīrūzfar

‛Alī Nasīrīyān

Shahāb Ḥusaynī

Sa‛īd Pūrsamīmī

Jamshīd Mashāyakhī

Ḥusayn Panāhī

Dāryūsh Arjmand

Riẓā Kīyānīyān

Khusraw Shakībāyī

Muḥammad–‛Alī Kishāvarz

Navīd Muḥammad’zādah

Abulfazl Pūrārāb

Jamshīd Hāshimpūr

Through Time and Space:
Tracing the Tooba Character in Rakhshan Banietemad’s Cinema

Drawn out by Rakhshan Banietemad in 1985, the role of Tooba, the filmmaker’s most iconic character, was always reserved for Golab Adineh to perform in Under the Skin of the City (2001).

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