Shirin Neshat Movies

The Colony, which shares the screen and the character of Shirin Neshat's Land of Dreams, is about an immense research institute devoted to recording...

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Cast: Sheila Vand

Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shabnam Toloui

Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shabnam Toloui

Simin is an Iranian woman on a journey to discover what it means to be a free American. She works for the Census Bureau which, in an effort to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sheila Vand

On one wall, a singer delivers a passionate love song to a group of men. He is faced away from his audience, secure that his performance will be...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shoja Azari

Produced in collaboration with the American musical composer Philip Glass, Neshat’s narrative follows a procession of men as they carry a body...

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In Possessed, a seemingly mad woman in an Islamic village evokes questions of social acceptability.

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Cast: Shohreh Aghdashloo

The story of a young woman who has been working as a prostitute since childhood. The film traces her slow disintegration into psychic delirium....

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Cast: Orsolya Tóth

The installation features two black-and-white projections. One depicts a group of men dressed in Western suits and the other captures a group of...

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Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bernardo Bertolucci

ILLUSIONS and MIRRORS is about the futile attempt of chasing a shadow that wanders through the dunes of an empty beach. When it finally comes to an...

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Cast: Tarek Aylouch

Two-channel video installation by Shirin Neshat

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In a highly fictionalized and stylized way, Neshat’s new film addresses the sexual exploitation of female political prisoners by the Islamic...

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A film within a film, "Looking for Oum Kulthum" is the plight of an Iranian woman artist/filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Neda Rahmanian

Two screens face each other in a dark room, only a bench off to the side interrupting the space between them. Settling into this interstitial expanse...

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Cast: Shirin Neshat

Artist Shirin Neshat explains the film: "I was interested in how female singers are universally treated as objects of desire. At first, Cate looks...

Genre: Music

Cast: Cate Blanchett

Her poetic two-channel video installation Tooba is based on the Koran, in which Tooba, the sacred tree of paradise, offers shelter and sustenance to...

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A film within a film, "Looking for Oum Kulthum" is the plight of an Iranian woman artist/filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Neda Rahmanian

Roja is drawn from Neshat’s own recurring dreams, memories and desires. The work traces a young woman’s disquieting attempts to connect...

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This film is a rumination on cultural identity told through the viewpoint of a female photographer from Iran, traveling across the western US.

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Cast: Sheila Vand

In Sarah, 2016, it is a forest environment that becomes a site of haunting; mysterious and unknowable. The protagonist Sarah is played by Sara...

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Cast: Sara Issakharian

Genre: Music

Cast: Anna Netrebko