The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.
Meet Galan, a Russian spastic geek who`d do anything to be a real, live samurai. But that`s just an impossible dream... or is it? When his friend Natsu, who is a successor of Japanese emigrants family, gives him the gift of an ancient sword, strange events unfold, and even stranger people drop out of the sky to attack. Now Galan must overcome his ineptitude and join a bunch of beautiful women in a wacky romp through a kingdom that time forgot. Hey, what could be better?
After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.
This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni, living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max lives at Françoise, a young French woman, who hides him.
The frontwoman for an Iranian death metal band risks everything as she plots to call the cops on her own underground concert in the hopes that the raid will help her secure her asylum in another country.
In response to Marielle Franco's execution, the 2018 elections turned into the biggest political upheaval led by black women that Brazil has ever seen, with candidacies in all states. In Rio de Janeiro, Mônica Francisco, Rose Cipriano, Renata Souza, Jaqueline de Jesus, Tainá de Paula and Talíria Petrone applied for the positions of state or federal deputy. The documentary accompanied these women in their campaigns, showing that a new way of doing politics in Brazil is possible, transforming mourning into struggle.
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A group of women from Leeds share stories of poverty through eight everyday objects and the community initiatives they've launched to fight the shame that surrounds it, in a bid to start a dialogue with policymakers.
A young taxi driver who is a happy man encounters lots of different stories through his daily life. One day, he is driving a young American woman and he enters an unusual and protracted adventure which he should follow to the end. The American woman has lost the address she is going to refer and it is almost impossible to reach her relatives. The young driver believes that he should help the woman until she finds her relatives and this issue causes many problems between him and his fiancee. He also has other problems regarding the American woman and his unusual friend.
INVICTA FC 7 RETURNS TO KANSAS CITY, MO. DECEMBER 7, 2013 LIVE FROM THE AMERISTAR CASINO & HOTEL Barb Honchak vs. Leslie Smith (flyweight title fight) Carla Esparza vs. Claudia Gadelha (strawweight title fight) Lauren Murphy vs. Miriam Nakamoto (bantamweight title fight) Felice Herrig vs. Tecia Torres Joanne Calderwood vs. Katja Kankaanpaa Julia Budd vs. Charmaine Tweet Zoila Frausto Gurgel vs. Vanessa Porto Tonya Evinger vs. Kelly Kobold Nina Ansaroff vs. Munah Holland
Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins.
David Asmmann's Football Under Cover documents the hard work involved in setting up an exhibition soccer match, known as a "friendly," between a German girls squad and Iranian women's team. In addition to showing how the two groups come from very different cultures, the documentary showcases what playing the game means to the members of both teams, and displays how passionate the fans of these two squads are.
During the 2006 World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Bahrain, numerous young women are caught and rounded up for dressing as men so they could gain access to the game. Guarded by several soldiers in a holding pen, the women attempt to keep updated on the score.
Episode Two of the Queens Court is now Online and features a new first round match announcement. The Queen's Court Episode 2. THE QUEENS OF COMBAT TITLE TOURNAMENT!Sixteen competitors battle it out to become the first QoC Champion!Queens of Combat return to action on Saturday, June.
Queens of Combat 5 - Title Tournament Day 1 Mid Atlantic Sportatorium Gibsonville, NC 6/13/15 Solo Darling vs. Su Yung 1st Round Match of the Queens of Combat Title Tournament "Hardcore" Heather Owens vs. Chasity Taylor 1st Round Match of the Queens of Combat Title Tournament Santana Garrett vs. Mandy Leon 1st Round Match of the Queens of Combat Title Tournament Tessa Blanchard vs. Hania the Huntress 1st Round Match of the Queens of Combat Title Tournament Jenny Rose vs. Amanda Rodriguez 1st Round Match of the Queens of Combat Title Tournament Taeler Hendrix vs. Amy Love 1st Round Match of the Queens of Combat Title Tournament Jessicka Havok vs. Miss Diss Lexia 1st Round Match of the Queens of Combat Title Tournament LuFisto vs. Leva Bates 1st Round Match of the Queens of Combat Title Tournament.
After getting caught in a fight, Vahid needs to sell one of his kidneys to avoid a prison sentence of many years. While waiting for the liberating call from a buyer, a wish for a better life starts to grow within him.
Women’s Wrestling Revolution (WWR) returns to the NYWC Sportatorium on February 23rd with Widowmaker! They’re bringing more of the great women’s wrestling that we know and love. There’s also a few debuts set to take place at Widowmaker. Lisa Marie Varon, Allysin Kay and the rising star Leyla Hirsch all will make their WWR debuts. They will join regulars such as Skylar, Solo Darling, Willow Nightingale, Maria Manic and more.
Tehran Is the Capital of Iran (1966-79) documents life in a deprived district in the south of Tehran. The images of destitution in Tehran's poor areas is accompanied by a variety of spoken accounts: the official viewpoint on the district's living conditions, what the inhabitants have to say, and occasional extracts read out of school manuals. The key element in Shirdel's film is the counterpoint effect he creates with image and sound. His impressively powerful portrayal of social unease helps reinforce the impact of his astonishing documentary images and social themes.
Inspirational true story of Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian, who risked his life for his dream to become a dancer despite a nationwide dancing ban.
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.