Ali Zhekan
2021Stranger and the Fog
Bahram Beyzai
Parvaneh Massoumi, Khosrow Shojazadeh
A young man, suffering from loss of memory, drifts in on a canoe onto the shore of the Persian Gulf. He falls in love with a beautiful village woman and settles down, until strangers come from the sea and attack the village. The young man decides to return to the sea to save the village from further harassment.
Stranger and the Fog
The Mare
Ali Zhekan
Susan Taslimi, Hossein Mahjoub
Noted Iranian actress Susan Taslimi plays an impoverished single mother who agees to marry off her 13-year-old daughter to a middle-aged man in return for a mare, which will help her earn an income and provide for her younger children. Director Ali Zhekan paints a stark picture of poverty and patriarchy in rural Iran (the mother stores her rice in a container hidden in a tree; her brother, who brokered the wedding, mercilessly beats the recalcitrant child), but this 1986 film is distinguished mostly by Taslimi's increasingly fiery performance as the mother decides to defend her daughter's freedom.
The Mare
عیسی میآید
Ali Zhekan
Reza Kianian, Shila Khodadad
A captive warrior, Issa, who has long been thinking about various plans to escape from the camp, takes advantage of a golden opportunity and runs away from the camp immediately. A number of Ba'athist troops pursue him, but he continues steadfastly and boldly to flee while they are firing their bullets. But eventually, he manages to return to his homeland by plunging into the border river ...
Issa Is Coming
