What is Farsi Cinema Center?
Farsi Cinema Center is a Toronto-based nonprofit, nonpartisan platform connecting the Farsi film industries of Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan with the rest of the world. As the premier worldwide initiative devoted to Farsi cinema, its focus is on creating the space for networking, idea exchange, and collaboration among filmmakers, producers, talent, distributors and executives in film.
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International cinema has exclusive images that are profoundly rooted in a certain irreproducible culture. The future of Tajik cinema depends on the evolution of the country’s policies and principal ideologies.
Digital distribution platforms have transformed the way audiences watch films. With the notion of quality in mind, FCC created Watch Nook, an online collection of hand-picked quality titles from the Farsi-speaking region and its diaspora.
Despite the country’s harsh circumstances, the question surrounding gender and sexuality has been reflected in varied cultural forms such as literature, poetry, painting, and cinema within Iran. In this contributed article, Azadeh M.Kangarani reviews a few of the most influential Iranian queer films.