The Iranian cinema and its paradoxes

This course will deal with the narrative that characterizes Iranian cinema throughout its history, which is closely related to the Persian literary and cultural tradition. This course aims to better understand Iranian cinematography, which, although being popular in international film festivals, does not have much presence in mainstream media. In the eight sessions that Zara Razi will impart, Iranian cinema’s history will be reviewed to reach the present and approach its protagonists through the works they have written and directed. This country’s cultural identity finds privileged means of transmission and communication in the cinema, beyond the critical theories that allow us to analyze its contents. Based on figures such as Abbas Kiarostami, Majid Asghar Farhadi, Masoud Kimiayi, or Niki Karimi and Narges Abyar, Dr Razi will construct the discourse for the analysis of the state of this cinematography. The course is carried out in the Online mode and has 6 sessions. And in each session, an approach to Iranian cinema is approached from different dimensions.

Sessions:

• • Session 1 | April 19, 2021

The story of the Iranian cinema. The pre- and post-revolutionary cinema

How came the cinema to Iran?

Before and after the Islamic Revolution in 1979

• • Session 2 | April 26, 2021

The appearance of women in Iranian cinema

The struggle of women in the cinema

• • Session 3 | May 3, 2021 and
  • Session 4 | May 10, 2021

Contribuition to the film culture of Iran by the grat film directors of this country

Abbas Kiarostami, Majid Asghar Farhadi, Masoud Kimiayi

• • Session 5 | May 17, 2021

Female filmmakers

Niki Karami and Narges Abyar

• • Session 6 | May 24, 2021

The future of the Iranian cinema

The new genetations of filmmakers

Professor:

Dra. Zara Razi is the president of the Hispanic Persian Film Association, which since 2016 has aimed to make Iranian cinema known in Spain and Latin America. She has a doctorate in journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid and has completed a master’s degree in Social Communication at the same university, and another at the Central University of Venezuela. Her doctoral thesis has been on Iranian cinema, a subject on which she has written several texts and has organized seminars such as the webinar “A look at the cinema” by Majid Majidi, which has recently taken place with the collaboration of Casa Asia.