A post-modern documentary that examines the evolution of the capital of Iran as far back as the Qajar dynasty and through to the present – from modest village to booming metropolis with all of the social, economic, and political problems that come with it.
Documentary, 68 minutes, Persian w/English Subtitles, Iran (2007)
Massoud Bakhshi was born in Tehran, Iran. Having studied filmmaking in Italy he has worked as a film critic, screenwriter and producer. His works include Lost Windows, Praying for the Rain and Bagh Dad Ber Ber.
Our Persian Rug, 2010
- Edinburgh Iranian Film Festival (2009 / UK)
- Portland International Film Festival (2008 / USA)
- Hot Docs Film Festival (2008 / Canada)
- MORELIA International Film Festival (2008 / Mexico)
- Santiago International Film Festival (2008 / Chile)
- Planet Doc Review International Film Festival (2008 / Poland)
- IDFA Amsterdam (2007 / Netherlands)
- Best Director, 25th Fajr Int’l Film Festival (2007 / Iran)
- Best Director, 11th House of Cinema Film Festival (2007 / Iran)
- AVINI Prize for Best Documentary of the year (2007 / Iran)
- Audience Award, CINEMA VERITE Int’l Documentary Festival (2007 / Iran)
Director and screenwriter: Massoud Bakhshi
Director of Photography: Bayram Fazli
Narrator: Nosrat Karimi
Editor: Ali Mohammad Ghasemi
Sound Recorder: Mohammad Reza Yousefi
Sound Editor: Behrouz Shahamat
Original Music: Mohsen Namjou, Navid Afghah
Executive Producer: Mohammad Reza Khodaveici
“An imaginative and engaging history of Tehran, Tehran Has No More Pomegranates uses a petulant, barbed humor to show how the city has undergone a sea change to become the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran. » VARIETY
“A testimony of the agitated life in the Iranian capital… colored by subtle irony. Probably the only resource to explain its controversial reality, modernization attempts, and the incorporation of western values. Tehran has no more Pomegranates is far from the type of film that comes to one’s mind when thinking of Iranian cinema” – O Estado de São Paulo
“One of the most original and innovative films about a city that I’ve seen in a while- The film just floods over you—it plays out almost like a dream!” - Pamela Cohn, Still in Motion