1961-04-01 • 0h 24min
The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), formed upon nationalization of the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, employed film systematically, producing many films on oil and petrochemical subjects. It also made films depicting Iran's progress and modernization, highlighting the role of the Shah and NIOC in that direction. Under its auspices, Ebrahim Golestan directed A FIRE (1961), a highly visual treatment of a seventy-day oil well fire in the Khuzestan region of southwestern Iran. This film was edited by the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad and won two awards at the Venice Film Festival in 1961.
Third Sister Liu
Monkey Business
Taxidermia
Smiles of a Summer Night
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
Decalogue II
Re-Existences
American Beauty
Something Wild
Night of the Living Dead: Re-Animation
Stroszek
Decalogue VI
Twin Peaks
Re-Generator
Love Songs
An American in Paris
The Isle
The Merchant of Venice
Mean Creek
Torn Curtain
