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Iranian Cinema
Films made under censorship that turned restriction into method: children as protagonists, documentary textures, and endings that hand the judgement to the audience.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.

Close Up
Tiziano Sossi · 2012

A Separation
Asghar Farhadi · 2011

Taste of Cherry
Abbas Kiarostami · 1997

Children of Heaven
Hanung Bramantyo · 2026
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