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Zingara, La [The Gypsy]

Date produced: 1933

Filmmaker(s):

Ugo Sorrentino

Description:

"a soggetto"/fiction


Zoo

Date produced: 1936

Filmmaker(s):

Fulvio Testi

Luigi Saporito

Description:

"a soggetto sonoro"; filmed with the recently released Italian camera from Novati and the soundtrack was also made with the Milanese company Novati's devices made by the engineer Dollari.

"Oltre a questi ve ne sono altri che apparirebbero soggetto ma la trama è così tenue e poco chiara che noi non esitiamo a porli fra i documentari (La prora incatenata; Zoo; Cacciatori delle Alpi o 65 O.M.)"—Cinegiornale, 1936
"In addition to these there are others that would appear subject but the plot is so tenuous and unclear that we do not hesitate to place them among the documentaries (The Chained Bow; Zoo; Hunters of the Alps or 65 O.M.)"-Cinegiorniale, 1936


Zoorilla

Date produced: 1933

Filmmaker(s):

Freeman Taylor


Zucchero [Sugar]

Date produced: 1938

Filmmaker(s):

Franco D' aracais

Description:

scientific documentary


ابوئی (Abouyi)

Date produced: 1973

Filmmaker(s):

Seyed Baha Taheri


ان مرد اسب دارد (Un Mard Asb Darad) [The Man Has a Horse]

Date produced: 1973

Filmmaker(s):

Naser Gholamrezayi

Description:

Film about the lives of people in Lorestan, Iran.


چه پرستاره بود شبم (Che Por Setare Boud Shabam) [How Full of Stars Was My Night]

Date produced: 1975

Filmmaker(s):

Naser Gholamrezayi

Description:

The film follows a blind young man in Lorestan who spends his summer alone in his village while everyone else has moved under the mountain away from the heat. He waits for cars next to the road in hopes that they will give him money. While trying to find a car that passed him one day he finds a water stream by accident and the calmness of its environment makes him seek refuge there every day. But the seasons change and after the first rain, the small stream turns into a big body of water and the young man is left with nowhere to bring him happiness every day.


خاکباران (Khakbaran) [Petrichor]

Date produced: 1974

Filmmaker(s):

Kianoush Ayari

Description:

The story follows an old man and a young boy who dig a well together. The boy digs the well from the bottom and the old man sits at the top and empties the dirt that he pulls up in a bucket


خانه ابری (Khaneye Abri) [A Cloudy House]

Date produced: 1971

Filmmaker(s):

Ibrahim Haghighi

Description:

An old man in a dust covered old house sings a song and goes about his day, walking around and cleaning. Sudden loud sounds from outside throw him into a frenzy. Unable to tell whether it’s the sound of war, a celebration, laughter or shouts of agony, he barricades himself in his house and takes refuge in his basement where he continues to sing his song again.


دختربس نمی‌خواست تنها باشد (Dokhtar Bas Nemikhast Tanha Bashad) [Dokhtar Bas Didn’t Want to be Alone]

Date produced: 1971

Filmmaker(s):

Naser Gholamrezayi

Description:

The story follows a little girl named “Dokhtar Bas” who catches a frog for her mother to cut open and put on her father’s infected knee injury. The next day the wound is disinfected and her father goes back to work in the wilderness. Dokhtar Bas looks at the dried up corpse of the frog and asks her mother if her father is truly healed now. Later in an attempt to revive the frog she first puts it in water, then catches another frog and like her mother cuts it open and places it on the dead frog’s corpse, tying them together. Checking the bandaged bundle the next morning she discovers two dead frogs and she asks her mother again whether her father really is completely healed now.


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