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A Stranger in Her Own City 2005
it’s important to watch this alongside the epilogue youtu.be/b29UQQ_dFMA?si=vGv81OvXohooHGlj. after 14 years of war and struggle, we see that the city has grown dull, and najmia’s childhood dreams linger like ghosts in the dust of the streets she once boldly played in.
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Dream of Silk 2003
the silk dreams of iranian girlhood, woven 20 years ago with the threads of love and rage, youthful joy and aged nihilism, the prison of suppression and zealous ideas about society, feminism, and revolution. a beautiful, often funny, but aching reflection on the women who came before us, the women we are expected to be now, and the women who we will leave this shattered world behind to. there are so many profound quotes throughout this short documentary that could only come…
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961
new achievement unlocked: watching the human condition trilogy in one sitting. these were 9+ devastating hours of witnessing a man slowly have his ideals torn from him by both the merciless reality of war and the inherent sins of his kind. so much despair that you can only sit still and cry by the end of this journey through manchuria, through war, and through the endless snow.
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