Terrestrial Verses (2023)

Original title

آیه های زمینی

Directed by

Alireza Khatami, Ali Asgari

Genre

drama film

Country

Iran

Runtime

1h 17m

Rated

6

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 55 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film presents a series of vignettes about ordinary people in Iran navigating daily encounters with bureaucracy. Each scene shows someone facing a small but significant moment of confrontation or compromise with authority.

episodicquietrestrainedeverydaywryobservationalpoignanthumanistic

What happens

Terrestrial Verses (Persian: آیه های زمینی) is a 2023 Iranian film written and directed by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami. It had its world premiere at the Un Certain Regard section of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, on 23 May 2023. The film also had theatrical release in France, where it achieved approximately 100,000 admissions. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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