Mina Keshavarz
@minakeshavarz.bsky.social
Filmmaker, Writer and Creative Producer
Woman Life Freedom
Woman Life Freedom
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HER GAZE: Visionary Women Filmmakers Who Perform For Their Own Cameras. December 6th, 19h - Filmmakers Co-op, NYC expcinema.org/site/en/even...
HER GAZE: Visionary Women Filmmakers Who Perform For Their Own Cameras
On Saturday, December 6th, at 7pm, join us at The Film-Makers' Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) for HER GAZE: a program that brings together visionary women artists who perform for their...
expcinema.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
HER GAZE: Visionary Women Filmmakers Who Perform For Their Own Cameras. December 6th, 19h - Filmmakers Co-op, NYC expcinema.org/site/en/even...
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“I want a formally perfect film”
Pier Paolo Pasolini, who was murdered shortly before this article was published, spoke to S&S when we visited the set of the film in Mantua. He explained why being misunderstood was an intrinsic part of the work
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Pier Paolo Pasolini, who was murdered shortly before this article was published, spoke to S&S when we visited the set of the film in Mantua. He explained why being misunderstood was an intrinsic part of the work
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
“I want a formally perfect film”: Pasolini on Salò
The director of the depraved masterpiece Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, who was murdered shortly before this article was published, spoke to Sight and Sound when we visited the set of the film in Man...
www.bfi.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
“I want a formally perfect film”
Pier Paolo Pasolini, who was murdered shortly before this article was published, spoke to S&S when we visited the set of the film in Mantua. He explained why being misunderstood was an intrinsic part of the work
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Pier Paolo Pasolini, who was murdered shortly before this article was published, spoke to S&S when we visited the set of the film in Mantua. He explained why being misunderstood was an intrinsic part of the work
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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💡 New ways, new ideas 🎥
The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin will take place in Paris from 24 to 30 November 2025. An event open to everyone, inviting us to reflect together on contemporary cinema and the visual arts. The full programme will be announced soon.
👉 All info: art-action.org/pro
The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin will take place in Paris from 24 to 30 November 2025. An event open to everyone, inviting us to reflect together on contemporary cinema and the visual arts. The full programme will be announced soon.
👉 All info: art-action.org/pro
October 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
💡 New ways, new ideas 🎥
The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin will take place in Paris from 24 to 30 November 2025. An event open to everyone, inviting us to reflect together on contemporary cinema and the visual arts. The full programme will be announced soon.
👉 All info: art-action.org/pro
The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin will take place in Paris from 24 to 30 November 2025. An event open to everyone, inviting us to reflect together on contemporary cinema and the visual arts. The full programme will be announced soon.
👉 All info: art-action.org/pro
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Mehrangiz Imenpour, artiste peintre, a perdu la vie à la suite des bombardements israéliens sur la prison d'Evin à Téhéran, le lundi 23 juin. Son domicile était situé à proximité de la prison. #FemmeVieLiberte
June 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Mehrangiz Imenpour, artiste peintre, a perdu la vie à la suite des bombardements israéliens sur la prison d'Evin à Téhéran, le lundi 23 juin. Son domicile était situé à proximité de la prison. #FemmeVieLiberte
I am 41 years old, I was born in the middle of Iran-Iraq war on 1984, grew up in Bushehr under bombs, I grew up with the fear of war, under US sanction, under suppression in Iran and now again war started against my home country, a war that has targeted us and Iranian civil movement for freedom.
June 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I am 41 years old, I was born in the middle of Iran-Iraq war on 1984, grew up in Bushehr under bombs, I grew up with the fear of war, under US sanction, under suppression in Iran and now again war started against my home country, a war that has targeted us and Iranian civil movement for freedom.
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"Consisting almost entirely of footage captured at Masefar Yatta, with non-manipulative editing, minimal voiceover, and no music score and special effects, No Other Land feels palpably real"
Watch Oscar-winning Palestionian documentary now, for free:
dmovies.org/2025/03/06/n...
Watch Oscar-winning Palestionian documentary now, for free:
dmovies.org/2025/03/06/n...
No Other Land
The latest Best Documentary Academy Award winner is a painfully real and objective register of the horrors Palestinians have to endure, and of the unhinged depravity of their oppressors - stream it no...
dmovies.org
March 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"Consisting almost entirely of footage captured at Masefar Yatta, with non-manipulative editing, minimal voiceover, and no music score and special effects, No Other Land feels palpably real"
Watch Oscar-winning Palestionian documentary now, for free:
dmovies.org/2025/03/06/n...
Watch Oscar-winning Palestionian documentary now, for free:
dmovies.org/2025/03/06/n...
تلاش کردم یک فمنیست سرخوش باشم ولی خیلی عصبانی بودم.
-انیس واردا، تکهای از فیلم سواحل انیس
-انیس واردا، تکهای از فیلم سواحل انیس
March 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
تلاش کردم یک فمنیست سرخوش باشم ولی خیلی عصبانی بودم.
-انیس واردا، تکهای از فیلم سواحل انیس
-انیس واردا، تکهای از فیلم سواحل انیس
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"Impunity helped to create dictatorship-worshipping and torture-loving figures"
Will this year's dark horse make history and become the first Brazilian film to win an Oscar, perhaps even Best Picture
dmovies.org/2024/09/01/i...
Will this year's dark horse make history and become the first Brazilian film to win an Oscar, perhaps even Best Picture
dmovies.org/2024/09/01/i...
I'm Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui)
THREE OSCAR NOMINATIONS: In a career-defining performance, Fernanda Torres (with a helping hand from her mum) establishes Walter Salles's latest film as the ultimate Brazilian dictatorship drama
dmovies.org
March 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"Impunity helped to create dictatorship-worshipping and torture-loving figures"
Will this year's dark horse make history and become the first Brazilian film to win an Oscar, perhaps even Best Picture
dmovies.org/2024/09/01/i...
Will this year's dark horse make history and become the first Brazilian film to win an Oscar, perhaps even Best Picture
dmovies.org/2024/09/01/i...
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They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.
February 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.
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"Fleifel makes it abundantly clear that the fate of Palestinians - real-life and fiction - is as open-ended as his movie's final denouement"
In cinemas on Friday:
dmovies.org/2024/06/28/t...
In cinemas on Friday:
dmovies.org/2024/06/28/t...
To a Land Unknown
Transactional human beings and accidental places: Palestinian refugees resort to a life of crime in order to survive and be reunited with their loved ones in Europe
dmovies.org
February 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"Fleifel makes it abundantly clear that the fate of Palestinians - real-life and fiction - is as open-ended as his movie's final denouement"
In cinemas on Friday:
dmovies.org/2024/06/28/t...
In cinemas on Friday:
dmovies.org/2024/06/28/t...
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دنیای خیال در ایران و دگرگونی آن
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محمدرضا نیکفر − دین در ایران، در دورهی انقلاب ۱۳۵۷ برای تودهی وسیعی از مردم خیالانگیز شد. اما اینک انرژی خیالانگیزی آن از دست داده است. آن انرژی برای همه از دست نرفته، اما دیگر نمیتواند به شکلی فراگیر خیالانگیز شود.
www.radiozamaneh.com/848490
محمدرضا نیکفر − دین در ایران، در دورهی انقلاب ۱۳۵۷ برای تودهی وسیعی از مردم خیالانگیز شد. اما اینک انرژی خیالانگیزی آن از دست داده است. آن انرژی برای همه از دست نرفته، اما دیگر نمیتواند به شکلی فراگیر خیالانگیز شود.
دنیای خیال در ایران و دگرگونی آن
محمدرضا نیکفر − دین در ایران، در دورهی انقلاب ۱۳۵۷ برای تودهی وسیعی از مردم خیالانگیز شد. اما اینک انرژی خیالانگیزی آن از دست داده است. آن انرژی برای همه از دست نرفته، اما دیگر نمیتواند به شکلی ف...
www.radiozamaneh.com
February 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
دنیای خیال در ایران و دگرگونی آن
www.radiozamaneh.com/848490
محمدرضا نیکفر − دین در ایران، در دورهی انقلاب ۱۳۵۷ برای تودهی وسیعی از مردم خیالانگیز شد. اما اینک انرژی خیالانگیزی آن از دست داده است. آن انرژی برای همه از دست نرفته، اما دیگر نمیتواند به شکلی فراگیر خیالانگیز شود.
www.radiozamaneh.com/848490
محمدرضا نیکفر − دین در ایران، در دورهی انقلاب ۱۳۵۷ برای تودهی وسیعی از مردم خیالانگیز شد. اما اینک انرژی خیالانگیزی آن از دست داده است. آن انرژی برای همه از دست نرفته، اما دیگر نمیتواند به شکلی فراگیر خیالانگیز شود.
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"Political censorship is incompatible with cinema, and also with the most expensive values of democracy"
Just as he prepares to attend the 75th edition of the Berlinale, DMovies's editor Victor Fraga writes an open letter to organisation
dmovies.org/2025/02/06/t...
Just as he prepares to attend the 75th edition of the Berlinale, DMovies's editor Victor Fraga writes an open letter to organisation
dmovies.org/2025/02/06/t...
Talking to an old friend: our open letter to the Berlinale
Just as he is about to attend the 75th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival,. DMovies's editor Victor Fraga writes an open letter to organisation; it feels like talking to a very old and ...
dmovies.org
February 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"Political censorship is incompatible with cinema, and also with the most expensive values of democracy"
Just as he prepares to attend the 75th edition of the Berlinale, DMovies's editor Victor Fraga writes an open letter to organisation
dmovies.org/2025/02/06/t...
Just as he prepares to attend the 75th edition of the Berlinale, DMovies's editor Victor Fraga writes an open letter to organisation
dmovies.org/2025/02/06/t...
پنجاه سال از ساخته شدن ژان دیلمان میگذره، یکی از فمنیستی ترین فیلمهای تاریخ سینما و برای اولین بار در تاریخ هفتاد ساله محله سینمایی سایت اند ساوند، یک فیلم به کارگردانی یک زن در صدر بهترین فیلمهای تاریخ سینما قرار گرفت ، این نشون میده چه راه طولانی طی شده. و به قول لورا مالوی شاید باید گفت:
”One might say that there was a before and after Jeanne Dielman, just as there had once been a before and after Citizen Kane.”
— Laura Mulvey on Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, back in UK cinemas now for its 50th anniversary www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
— Laura Mulvey on Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, back in UK cinemas now for its 50th anniversary www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
The greatest film of all time: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
For the first time in 70 years the Sight and Sound poll has been topped by a film directed by a woman – and one that takes a consciously, radically feminist approach to cinema. Things will never be the same.
www.bfi.org.uk
February 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
پنجاه سال از ساخته شدن ژان دیلمان میگذره، یکی از فمنیستی ترین فیلمهای تاریخ سینما و برای اولین بار در تاریخ هفتاد ساله محله سینمایی سایت اند ساوند، یک فیلم به کارگردانی یک زن در صدر بهترین فیلمهای تاریخ سینما قرار گرفت ، این نشون میده چه راه طولانی طی شده. و به قول لورا مالوی شاید باید گفت:
خوندن کتاب من را واقعا خوشحال میکنه، یکی از تفریحاتم چرخیدن در کتابفروشیهاس در گاه بیپولی هرروز اگروقت کنم بعد از کار گریزی به یک کتابفروشی میزنم . و هیچچیز به اندازه خوندن خوشحالمنمیکنه
After the First World War, traumatized soldiers were often prescribed a course of reading.
Can Reading Make You Happier?
After the First World War, traumatized soldiers were often prescribed a course of reading.
nyer.cm
February 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
خوندن کتاب من را واقعا خوشحال میکنه، یکی از تفریحاتم چرخیدن در کتابفروشیهاس در گاه بیپولی هرروز اگروقت کنم بعد از کار گریزی به یک کتابفروشی میزنم . و هیچچیز به اندازه خوندن خوشحالمنمیکنه
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“People are always asking me, ‘Who will you pass the torch to?’ ” Gloria Steinem said. “The question makes me angry. There is no one torch—there are many torches—and I’m using my torch to light other torches.” Revisit a Profile of the feminist trailblazer, from 2015.
Gloria Steinem’s Life on the Feminist Frontier
With her writing, her community organizing, and her partnerships, she has remained at the forefront of the movement for more than fifty years.
nyer.cm
February 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
“People are always asking me, ‘Who will you pass the torch to?’ ” Gloria Steinem said. “The question makes me angry. There is no one torch—there are many torches—and I’m using my torch to light other torches.” Revisit a Profile of the feminist trailblazer, from 2015.
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Just as he is about to attend the 75th edition of the Berlinale, DMovies's editor Victor Fraga writes an open letter to organisation; it feels like talking to a very old and dear friend about a very grave mistake they made
dmovies.org/2025/02/06/t...
dmovies.org/2025/02/06/t...
Talking to an old friend: our open letter to the Berlinale
Just as he is about to attend the 75th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival,. DMovies's editor Victor Fraga writes an open letter to organisation; it feels like talking to a very old and ...
dmovies.org
February 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Just as he is about to attend the 75th edition of the Berlinale, DMovies's editor Victor Fraga writes an open letter to organisation; it feels like talking to a very old and dear friend about a very grave mistake they made
dmovies.org/2025/02/06/t...
dmovies.org/2025/02/06/t...
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کوندرا: ارزش طنز را در دوران وحشت استالینیستی آموختم. آن موقع بیست ساله بودم. همیشه میتوانستم کسی را که استالینیست نبود-کسی که نیازی نبود از او بترسم-از نوع لبخندش تشخیص دهم. حس طنز نشانهای قابلاعتماد برای شناخت آدمها بود.
از آن زمان به بعد، از جهانی که در حال از دست دادن حس طنزش است، وحشت داشتهام.
از آن زمان به بعد، از جهانی که در حال از دست دادن حس طنزش است، وحشت داشتهام.
February 6, 2025 at 4:39 AM
کوندرا: ارزش طنز را در دوران وحشت استالینیستی آموختم. آن موقع بیست ساله بودم. همیشه میتوانستم کسی را که استالینیست نبود-کسی که نیازی نبود از او بترسم-از نوع لبخندش تشخیص دهم. حس طنز نشانهای قابلاعتماد برای شناخت آدمها بود.
از آن زمان به بعد، از جهانی که در حال از دست دادن حس طنزش است، وحشت داشتهام.
از آن زمان به بعد، از جهانی که در حال از دست دادن حس طنزش است، وحشت داشتهام.
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“Generally no one shows the things I show in this film, continuously. The kitchen, this continual life with the minimal kind of things in it: cooking, cleaning, etc, because these things are very low in the hierarchy of images. What is very high in the hierarchy of images is to show a car, a kiss…”
February 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
“Generally no one shows the things I show in this film, continuously. The kitchen, this continual life with the minimal kind of things in it: cooking, cleaning, etc, because these things are very low in the hierarchy of images. What is very high in the hierarchy of images is to show a car, a kiss…”
برای من هیچ سوشال مدیایی جای وبلاگنویسی را نمیگیره، اون قرارهای ماهیانه دیدار در تهران ، هر کسی از یک نقطهای از ایران میومد، دوران طلایی
دوستیها و رد و بدلهای روشنفکرانه، واقعا چی شد وبلاگنویسی از دست رفت؟
دوستیها و رد و بدلهای روشنفکرانه، واقعا چی شد وبلاگنویسی از دست رفت؟
February 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
برای من هیچ سوشال مدیایی جای وبلاگنویسی را نمیگیره، اون قرارهای ماهیانه دیدار در تهران ، هر کسی از یک نقطهای از ایران میومد، دوران طلایی
دوستیها و رد و بدلهای روشنفکرانه، واقعا چی شد وبلاگنویسی از دست رفت؟
دوستیها و رد و بدلهای روشنفکرانه، واقعا چی شد وبلاگنویسی از دست رفت؟
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“Next to Naruse Mikio, Akerman is the cinema’s greatest poet of the act of walking. Her characters perform every possible variation on this action. They march in straight lines and wander in circles.”
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Chantal Akerman: a primer
Throughout her career, Chantal Akerman pursued certain themes and ideas. Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin offer a guide to some of the most important.
www.bfi.org.uk
February 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
“Next to Naruse Mikio, Akerman is the cinema’s greatest poet of the act of walking. Her characters perform every possible variation on this action. They march in straight lines and wander in circles.”
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Grand Jury Prize of Sundance Film Festival 2025 for “Cutting Through Rocks” by my lovely friends Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eini from Iran ❤️❤️
#sundancefilmfestival
#sundancefilmfestival
February 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Grand Jury Prize of Sundance Film Festival 2025 for “Cutting Through Rocks” by my lovely friends Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eini from Iran ❤️❤️
#sundancefilmfestival
#sundancefilmfestival
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Shadow Whispers: Selected Filmworks of Kaoru Tachibana. February 28th, 21h - Borgo Santa Brigida 5/A, Parma expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Shadow Whispers: Selected Filmworks of Kaoru Tachibana
“SHADOW WHISPERS”Selected Filmworks of Kaoru TachibanaA filmmaker now unknown and forgotten but with a rich production of personal works on film, ranging from experimental cinema to avant-garde home m...
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January 31, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Shadow Whispers: Selected Filmworks of Kaoru Tachibana. February 28th, 21h - Borgo Santa Brigida 5/A, Parma expcinema.org/site/en/even...
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چند روز پیش مردم بوکان به درستی ریختن بیرون در اعتراض به تجاوز و قتل یک کودک. زنی در شوشتر با ۱۶ گلوله توسط پدر و برادرش به قتل رسیده هیچ صدایی از کسی بلند نمیشه. چون تجاوز و قتل زنان طبیعیسازی شده.
January 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
چند روز پیش مردم بوکان به درستی ریختن بیرون در اعتراض به تجاوز و قتل یک کودک. زنی در شوشتر با ۱۶ گلوله توسط پدر و برادرش به قتل رسیده هیچ صدایی از کسی بلند نمیشه. چون تجاوز و قتل زنان طبیعیسازی شده.