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Courtship | A Fire | Wave, Coral and Rock | The Hills of Marlik | The Crown Jewels of Iran | Harvest and Seed | Brick and Mirror | Secrets of the Jinn Valley Treasure | The House Is Black
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Featuring: Forugh Farrokhzad, Ebrahim Golestan, Taji Ahmadi, Parviz Sayyad, Zackaria Hashemi, Mary Apick, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Shahnaz Tehrani, Sadegh Bahrami, Jahangir Forouhar, Enayat Bakhshi
For the first-time ever on home video, this collection presents the complete output of the iconoclastic independent Iranian film studio founded in the late 1950s by a towering figure of Iranian culture, Ebrahim Golestan. The studio’s earliest productions were documentaries that helped bring Iranian cinema to international attention, including The House Is Black, directed by the poet Forough Farrokhzad. From 1961, the studio turned to fiction. Two feature films were completed, including the pivotal Brick and Mirror – both of which are presented here. After years of circulation in compromised versions, sometimes altered by censorship, these classics, which map the origins of the Iranian New Wave, are now presented in restored and definitive versions. The nine films in this set move fluidly from prose poetry to political allegory, achieving remarkable results that have inspired generations of filmmakers from Abbas Kiarostami to Jonathan Glazer.
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Courtship
Year: 1961
Time: 12
Aspect Ratios
1.37:1
Audio
Persian PCM Mono 2.0
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A Fire
Year: 1961
Time: 21
Aspect Ratios
1.37:1
Audio
Persian PCM Mono 2.0
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Wave, Coral and Rock
Year: 1962
Time: 40
Aspect Ratios
1.37:1
Audio
Persian PCM Mono 2.0
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The Hills of Marlik
Year: 1964
Time: 15
Aspect Ratios
1.37:1
Audio
Persian PCM Mono 2.0
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The Crown Jewels of Iran
Year: 1965
Time: 15
Aspect Ratios
1.37:1
Audio
Persian PCM Mono 2.0
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Harvest and Seed
Year: 1965
Time: 30
Aspect Ratios
1.37:1
Audio
Persian PCM Mono 2.0
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Brick and Mirror
Year: 1965
Time: 126
Aspect Ratios
1.37:1
Audio
Persian PCM Mono 2.0
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Secrets of the Jinn Valley Treasure
Year: 1974
Time: 120
Aspect Ratios
1.37:1
Audio
Persian PCM Mono 2.0
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The House Is Black
Year: 1963
Time: 20
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1.37:1
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Persian PCM Mono 2.0
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Discs:
BD-50 (3 Discs)
Total: 3 Discs
Regions:
A/B/C (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
Persian PCM Mono 2.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Outtakes, Introduction, Video Essay, Short Film, Documentary, Booklet
- Outtake from Brick and Mirror (3 mins)
- Introduction by curator and the Golestan restoration project collaborator Ehsan Khoshbakht (2026)
- Visual essay on Ebrahim Golestan by Ehsan Khoshbakht (2026)
- A restored programme of three short documentaries combining the talents of master director Golestan and Iran’s greatest female modernist poet, Forough Farrokzhad: A Fire (1961, 25 mins); Courtship (1961, 11 mins); The House is Black (1962, 22 mins)
- A restored programme of Golestan’s documentaries following his recurrent theme of the land and its people: The Crown Jewels of Iran (1965, 14 mins), Wave, Coral and Rock (1961, 41 mins); The Hills of Marlik (1963, 15 mins), Harvest and Seed (1965, 29 mins)
- Introductions to each programme by Ehsan Khoshbakht (2026)
- Introduction to Secrets of the Jinn Valley Treasure by Ehsan Khoshbakht (2026)
- See You Friday, Robinson - Mitra Farahani’s award-winning documentary chronicles an exchange of ideas between two giants of cinema - Golestan and Jean-Luc Godard - on the meaning of creativity in the twilight of life (2022, 96 mins)
- Booklet featuring archival writing by Ehsan Khoshbakht
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Courtship
A Fire
Wave, Coral and Rock
The Hills of Marlik
The Crown Jewels of Iran
Harvest and Seed
Brick and Mirror
Secrets of the Jinn Valley Treasure
The House Is Black
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