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Dorna Khazeni
in issue 47
What Is Love? Mania Akbari Talks About Life, Love,
and 20 Angosht (20 Fingers)
This first-time director from Iran inspires cheers — and controversy
in issue 44
Commodifying Desire: Sexual Dependency
Where is the love?
in issue 37
Walking with the Wind, by Abbas Kiarostami
Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, by Scott Sheridan; and Hollywood's Film Wars with France: Film-Trade Diplomacy and the Emergence of the French Quota Policy, by Jens Ulff-Møller
in issue 35
Close-Up: Iranian Cinema Past Present and Future, by Hamid Dabash
