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  • 2024
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 17 m
  • 2024
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 17 m
Terrestrial Verses

Summary In Tehran, a new father seeks to register the name (insufficiently Islamic, he is told) of his newborn son; a 20-something rideshare driver caught on camera without a hijab attempts to retrieve her impounded car; a man with poem tattoos applies for a driver’s license; an elderly woman pleads with the police for the return of her beloved ...

Written By: Alireza Khatami

In Theaters Now
  • 2024
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 17 m
  • 2024
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 17 m

Terrestrial Verses

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Summary In Tehran, a new father seeks to register the name (insufficiently Islamic, he is told) of his newborn son; a 20-something rideshare driver caught on camera without a hijab attempts to retrieve her impounded car; a man with poem tattoos applies for a driver’s license; an elderly woman pleads with the police for the return of her beloved ...

Written By: Alireza Khatami

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100
Apr 26, 2024
Terrestrial Verses, one of the most brilliant and provocative films to emerge from Iran recently, has qualities that link it to both the modernist formal traditions of post-1979 Iranian cinema and the more recent trend of social and political asperities aimed at the authoritarian repressiveness of the Islamic Republic.
By Godfrey Cheshire FULL REVIEW
90
Mar 21, 2024
Terrestrial Verses is a marvel of potent understatement.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
83
Mar 21, 2024
Though the structure of the vignettes can grow repetitive as the film moves along to a scene nearly identical to the one that came before, Terrestrial Verses never falters in challenging traditional notions while simultaneously providing a glimmer of hope.
By Jihane Bousfiha FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 26, 2024
It is a modest, methodical movie-in-vignettes that demonstrates the far-reaching, constrictive force of Iran’s regime and the society it has created. It is also a canny representation of the kind of straight-faced authoritarian illogic that creates its own delusional reality, which is then forced upon a people.
By Zachary Barnes FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 21, 2024
This is punchy first-person filmmaking, from the point of view of the last person you want to be.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 21, 2024
While there is no doubting the filmmakers’ admirably humanistic and progressive intentions, however, the picture itself somehow ends up less than the sum of its often-impressive parts.
By Neil Young FULL REVIEW
63
Apr 21, 2024
The sense of repetition that the film leans into in order to acknowledge the inescapable grip of the state is as much a feature as it is a bug.
By Steven Scaife FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Cynefilms, Seven Springs Pictures, Taat Films
Release Date Apr 26, 2024
Duration 1 h 17 m
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Awards

Luxembourg City Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
The Hague Movies that Matter Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cleveland International Film Festival
• 2 Nominations

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