During a film shoot in Tehran the director is trying to film a romantic scene but the government censor keeps interrupting and getting involved.

A television recording of a play first shown at The Royal Court Theatre and written by Howard Brenton and Tariq Ali in response to the fatwah against Salman Rushdie - broadcast on Channel 4 TV.

Five stories of romance, farewells, bitter love and stolen kisses...

"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man." -Dostoevsky.

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This short comedy about the love of acting features a grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter in three different eras: first backstage at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1900, then backstage at a college theater in 1956, and finally, in the make-up room of the Charlie Rose television program in 1992. One of several short pieces commissioned for the PBS television special Great Performances 20th Anniversary.

In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody. She had been arrested by Iran’s religious police, accused of not wearing her hijab properly. The authorities said she had died of a heart attack, but rumors spread that she had been beaten on arrest. Citizens took to the streets in their thousands in fury. This is an extraordinary and shocking insight into what has been happening across Iran, revealing a regime under huge pressure and resorting to extreme cruelty to control its citizens.

A celebration of the physical phenomenon of the kiss.

A musician is gifted with the supernatural ability to see a couple's destiny whenever they kiss. But when he sees the grim fate of the woman he loves, he must use his powers to defy destiny itself.