{"id":2249365,"date":"2026-01-25T06:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2249365"},"modified":"2026-01-25T06:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:46:13","slug":"the-friends-house-is-here-review-a-touching-tale-of-sisterhood-defiantly-celebrates-tehrans-underground-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-friends-house-is-here-review-a-touching-tale-of-sisterhood-defiantly-celebrates-tehrans-underground-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Friend\u2019s House Is Here\u2019 Review: A Touching Tale of Sisterhood Defiantly Celebrates Tehran\u2019s Underground Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Artists create not because they\u2019ve been given permission to do so, but simply because they must. This certainty illuminates filmmaking duo <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1986692\/\">Hossein Keshavarz<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3622251\/\">Maryam Ataei<\/a>\u2019s Tehran-set drama \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt38980819\/\">The Friend\u2019s House Is Here<\/a>,\u201d a sophisticated and heroic celebration both of Iran\u2019s brave communities of underground artists who boldly express themselves despite their autocratic government\u2019s attempts to muzzle them, and of the country\u2019s resilient women who recently led the pivotal \u201cWoman, Life, Freedom\u201d movement.<\/p>\n<p>Shot entirely (and perilously) in secret, much like the recent, genre-defying work of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0070159\/\">Jafar Panahi<\/a> (including the Oscar-nominated \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt36491653\/\">It Was Just An Accident<\/a>\u201d), and completed in the aftermath of the June War, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt38980819\/\">The Friend\u2019s House Is Here<\/a>\u201d was reportedly smuggled out of the country once the ongoing protests, with thousands of confirmed deaths, erupted. In that regard, Keshavarz and Ataei\u2019s spirited effort feels like a modern-day heir to virtuosos like Panahi,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists create not because they\u2019ve been given permission to do so, but simply because they must. This certainty illuminates filmmaking duo Hossein Keshavarz and Maryam Ataei\u2019s Tehran-set drama \u201cThe Friend\u2019s House Is Here,\u201d a sophisticated and heroic celebration both of Iran\u2019s brave communities of underground artists who boldly express themselves despite their autocratic government\u2019s attempts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2249366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2249365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018The-Friends-House-Is-Here-Review-A-Touching-Tale-of.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249367,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249365\/revisions\/2249367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2249366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}