Omid (Persian: امید, meaning "Hope") was Iran's first domestically made satellite Omid is a data-processing satellite for research and telecommunications, Iran's state television reported that it was successfully launched on 2 February 2009. After being launched by an Iranian-made carrier rocket, Safir 2, the satellite was placed into a low Earth orbit. The launch, which coincided with the 30th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution and was supervised by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was also verified by NASA the following day as a success. Its Satellite Catalog Number or USSPACECOM object number is 33506.
Ahmadinejad said the satellite was launched to spread "monotheism, peace and justice" in the world. The Tehran Times reported that "Iran has said it wants to put its own satellites into orbit to monitor natural disasters in the earthquake-prone nation and improve its telecommunications." Foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the satellite was launched to "meet the needs of the country" and is "purely for peaceful purposes".
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Los Angeles, 1992. Nine year-old Kamron and his family have just moved to the country from Iran in search of the American Dream. Kamron's father struggles to maintain dignity in his search for a job, his mother wants to keep Persian traditions alive, while Kamron is thrust into the hip-hop culture of the 90s. With Michael Jordan showing the world humans can fly and the Dream Team winning Olympic gold, Kamron puts his faith in basketball. Left out of the recess basketball games, Kamron fantasizes about impressing his classmates with high-flying dunks - if only he had the magic shoes to pull them off! With the Persian New Year approaching, Kamron is certain that his parents will grant his wish and buy him the new Air Jordans, but when his parents can't afford the pricey shoes Kamron is disappointed with a box of budget sneakers. Kamron decides to take matters into his own hands - he'll get those Air Jordans one way or another, even if it means breaking the law and putting everything his family has worked for at risk...
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Omid flees his homeland because of his father's revolutionary poetry for freedom. To endure mandatory detention and deportation from Australia, Omid trusts in the wisdom of the great poets and his father's words to avoid internal surrender.
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In this movie, Shahrzad relives her life in the last moments before her death in reverse from death to childhood. The movie begins with Shahrzad waking up from a nightmare. She finds herself locked in a strange cabin of stone in the middle of a forest. She breaks out of the cabin and runs to the forest. Then she starts living her life in reverse from this moment! In the end, she realizes that she was stoned to death!
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Lieke and Millad are best friends. Milad land his family have been living in the Netherlands for years. Suddenly, Milad is told that he and his family have to leave, because they don't have a permit to stay. Lieke is upset. She wants to find a way to solve this problem. Together with Milad, she begins an exciting journey.
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Lars Hansen is in a job training program. He finds a potential job at a print shop, but his paperwork gets mixed up with an El Hassan. He is scheduled for a Danish class, since he's apparently an immigrant, but is unable to get the mixup fixed. When he learns that the new (and attractive) teacher, Ida, will have the class canceled and lose her job if El Hassan doesn't show up, he dyes his hair and puts on a false moustache to pose as El Hassan. He tries wooing her as Lars, but when she learns El Hassan might lose a job at the print shop to Lars, she won't have anything more to do with him. So instead, he befriends her as El Hassan. And that's just a few of the mixups.
Keywords: bureaucracy, immigration, mistaken-identity, xenophobia