Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

When he takes a job as a schoolteacher in a new neighborhood, the hapless intellectual Mr. Hekmati finds that he is a fish out of water.

Siamak is a thief who is working for Abbas Khalkoob. He lives with his gambler friend Tagfgdfzhi in a rented room. One day Siamak pickpocket a guy in the bus but Reza steals it from him. This leads these two to know each other and fall in love.

Based on an ancient story Sang-e Sabor it's the story of a girl Nardaneh who one day hears a voice telling her that soon she will marry with a dead man. One day she enters a castle and in one of it's room finds a dead body with a book beside it. She begins to read the book and follows the instructions step by step.

Sohrab is going from his city Abadan to work in his uncle's factory in Tehran. Sohrab meets a girl Taraneh who is pregnant. She with the help of Asghar Zhila wants to accused Sohrab of ...

An arrogant movie star's life drastically changes when a teenage girl shows up.

A young student goes blind the moment he puts on a turban. Contrary to the traditions of the seminary, he decides to put his life in order and gets into some humorous adventures along the way.

The movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings.

Haleh and her husband Amir are having to cope with a tough situation: their four-year-old son Ilya has suddenly stopped talking. There is evidently no physiological cause, so they go to see a psychotherapist who comes up with a radical solution. Ilya’s mother, who has cared for him until now, is to take a back seat while the father assumes her role looking after the child. This change in the established order sends the family into a downward spiral of tension and aggression, and it's extremely difficult to see a way out.

After a tragic accident of Salman, he can no longer ride a horse in the race. His son now has to fulfill his father legacy of horse racing against all odds.

Hassan and Atta return from the United States after a few years and go after Abbas Agha's car, which they rented and stole from a person named Peykan, played by Behnam Bani, and when they meet him, he seeks to sing. Atta and Hassan, as his composer and songwriter, help him, who also gets involved in events...

A rich and arrogant man becomes aware that his two sons are married to two girls from poor families. He refuses that causing his two sons to leave him in his palace alone. But that cause ...

Two brothers are separated from each other during an accident in their childhood and after a long time they find each other, one is known as "the thief in black" and the other is a police officer.

Breaking a centuries-old taboo, Ava stands as the first woman in Iran to master the male-dominated craft of carpentry. Within the grit and clamor of the workshop, she confronts a society that deems her presence forbidden. This observational documentary captures her daily battle against physical hardships and social judgment.

An old woman's death brings her children together so maybe family's wounds will be healed during this unwanted confrontation.

As Zohreh returns from a party, she becomes entangled in her friend's complicated situation, leading to a major decision.

The movie Okht al-Reza (Reza's sister) narrates the journey of the Lady of Dignity, Hazrat Masoumeh PBUH from Madinah to Qom. While portraying the events of the Prophet's path, her time, Ma'mun's conspiracies and efforts for her martyrdom, the work tries to express a mystical narrative of the character of Hazrat Masoumeh. It deals with the story of this journey, and includes passages about the political and social atmosphere of the time, where the general atmosphere of the storytelling is somewhat close to the documentary.

A celebrated nightclub singer faces an emotional crossroads when she meets a hardened detective investigating a series of crimes tied to the club’s underbelly.

Just a few hours to his wedding, Amir, a lad from the south of Tehran, receives a call from his closest friend Habib who insist on meeting him to speak about an urgent issue. He rushes to Habib's works place and there listens to Habib's devastating claim that his future wife is not the sexually innocent girl he believed. In a mixture of rage and bafflement, he takes the bride to the wedding place and then departs to reveal the truth about her past. At the same time, a guy named Nekooyi, the owner of a broken company gets stabbed by his friend who seems to have an affair with his wife, Nasim. To get to the airport and leave the country they take a taxi, driven by nobody but the guy sought by Amir...

Laleh is a wandering girl who is arrested after a robbery at a railway station and promises the police officer that she will live a righteous life from now on. A young worker named Parviz tries to convince Laleh to marry him. But Laleh is against the marriage proposal, because she has to take care of her mother and father, who are always drunk. The owner of the house where Laleh's family lives convinces Laleh's father to consent to his daughter's marriage to Abbas.

The story is about a woman who, upon entering an all-boys school to find her son, encounters the strange and humorous behavior of the principal, the administrator, and the teachers, as if each of them has a hidden secret and is trying to mislead her with laughter and jokes.

Reza is a poor musician who is wandering the streets. One night he finds a baby and with all the difficulties he decides to brings him up. But when the boy's real father becomes aware that his child is alive he decides to take him back.

A sensation when released in 1999 in Iran, Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic. Tahimine Milani creates this scathing portrait of those traditions - aided by official indifference - which conspire to trap women and stop them from realizing their full potential; the inclusion of frank depictions of domestic violence was hailed by many as a breakthrough in dealing with a long taboo subject.

A man is forced to search for the best person with his lovely dog

The personal life of a couple is challenged when the wife gets a promotion over her husband and becomes his boss.

When Arezoo and Amir-Hossein can't conceive a child together, Arezoo's friend Tahareh is willing to act as a surrogate. But Tahareh's ex-husband has his say in the matter.

Amir is dead and all the people around him are accused of his murder. But as the investigations go further more interesting things appear to everyone.

The film is about Amir and Mehraneh, a married couple who can’t stand the sight of each other. Their marriage three years ago was a mistake, and their hellish life together has exhausted them — yet they are forced to tolerate each other for one more day and night.

An alien ,due to a series of events _beyond his control_ is sent to earth. Now both him and people of earth must learn to cope with each other despite their differences.

Feminine and romantic melodrama that women are the main target audience. The story of four intersecting narratives are intertwined and linked together. Foojan released the designer has to ...

A group of children flee from their homes using kites, to make a new adventure without their parents.

Two brothers: Taghi the Butcher and Reza have been separated since childhood. Taghi has become a neighborhood's mobster with Hassan and Mohammad, and Taghi, who lives with his mother, helps the poor people with his friend Esmal. Taghi falls in love with a dancer named Eshrat Shirazi...

Hossein Kurd Shabestri, the shepherd of Sardar Masih Khan, saves Fari Naz, Sardar's daughter, from some bandits. He goes to Isfahan to look for the girl, and in the market of the city, he has a dispute with Loti Haider and Mesh Asfar over the payment for the repair of his clothes and the food he ate. They take him to Sardar Masih Khan, and the Sardar pays for Hossein and appoints Mehtar Nasim Aiyar to teach Hossein the ways and customs of swordplay and Ghorchi becomes a Sardar.

On their way back from a wild party, Arine and Nobahar cause a car accident. A mysterious stranger by the name of Toofan offers to cover the costs. This won't be the last time they'll cross his path over the course of the night.

Morteza, a truck driver, is a family-oriented man but has a quick temper. His behavior has upset his daughter and son. When Morteza ends up in prison for involuntary manslaughter due to an accident, his daughter, realizing that her fiancé, who is also her cousin, does not earn enough to support their lives, starts working as a secretary for a wealthy man ...

Seti loves music and singing, and she yearns for her voice to be heard. But in Iran, women are forbidden by law from performing in public, so the young girl decides to stage her own personal protest. The street becomes her stage, and random passersby become her enthusiastic audience. Her star rises, and Seti becomes an idol for her generation—young people who refuse to live under ruthless political oppression any longer.

A professional hitman trackdown the daughter of a mobboss to bring her back dead or alive

Shirin is a woman facing problems in her marriage and with her child. She's trying desperately for a way to connect with her son and her husband.

Six families in different compartments of a train, moving through a rainy night. In a single, 145-minute take, the film depicts the families and how their lives are interwoven with each other. Vacillating between dream and reality, each story builds on the one before and leads into the next. Each destiny is influenced by the other one on board, and all hurtle to the same destination.

A story of food. When his father's restaurant is bankrupted, Hooshan decides to offer Beryani, an Isfahani cuisine, as the main dish.

After being released from prison, Morteza discovers that his fiancée, Mehri, has been married off to a moneylender. Mehri’s husband promises to divorce her in exchange for money. Morteza, together with a man named Karim, steals a fortune from drug traffickers and goes into hiding in the sugarcane fields...

The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), formed upon nationalization of the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, employed film systematically, producing many films on oil and petrochemical subjects. It also made films depicting Iran's progress and modernization, highlighting the role of the Shah and NIOC in that direction. Under its auspices, Ebrahim Golestan directed A FIRE (1961), a highly visual treatment of a seventy-day oil well fire in the Khuzestan region of southwestern Iran. This film was edited by the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad and won two awards at the Venice Film Festival in 1961.

A woman tries to escape from the much older man she was forced to marry.

The film is about a character named Omid who, after turning 40, still does not have a proper job and enters a new space in the upper part of the city in order to progress, where different situations arise for him

16-year-old Hormoz is consoled by the prospect of hiring on at the strip mine as he is married off to 13-year-old Hendi. Alas, the young man finds the doors of opportunity shut tight. When Hendi becomes pregnant Hormoz enters into an ominous pact with a smuggler in order to ensure his family’s livelihood.

Farhad, a well-known Iranian photographer, was born with a rare genetic disorder known as Treacher Collins syndrome (TCS), which affects the development of the facial structure. Although TCS has made Farhad stand out all his life, his determination and resilience are what truly set him apart.

Ali and Hassan are two intimate friends but when a woman Aghdas is intervening in between everything is change.

Bright Shadow (Persian: سايه روشن‎‎) is a 1997 Iranian drama film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)

Baran hires Ebi In order to grab Pirooz's attention and encourage him to marry her.

After spending time in prison for killing his wife's lover, Reza is looking to settle down and find a good wife for himself and a mother for his daughter. He meets a young girl and falls in love. But her circumstances and her past are standing in the way of their happiness.

Sarah is a mother who lives with a man after separating from her husband but his son is against their relationship. Sarah is forced to choose between her son and her love...

Ayyoob marries a girl who has lost her memory in a car accident with him. The question of girl's true identity gradually affects Ayyoob's life.

In a barren land, a family lives. The three older brothers of the family decide to take over the neighboring land in order to cultivate their own property and make use of the abundant river that flows through that land. Thus, a fierce conflict arises between the two families, and in the meantime, the youngest brother of the family becomes acquainted with the daughter of the owner of the neighboring land and falls in love with her.

Twin brothers with totally different points of view about life have to tolerate eachother. The problem is that they are physically attached to eachother at the shoulder.

On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple's transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go off to find a spare part, the wife, who used to be a teacher, takes over the teaching lessons in the village. It is clear that the children live there, in this strange deserted place, without any men, save the teacher and an old signal guard. As the day draws on, the children help to bring a new hope and life into the wife's heart.

A grieving mother, Narges, receives a mysterious package containing her missing child’s severed ear. Tormented by eerie phone calls and haunting visions within her apartment, she must confront her guilt and the dark reality she’s tried to bury.

A comedy film about surrogacy and the problems that arise for the family in this way so that they can handle their financial problems, but this is just the beginning of the problems.

A social media influencer accidentally kills a politician and gets into trouble.