Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

the film refers to a famous criminal case of the 90s. The case of the murder of Ghazaleh Shakur by Arman Abdul Ali, which went back and forth several times until the execution stage...

An Iranian worker who does not have a psychological balance is involved with an Afghan worker. Following this conflict, an Iranian worker faces a heavy fine and is in a dangerous situation.

A group of youngsters are going to a villa in north of Tehran. But there their troubles little by little begin to appear.

Nowruz is coming, but the devil is lurking to destroy Nowruz and spring. Uncle Nowruz has an accident on the way to Grandma Frost's hut and searching for Hajji Firuz and a big storm starts.

A Documentary about the New Wave movement in Iranian cinema.

In the beginning of the World War I, Iran’s government decides to remain neutral in order to save the country from further damage. But the countries in war, especially the allied powers (Russia and Britain) and the axis powers (Germany and the Ottoman Empire) ignore Iran’s stance and turn the country into their political and military battlefield. In this situation the young Ahmad Shah Qajar, Iran’s king, feels helpless facing these highly experienced foreign politicians. The young king remembers nothing from his childhood or teen years, and during one of the toughest historical points of Iran when the Russians and the British politicians interfere with most of Iran’s internal affairs to the point of affecting Iranian people’s personal lives, he meets Konts de Gotti, the daughter of Austria’s prime minister in Iran ...

Naiq Khan's agents have thrown a man named Abbas Ali (Sami Shihani), who did not pay back his rented home. Amir (Reza Beik Imanardi), son of the vice, takes Abbasali. Abbasali was arrested as a result of Naiyib Khan's complaint, and his daughter (Fariba Forouhar), who is ill, suffered a heart attack.

a man in black clothes brings another man in white clothes to a deserted area and the man in white has to convince the man in black to not murder him.

A young engineer and his wife are affected by an odd incident one night on the road.

A mother of a poor family, has guests coming over, yet doesn't know how to get the dinner party altogether with limited resources.

In a bus travelling to Mashhad few people and a prisoner are together. But when the prisoner manage to escape and hold them hostages they all trapped in the middle of a desert and must try to save their life.

Hadith is a member of the high school swimming team and has come to Tehran to attend a national tournament. The night at the dormitory, the team leader called on the disciplinary committee, and it turns out that the hadith movie has been broadcast through Bluetooth when changing clothes in a dressing room, something that will change the fate of this girl forever.

Couples after twelve years of life have now come to some sort of homogeneity in life.

This film is a happy and entertaining program that is performed in the presence of Iranian cinema and music greats to bring happy moments to the viewers.

After getting caught in a fight, Vahid needs to sell one of his kidneys to avoid a prison sentence of many years. While waiting for the liberating call from a buyer, a wish for a better life starts to grow within him.

Dr. Alam, a prolific neurologist and a successful surgeon has drowned himself in his professional and social work in a way that has caused his estrangement from his son. On the night of his son's birthday a shocking fact about his son's health is revealed to him so he tries to track him down.

Hojjat and Mehdi have a long friendship and Qasim is a mutual friend of both of them. Mehdi is engaged to Qasim's sister. After Hojjat decides to propose to Masoumeh, Qasim's neighbor, events happen that affect the friendship of the three of them.

Aban a tough, self-sufficient person, and the only woman contractor in the orange fields of northern Iran, beats out the male competitors for a big job. She becomes responsible for peaking oranges on a farm. The operation seems to get off to a rocky start but Aban won't let go without a fight. So, she asks women in the northern regions who are seasonal workers to help her.

The story of a mysterious boy who loved his cat better than his girl.

An extreme comedy film is the story of a couple of inmates who find themselves in prison together, and after their release from prison, each of them gets involved in something special and interesting.

Bahman (Parviz Parastui) returns from Europe to put his late father's house in order. The maid, Pari (Mahtab Nasirpour), hired by Bahman's cousin, arrives to help him out. Hired against his will, he finds her intrusion annoying. When Pari needs his help, the isolated Bahman must decide whether to get involved. Pari’s life is complicated and her friendship with the young, unruly Samaneh, may be her downfall. Soheila Golestani's directorial debut is a beautifully shot and thought-provoking triumph.

Siavash has a peaceful and simple life with his wife Shaghayegh and his daughter Tootia. Shaghayegh who is an architect, decides to become the CEO of a company which all the members are her female friends. Siavash who is writing his PhD dissertation in psychology, goes through some troubles with his wife because Shaghayegh has devoted most of her time to the company and pays no attention to him and Tootia ...

A young man leaves his birthplace, Isfahan, to come to capital city ,Tehran, to forgot his childhood memories. He is the storyteller and he tarts revealing his dreams which have been started a few months after the death of his father. In these dreams father persuades him to go to the Gav Khuni Swamp

Parvin meets a young man named Jalal Agha-Balakhan on the street and takes him to his friend Azar's birthday party. Jalal, who is a mechanic, introduces himself as a engineer Omidvar. Parvin also pretends that his father is a police colonel. Azar is also interested in Jalal; But soon Bahram, Azar's friend, seeing Jalal in the mechanical workshop, doubts Jalal's job and social status and discusses the matter with Azar and Parvin.

Iran's national women’s futsal team makes the Asian Games final in Malaysia. But at the airport on departure day, the team captain finds her husband hasn’t signed the document to permit her exit from the country.

Documentary about Iranian actor Jamshid Mashayekhi (Persian: جمشید مشایخی, November 26, 1934 – April 2, 2019).

Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.

Three young bachelors each have problems. One is thinking about immigration, one is looking for marriage, and one is looking for housing.

his movie follows a boy who lives with his mother in a village. The boy has lost his father and needs to travel to Tehran with his soon to be stepfather.

A social portrait of two young lovers that reflects the larger prejudices of society.

Ahoo and Saman are a young couple who decide to go to Turkey for their wedding ceremony, but along the way, after Ahoo's pessimism towards his husband, they have an accident.

Amin Salar, who thinks he lost his wife Maryam and his two sons Ramin and Ahmad in the earthquake, takes the orphaned girl with him to another city and raises her. Taghi James Bond finds Maryam and Ramin and takes care of them, but...

A young peasant named Shirzad worked as an estate manager. The owner of the estate arrived here for the summer with his son Irdaz and daughter Zohra. Irdaz took a liking to the manager's sister Golnaz, and Shirzad to Zohra. Soon, a deep feeling of true love bound the two couples together. The landowner offered Shirzad a large ransom for his sister. But the young man refused—it is not customary among the people to give girls away for money, but rather to exchange them. Shirzad asked for Zohra's hand in marriage. The landowner agreed, but on the condition that Shirzad spend 25,000 tumans on his wedding. But where could a poor man get such a sum?

A young university professor, who leads a quiet and reclusive life and fills his life with reading and teaching literature, meet a young girl who has altered the course of her life for the sake of a man she loves. She has promised to meet her beloved at a certain spot on four consecutive nights exactly one year after their last meeting. The young professor's encounter with the young and passionate girl during four nights brings about significant changes in both of their lives and beliefs. Now concepts like love, literature and expection have a new meaning for them.

An epistolary feature film: a cinematic discourse between a British director Mark Cousins, and an Iranian actress and director Mania Akbari which extends the concept of "essay film" with startling confrontations in the arenas of cultural issues, gender politics and differing artistic sensibilities. A unique journey into the minds of two exceptional filmmakers which becomes a love affair on film.

Mehdi in Black falls in love with a foreign girl who loves him back. However, in order for them to get married, Mehdi has to fulfill his father's will and marry off her sisters first.

The film "Bam Bala" is the story of siblings named Hina and Amir Ali, who seek help from a doll named Bam Bala to reconcile their parents. Bam Bala is a doll that helps all children achieve their dreams. In a part of the film, all the adults in the city are turned into statues by his hand so that the children can do whatever they want happily and regardless of their concerns.

Cinematic magical realism meets hard-edged drama in Ida Panahandeh’s stunning look at the life of Titi, an Iranian Roma Gypsy who earns pennies cleaning hospitals, becomes a surrogate mother… and saves the world from a rogue black hole.

Khanom Bozorg wants to give her necklace to her grand daughter Reihan but her son and her expelled daughter Nimtaj are after it. They send two thieves to steal it from Reihan.

A trio of misfits - a hoodlum, a master of disguise, and a thief join forces to perform one of the biggest and most daring heists of their lives. The place? One of the most important hotels...

When the Tehran rain rocket launches from the winter of 1366, members of the crowded family, almost all of whom are violent and dissent, to prevent hostile attacks by their mothers living in the villages in the outskirts of Tehran. A village whose main source has become a place of residence for warlords. Establishing this family in the garden and its neighbors to the peoples living in the climax, makes families understand families and understand them about each other's problems and the roots of their differences. They find out during the adventures that they are capable of helping each other and ... But the central core and the role of the story of an adolescent called Amir is that many things are happening to him and different stories that the other members of each other in parallel to the story before win ...

Bahram Farzaneh is a writer who has long been unable to write a story. Suddenly, due to a car accident, a song is repeated in his mind that brings him to dance. The same thing stirred up the passion for writing.

The story narrates the story of the life of a nursing woman who lives with her child in special circumstances, and she experiences adventures due to events and mistakes.

Gorbachev believed that it was impossible to achieve a successful economy until the tensions of the Soviet Union continued with the Western countries, and especially the US, so that their high priority was to tame down, establish relations and negotiate with the Americans.

Documentary filmmaker Morteza Hosseini fell into a coma in 2008 on a remote road and his wife, Maryam Sharifi, disappeared. He and his friend Majid Shokri and Yaser Jafari were making a documentary about the transcendental forces, as if Morteza's departure was the beginning of something more sinister

A man and his two children are late for their flight. While they wait for the next flight something happens that changes his point of view about being a father.

Piano teacher Roya (Mahnaz Afshar) realizes that her marriage to Ali is in a deadlock when she discovers some of her husband's secrets. In the meantime she meets a young musician (Saber Abar) and has to make a painful choice.

Rona and Hamed are two young Afghans who are in love with each other. Searching for a better life, they have decided to immigrate to Europe but they have to make a big decision to make it happen, a decision that relates to their religion and beliefs.

The story of two friends, Majid and Hamed who involves in a police case.

Iranian comedy film

Babak is more than just an unemployed engineer living with his parents in his 20s. He possesses a supernatural sense of hearing, so strong he can hear through solid walls and over great distances. But Babak is not the only one with bizarre, unexplained powers. A group of extraordinary individuals begin to emerge and find each other. Will they learn to use their powers for anything other than their own selfish means? With experimental sequences and innovative camerawork, director Iraj Karimi takes a whimsical look at a band of youths brought together through their abilities, but bound by their lack of purpose.

Hojjat is a gendarme, and his brother Mansour is a smuggler. Mansour is sent to prison, and after his release he promises Hojjat that he will no longer engage in illegal activities. Mansour meets a prostitute named Mahboubeh and intends to marry her. A smuggler named Khalaf and his brothers plan to eliminate Hojjat from their path...

A woman accompanies her husband for an audition. The thing that happens there leads her for an important decision...

Two street men seek the city to rescue the city

An Iranian restaurant owner meets a beautiful lady who is the only child of a wealthy man, and they develop feelings for each other. He introduces her to his handsome best friend, Nima. ...