Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

The narrator of the story is a young man named Fouad who comes to Tehran to work. He meets a girl named Ilham at the railway station and...

Karim introduces Abi to a girl named Nasrin, who takes care of his blind son Saeed and sings in Abbas's cafe. Karim warns Abi against continuing his relationship with Nasrin, and upon meeting Nasrin, he realizes that she is the woman he abandoned in Bandar years ago and that Saeed is his own son. The two reconcile, and Abi suspects that Karim has betrayed him. On Abbas's advice, Abi drags Karim to a secluded house to take revenge on him; but Nasrin explains to Abi the story of her and Karim's long-standing love. Abi enters the fray and is stabbed by Abbas.

There are seven stories of seven women. Though each has her own individual story, none had the chance of finding love having lost control of their destiny through either forced marriage or rape.

A different look at the social crimes in the inflamed atmosphere of Iranian society that have targeted the forbidden privacy of Iranian families and ...

A rich and fun-loving young man named Farrokh meets a singer girl named Fereshteh and falls in love with her and it is revealed that there is also a twin girl who looks like her.

A close friend of Homayoon, Bahram, commits suicide and leaves all his belongings to Homayoon's daughter, which makes Bahram suspicios and unvails a hidden romatic relationship.

Roman and Maria, a tourist couple with their own disputes, face a problem in Iran with the tourism institute they have a deal with. Morteza, the fired employee of the hotel where the tourist couple are staying, has plans for them with the help of his cousin, Hossein.

You're waiting,aren't you?

Three men will face strange events after release from jail.

Smalltown confectioner Lespinasse, hopeful of being reelected as chief councillor, is opposed by Darcepoil, the local druggist. Darcepoil arranges for the incumbent's defeat by having Pantaflon, a nightclub singer, lure him to the nudist camp on the Isle of Levant, where Lespinasse is photographed surrounded by half-naked women. At home, he is berated by his wife and thrown out of office; but he returns to Levant with the penitent Pantaflon and is welcomed by the nudists and voted camp president. His forgiving wife follows him and herself becomes a nudist.

A man famous for his toughness cuts himself off from everything after being released from prison. But his past never leaves him alone. His enemies from his past life, the people he has harmed in some way, never leave him alone. His young son Sezercik does everything he can to save his father from these men. He takes on a task that is too big for him.

Documentary about the illegal mourning tradition of head slashing in the Azerbaijan region of northern Iran. In the film, Panahi documented a mourning ceremony for the third Shi'ite Imam, Imam Hossein, where people hit their heads with knives until they bled. Panahi had to shoot in secret and the film was banned for several years.

During Iranian revolution some prisoners manage to escape the prison. In a border village they meet a man Yaqub who wants to convince them not to escape. They first mocking at him not ...

A woman goes back to her birthplace after a long time. However, she's just like a stranger in the family, especially to her son. Now she's fighting to prove her motherhood.

This cinematic film addresses the competitive challenges faced by athletes and has been written jointly by Milad Sadr Amali and Ali Asghari.

Some criminals, led by a professional criminal, go to the forest to find a treasure hidden in a cave.

After murdering his entire family, a man marries a widow with a young daughter in another town and prepares to kill them as well. But this time things go differently for all of them.

The film is a social comedy about a marriage ceremony and its adventures.

The garbage collector, in his solitude, discovers a pot in a trash can that emits a lovely sound. He falls in love with the pot and takes it home. The pot fills the man’s loneliness, but gradually, the very sound that once brought him joy begins to cause him trouble and discomfort. He decides to return the pot to its original place, but ultimately, due to the attachment he has developed, he chooses to keep it by his side.

A man enters from absolute darkness.

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?

Samira, an Afghan village girl, is on her first date in London.

A couple who want to marry, but face the disapproval by the girl's father.

Mahmoud and his wife have a comfortable life; however, there is the problem that Mahmoud's wife cannot have children. Their relatives, including Mahmoud's mother, his brother, and his brother's wife, who has eight children, constantly belittle them. After a while, Mahmoud's mother decides to arrange a marriage for him with the young daughter of an acquaintance. This marks the beginning of the troubles for Mahmoud and his wives.

Jump, Gain, Fall is the story of a person jumping from a high bridge, who was ordered to commit suicide by another person;The story starts from the place where this event does not turn out as it should... The overall story of the film has a psychological and philosophical view of the difficult social issue of "suicide"; A problem that, according to the film, is not an accident and is caused by factors under the human body.

Two brothers are separated from each other for many years. Khosrow is now a police officer but his missing brother Essi is a thief. Essi gets release from the prison but is in need to money for the treatment of his ill son so he participates once again in a rubbery with a gangsters mob. The police brother is involved in the events too. Essi when sees a special mark on

A horse, which was used for religious ceremonies, has grown old and it's been decided to sell it to the slaughterhouse; to be slaughtered The middleman, after hearing the horse's story, refuses to buy it because of his own religious beliefs. The horse breaks away and enters the life of a young depressed drug abuser. The young man's family has broken apart; but ...

After ten years Banafshe and Saeed scape back to Iran but Zapata is after them...

It is a crucial day in the home of the once affluent and respected, but now penniless, Vaziri family: they have to ward off debt collectors, delay foreclosure on their stately house, keep the lid tight on scandalous secrets, and hold on to the reputable image for long enough to honorably receive the long-awaited, moneyed suitor of their only daughter.

Tehran, October, 2000. One year ago, Morvarid lived as a man. Since her operation, she lives her femininity shielded from glances, between the four walls of her apartment. For the first time, she is covered with a chador and gets ready to go out as a woman: we are to follow her metamorphosis. How, in a country as Iran, can one have the will to be a woman?

An old couple decide to bring home their war veteran son from the hospital. Reza (their son) is angry to be home but something comes up to surprise them all.

Two blind jewel thieves, a young man who can’t succeed at killing himself, a love-struck police officer and two female morgue attendants find their lives interconnected when an unusual fish is set free and a charmed ring is moved.

"Every legend needs a hero..." This animated film, centered around the Persian cheetah, tells the thrilling story of the heroic journey of Sepehr and Babu.

24 hours in Tehran. A traffic cop is interested in an actress, two old sourpusses terrorise the drug control lab, not everything a taxi driver says is the truth and a building worker seems to be in love.

The story of an apartment with several floors. When you open the door and enter it, in the third floor there lives Raana, the English translator with her 9 years old girl.

The Iranian police sends a detective to Beirut cooperating the international police to identify head of the dangerous heroin smugglers named "Scorpion" .

Several couples in different age groups in 2020 are looking to define twenty of their lives unaware that they are suffering severely from mental conflicts.

The car of a war refugee who is now living in Tehran is stolen. He with the help of his son begins a desperate search for finding his stolen car. Meanwhile he meets a man who can help him and his son Borna is too after his missing eyeglasses.

Behzad, who has been in prison for manslaughter for a long time, has a son who does not know about him. When he is introduced, the son goes through a conflict. Then, as a family, they go to the victim's family seeking consent so Reza would be released.

To take part in a competition three teenagers are trying to make a drone. Some saying that people saw a cheetah in the plains around their town. The news interferes the activity of the teenagers and engage them in a new story.

A little girl with a blind mother accidentally becomes friends with a rich and famous singer who decides to help her.

The film, which is in sharp monochrome, relates the story of a twenty-four-hour-long journey of two young Iranian soldiers (Issā and Emād) and a civilian driver (Amu Rahim) transporting thirty-eight Iraqi prisoners of war, taken from behind the Iraqi line, to a garrison inside Iran. From the details one is informed that the Iran–Iraq War has entered into its third year. The film masterfully depicts the deep inhumanity of acts of war amongst nations by showing the shared humanity of the combatants on both sides

Mr. Hormoz's house is due to a bank mortgage debt. Financial problems have gripped him and his family and caused them trouble. To the extent that.

A US Pornstar talks about her sexual life story and sexual revolution in 1960 U.S.A.

The story of a young couple who their life changes when an older woman enters in their life.

The film tells the story of a man (Hossein Soleimani) whose wife urgently needs a heart transplant after a serious accident and heart failure. He only has 47 hours and 10 minutes to pay for the heart and save his wife's life.

The story of a married couple who are facing a big challenge about their child.

In Turkmen language, Atlan means "mount a horse and depart". Horse is the most important element in the life of Iranian Turkmen. That's why courses are some of the most significant social events in their land, Turkmen Sahara. Turkmen Sahara is a region in north eastern Iran and is homeland to Iranian Turkmen. Ali is a Turkman with his life, like many of his peers', intertwined with courses. Now his wedding depends on his success in courses. This documentary film is about Iranian horses.

On her wedding night, Rojan, a 14-year-old Kurdish girl who is forced to marry with an old man takes a dangerous decision to set herself free.

Two fugitives in contemporary Iran encounter citizens across the country, all wounded by the same corrupt government and all united in their willingness to help the pair survive.

Akbar, after completing his period of exile, goes to Tehran to attend the wedding ceremony of his brother Habib and Maryam. But when he arrives, he finds that a mourning chamber has been set up for his brother instead.

Young Rashid Khan, son of Arshad Sultan, travels with his loyal servant to visit his uncle, whom he has not seen for many years. On the way, they witness an attempt to murder a horseman. Seriously wounded, Mammad warns Rashid not to go to his uncle's village, where death awaits him...