Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

Tad, a foolish and stubborn adventurer, seeks for a disappeared cute dog and finds a mysterious basement where a terrible secret is hidden.

Takes place in the early 2000s, during a period when the country's political situation is heavily influenced by the US military attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq. Despite the years that have passed since the end of the war, the shadow of fear and terror has once again reminded people of the dark days of the past. The plot revolves around New Year's Eve in a not-so-wealthy family living in Abadan. The father of the family is an addict and is desperate for drugs, which has disrupted the household atmosphere. However, the sudden occurrence of a catastrophic event changes everything, and the family realizes that in the short distance between life and death, they need each other more than ever.

An unknown woman disturbs the marriage of a cinema superstar.

A truck is moving from the south to Tehran. On the way, during an accident, a fugitive passenger secretly gets into the truck...

A girl falls in love with a fish.

Maryam has Down syndrome and lives and learns in a different way than her 14 siblings. In her world, there are goats, dogs, snakes, and sometimes a wolf or leopard. Her father teaches her how to find valuable stones. While her siblings gradually move to the city, Maryam remains with her parents in the mountains of southern Iran. For 14 years, Gharibzadeh has chronicled the girl’s coming of age.

Forough is a middle aged woman whose husband has temporarily married with another woman. Even though that was kept secret from her, but his action is considered legal in Iran. Now the husband is in prison, due to not being able to pay second wife’s “Mehrieh” (the bride’s marriage portion).The second wife intends to receive her Mehrieh by asking the court’s permission to sell his house. Forough, the first wife, in order to not lose her home, intends to sell all she has to pay for her husband’s debt and release him from the jail.

Amin is a young journalist who goes to jail because of something that he wrote, his friends want to free him, but they can't so they decided to make money by throwing parties at his sister's house, but everything gets worse.

Mashallah Iranmanesh is coming to Tehran from his city Kerman to sell apartment no. 13 which he has inherited. With its money he wants to marry the girl he is in love with and also buy a work shop so he can work in it. But because of the bad neighbors and their problems things are not going as he desires to.

Two youngsters Bahman and Nader who must go to the military service and are searching for a way to escape from that meet each other and become friends. This friendship is the beginning of many troubles and adventures for them.

In the suffocating heat of a remote salt mine, six elderly women work seasonally, their hands and faces weathered by years of labour, their resolve unshaken.

When a girl sees her father as sick, goes to the pharmacy to get medicine. The pharmacist gives the girl poisonous medicine, and when she realizes her mistake.

Mr. Mehdi and his two assistants, Hassan and Esmaeel, have a traditional food shop. Mehdi sees a girl named Hayedeh in his shop who bears a strong resemblance to his fiancée, Zari...

Saeed is a middle-aged man who lives a quiet life with his daughter, until a woman enters their life...

A man is accused of murder due to a conspiracy and is imprisoned. After a while, he is released on bail and begins to investigate...

Two kids meet at a film festival; an Afghan living in Iran, the other a Londoner. Initially they are at odds due to cultural differences, but when Danny the Brit stumbles upon some smugglers and is held captive, Ali goes to his rescue.

- Whose wedding is there? +My sister. - Are you kidding me? Why didn't you participate in your sister's wedding? +Because they didn't invite me. - You're full of it. We go to the police station.

A woman suffers complications after having sex. Her partner takes her to the hospital, but getting help proves to be difficult.

A leaked video and the disappearance of an actress. A filmmaker looks for the truth in this tense suspenseful Iranian film by 28-year-old Mahdi Asghari Azghadi, a debut director.

Oil wells in the south are the prey of fire, and American experts call fire extinguishers to the south. They need some nitroglycerin to put out the fire, which must be transported south. A number of drivers are being tested to bring two trucks carrying nitroglycerin to the fire station.

1934. A barber is suffering from high prices and his difficult situation. He has eleven children, and his pregnant wife gives birth to twins. The man, who believes in the bad luck of the number thirteen, leaves one of the twins in the car of a young couple, unaware that his thirteenth child has remained with him. The young couple adopts the baby and takes it to Abadan.

Convicted of murdering her husband, Tahereh served her sentence and now faces a ticking clock to negotiate with her in-laws who, under Sharia law, have the legal right to either execute her or forgive her- for a price.

After a man named Buick is killed during a fight at a gas station, Buick's daughter Inji seeks revenge on the killer in order not to let her father's blood be trampled on. But the intervention of the killer's family to change the course of the case causes events to happen and...

An artist's life who lives in a village of Kurdistan,Iran has been changed because his nephew enters to the village.

A man, who has some kind of a disease and eats a lot, enters a poor and large family to marry their mother.

With entering a psycho sister of a young couple who are expecting a baby, their life faces to a crisis.

People are praying for rainfall... a Land parched in drought... the illusion of snow... Rozhin is engulfed in reveries of flight from an undesirable marriage... Rozhin seeks support from a stranger... and this is not the end of the story.

Hossein the fabric seller, before dying, bequeaths to Mr. Kamal, a pious and ascetic man, to accept the guardianship of his daughter Golrokh. Mr. Kamal takes the girl to his home. Gradually, both Mr. Kamal and his young son become fond of Golrokh.

Amin, a 4-year-old boy, the only child in the family, asks his parents to play with him at home and bring him out of the loneliness by bringing the baby to the family.

Hot Perfume Movie is the story of a girl named Mary who is forced to stay out of the night. Staying out has a series of events for her and her family that…

All birds in the sky in human wars.

Zhaleh and his brother Esmaeel are tenants in a house. On the one hand, Jamshid , the local butcher, and on the other hand, the eye-catching man and a young student named Hasan prepare themselves to propose to Zhaleh. Esmaeel is in debt and the eye-catching man saves him from the creditors and promises to pay his debt on the condition of marrying Zhaleh ...

During the Iran-Iraq war, Reza's wife gives birth, and dies soon afterward. Reza is taken as POW. Shokooh finds Reza's baby and raises her as her own. Many years later, Reza find's his daughter again...

It's Hasti’s birthday. She studies abroad and her parents in Iran want to congratulate her via Skype.

A devoted portrait photographer Murat and flower-selling entertainer Zeynep, who frequently clash yet deeply love each other while working at the same nightclub, find their relationship upended after Zeynep saves mafia boss Bekir from a violent attack and is injured in the process. As Bekir nurses her back to health, he falls for her, forcing Zeynep to choose between the two lovers.

Ebram travels to Paris with the father of the girl he's considering for his brother's wife. In Paris, Ebram finds out that he intends to marry a Parisian girl. Ebram tries to dissuade him, but he himself falls for a Parisian girl named Nicole. Despite Nicole's beauty and good qualities, Ebram feels she clashes with his beliefs and traditions. Although he's deeply in love with her, he decides to return to Iran and marry the girl chosen for his brother himself.

One Person on the street does not vertigo when suddenly something happens to him

Two women take a dying man on a road trip in search of a miracle.

Kamal and his friends Ezzatollah and Bagher are involved in smuggling. They work for Mehdi Jabbar and decide to turn to an honorable profession. One of Kamal's friends named Kazem-Baba is killed by the gendarmes while transporting a smuggled shipment. Before his death, he asks Kamal to take care of his son Amir. Mehdi spreads rumors that Kazem was killed due to Kamal's conspiracy and that he intends to seize Kazem's ship.

A movie directed by Ali Ghaffari

A young guy leaves his pregnant girlfriend and goes to Europe to study. The disappointed girl try to commit suicide but at last moments is saved by the brother of that guy. He marries her ...

Gita' juxtaposes the ups and downs experienced by a couple (Gita and Amir) whose routine life is faced with despair due to their son's trip abroad. The lead role Gita encounters serious challenges and her life is accompanied with unexpected events.

The film is about an imaginative and lively student who transforms her immediate family and surroundings when she talks herself into writing a novel.

The film recounts the life of the prisoners and the problems their families encounter in their struggle to survive. Here again filmmaker Kamran Shirdel employs the cinema verité style. The interviews with the prisoners, social workers and teachers serve as commentaries for "constructed" documentary images.

Captain Reza Shemirani and his team have recently been involved in an unusual robbery. They track down a woman who leads them to Amir Delavari, a skilled thief with a history of special, cleverly designed robberies, and now, after a while, he has become a hero again...

Five characters are stuck on an island, from where they hope to escape to "somewhere else", the utopia of their dreams. Dr. Tavussi (Ahmad Najafi) offers to help them illegally cross the ...

Three hidden agents come to Iran undercover for a secret mission but from the first moment that they arrive to Tehran face many funny different situations that challenge their mission.

A man is trying to kill himself in a hotel room, suddenly someone knocks on the door and enters...

An isolated and lonely old man in the mountains tries to save Sohrab’s, his son, life. But, despite of all his efforts, he cannot change the son’s death sentence and Sohrab is executed. So he takes the body of his son through the mountain and rivers, baptizing him. Meanwhile, the old man also should take care of his grandson.

It's A Story About Life Of Crime...

"Death is My Profession" is about the struggle of people who have to accept any work offered to survive in a neglected society.

Amir and Sara are a young couple on their way to Melbourne to continue their studies. However, just a few hours before the departure of their flight, they are unintentionally involved in a tragic event.

Part 13 of the 14-part documentary series which discovers cultural roots and aesthetics of modern Iranian films and the relationship between different Persian art forms and Iranian Cinema.