Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

Azar is studying literature at Jundishapur School of Ahwaz. His sister, Parvin, has been separated from his husband Jamshid and has been drawn to the wrongdoers. Azar leaves her sister, and marries a young student named Homayoun. When Homayoun realizes the relative proportions of Azar and Parvin, his relationship with Azar is cut off

Mozaffar, the self-proclaimed poet and inventor has fallen in love with Goli. Goli has an older, rich suitor waiting for her. Now Mozaffar has to convince Goli that his love for her has more value than all the money and prestige in the world.

In a Kurdish village, a couple collects the remnants of war, breathing new life into these symbols of destruction. Somewhere between fiction and documentary, the deeply moving images and striking soundscape illustrate resilience and humanity....

This movie is the story of two teenagers named Farid and Mithaq, who are neighbors and classmates, but they have problems with each other due to cultural and family differences.

Rumors is a comedy theater film starring Roya Miralami, Ahmad Saatchian, Negar Abedi, Majid Salehi, Javad Ezzati, Saeed Chengizian, Fahima Amanzadeh, Bahram Afshari, written by Neil Simon and directed by Rahman Seifi Azad, produced in 1392 in Iran. Deputy Minister Charlie shot himself in the ear at his wedding anniversary party. Now, in order to preserve their reputation, other guests try to hide this matter from each other and...

Tehran, 1967 - A young man goes to a photography studio to pick up his ID photos, but the ones he is given do not look like him. The time passes at the studio solving the problem leads to the initiation of a romantic relationship with the receptionist. Meantime, in another part of the studio, the renowned Iranian poet and director, Forough Farrokhzad, is being recorded as she is reciting her last poem, a few hours before her tragic death in a car accident.

Horror movie about a writer and his wife that she suffers from a dark mental illness.

A father abandons his young daughter at a playground. Immediately full of remorse, he comes back and finds a child that looks exactly like his daughter but doesn’t recognize him.

Twin brothers live two different lives as they are separated and given to different families after being born.

After his years of study in Germany, Reza thinks that he is more than a lecturer in film at the University of Teheran. He has - although he knows that there is not much hope for the relationship - invited the young student Maryam for the first time

The summary of the story reads: I haven't released this question for a while, why the bullets pass by me and ignore me?!

In this experimental Iranian film, a being who has turned its back on the familiar and ordinary daily life embarks on a quest to find an escape to the beyond. It eventually reaches those who have already attained liberation and joins them. Leaving behind the ruins of its past days, it becomes part of another group of beings from a different world.

A young villager plans to travel to the city to prepare his sister's dowry, but he's worried about the landlord's ill intentions towards his wife. The villager eventually goes to the city, and during an adventure, the landlord's agents repeatedly bother the villager. However, with the cooperation of one of the officers, he manages to get the landlord's agents, who are experienced thieves, caught by the law. Afterward, he and his wife, who came to the city looking for him, return to the village.

It is the story of Qanbar and Sanam, who are struggling with new challenges in their life together in the continuation of the previous episode.

Based on a true story in a border village in Khuzestan they choose the prettiest girl as the bride of the Hoor so she once per week swim in it and the Hoor not becomes angry. But Amin who is a smuggler and is famous as the weasel steals her.

When the resident singer at a venue that hosts weddings and funerals abruptly quits his job, a young, charming new singer (Hamed Behdad) is hired. Unexpectedly, a romantic relationship begins to develop between him and older, widowed woman who also works at the venue, though neither is immediately aware of the other’s emotions. The romance that ensues creates as much chaos as it does tenderness. This is a star-studded and incredibly entertaining ride.

After escaping her former job, Mohtaram tries to find a proper job to live on with all the problems waiting on her way.

The story of this film is about the life of Dr. Jalal Soroush.

Youssef's brothers, who are jealous of their father Yaqoob's love for him, throw him into a well. A caravan saves Yusuf and a few years later, he is sold as a slave in the Egyptian market.

A Green Beret is sent to the Middle East to combat an Arab terrorist.

Murat, the son of a police officer, grows up with the support of Commissioner Kemal after his father's death. Years later, Murat, now a mafia boss, and Kemal's paths cross again. Kemal is constantly conducting operations to put an end to the mafia's activities. The mafia believes that the solution is to kill Kemal. However, Kemal is Murat's childhood friend. This causes a split within the mafia. Murat is forced to protect Kemal from the mafia. Kemal, on the other hand, finds himself torn between doing his job and protecting a criminal.

At a border cafe, a female Iranian cook and an illegal female Afghan immigrant become impossibly intertwined.

Amir kills a young man while robbing his house. Taghi, young man's father who is blind, seeks revenge

Iranian siblings got the ashes of their recently deceased mother from America to Iran to spread them into Lake Urmia.

The story of two friends Sasan and Bahram. Sasan is living in Brazil and Bahram wants to join him too but they face many different challenges and adventures in between.

The film tells the story of three young people, each of whom sets out from Bandar Abbas to Tehran to achieve a goal.

Omid, a teenage athlete who is barred for bureaucratic reasons from a swimming competition; however, as his estranged father has made his consent to a divorce from his mother conditional on Omid's performance in the competition, he begins to train in open-water swimming under the coaching of Mani, with their increasingly close friendship leading to community rumours and allegations they are engaging in a gay sexual relationship with each other.

'Nish' is a noir-esque film brimming with atmosphere - telling the story of a policeman who discovers his family brutally murdered. The mafia are responsible for this monstrous act, ...

Young Hamed, arrested for handing out political tracts banned by the Islamic Republic, finds himself in a place of great suffering, in which illiterate and penniless orphans wash floors and sell their own blood. When a disease breaks out in the prison, his life within this harsh environment becomes progressively worse, a near-daily fight for survival.

This documentary, after years of ignorance of "Fereydoun Goleh", one of the most influential filmmakers in Iranian cinema, talks to him and his colleagues.

Reza and his family attend the wedding of the brother of the mysterious Manouchehr, who returned to Iran after many years abroad to organize a huge wedding party. The first disappointment of the evening comes when the boys discover the space reserved for the children: an enclosed hall at the end of a garden, far from the food and the fireworks and under the surveillance of a weird grumpy man in a Minion costume. Reza and the rest of the children immediately try to escape the boring facility they were confined to, and when they decide to ruin the party at all costs they discover they are interfering with Manouchehr's plans, which are much bigger and more dangerous than theirs.

A young couple accept an arranged marriage to stop the fighting between their respective clans. On the way home from their wedding, they get lost in a dark forest on a stormy night. They take refuge in an eerie mansion, inhabited by an old man obsessed with the past, and his creepy servant. As the night progresses, they learn the terrible secrets hidden in the house. Similar to many other films in this genre, with a few interesting plot turns.

Two people are friends. One of them is naughty and the other tries to choose the right path. The naughty friend hits his head on a rock after meeting a girl and

Amir and Maryam plan to get married, but Maryam’s car crashes into a ravine, and newspapers report her as dead. Maryam’s cousin, Zari, who has feelings for Amir, secretly brings letters that Maryam writes to Amir and tries to get close to him. Maryam returns and discovers that Amir and Zari have developed feelings for each other. However, after learning of Maryam’s survival, Amir marries her, and they become parents to a child shortly after. Zari marries a wealthy man and, with the help of her broker, Bahram, schemes to obtain her husband’s wealth. Zari’s husband dies of a heart attack, and Amir is falsely accused of being the murderer by Zari.

Respected suitor is a 2006 film directed and written by Davood Movaseghi.

An Adopted Movie From Orginal Title 'Lipstick"

A man decides to sell the old family house to move into a modern apartment in the suburbs, and at the same time decides to send his father to a nursing home.

An aging poet is confronted by new technology and age-old family dynamics.

AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing steep financial, cultural and political obstacles are dedicated to their art and culture. Amin travels to remote towns and villages to record the music of the surviving masters whose numbers decline each year. His nomadic family are selling their meager belongings to help support their son's education in performance and ethnomusicology at Tchaikovsky's Conservatory in Kyiv, Ukraine, but it is not enough. Amin, desperate to finish his academic education, sells his violins one at a time just to pay for his tuition.

The eldest son of the family is dead. After the funeral ceremony, the guests have left the house and the family members are talking to each other.

The story of life of Haj Ahmad Abachi who gives the money of his house's rental as Shabash in his niece's wedding night.

Inspired by real events, Waiting for Kiarostami focuses on the life of Dorsa, a medical student at Ningbo University in China, who has to choose between her father’s wish for her to become a doctor, and her own passion to become a singer and an actress. When Hossein Khandan nominates Dorsa to play the leading role in Abbas Kiarostami’s next film slated to shoot in China, Dorsa’s mom, who shares her passion for acting and the arts and is unconditionally on Dorsa’s side, becomes an acting coach to help her through the casting process; whereas her father opposes his daughter’s involvement in anything other than her studies. Dorsa faces some challenges in her quest to find a balance between her true passion and her family life.

A young guy falls in love with a girl and wants to marry her. But the problems prevent him from marrying the girl making her to commit suicide. After many troubles the young guy manages to rescue her and finally they get marry and live together.

Sam and Abd and Omid are three intimate friends. Sam falls in love with sister of Abd Nargess. Then it revealed that Omid is in love with her too. Omid who is jealous goes tell Abd about Sam and Nargess. Abd who is angry goes after Sam and tries to hit him with a knife but instead hits himself and gets killed. Sam is arrested and sentenced to death but on the day of his trial the truth is revealed.

Shirin, a painting student who is living in dormitory, is graduated now. according to her father's insist; she has to go back to her hometown, but that's impossible, because she has a very big problem...

Four people are trapped between white walls and only have a gun with a single bullet  , they’ve been there since forever and  they are afraid that they will lose their minds if they stay any  Longer So they are Searching for a way out .

A steward who has been serving his master for years is wrongly accused of theft, but he escapes before he is caught. After that, he brings his own son into the family instead of the master's son in order to take revenge, thinking that he will strike his master a few years later. Finally, he does the same thing, but he does not succeed.

A Zanjani pilot receives a mission to identify enemy bases at the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war. He gets wounded and his plane is shot. He manages to enter Iran's border and lands at an abandoned airport in Abadan. He successfully lands the plane on the runway that local Basiji forces have cleared for him, but ...

Leila who lives with her uncle in Amman, meets a boy named Kamal Hamdy who works in a pharmacy. One day, Kamal saves Leila's uncle from drowning in swimming pool. Some time later, Leila's uncle dies and gives his wealth to Kamal, but Raouf, Leila's cousin, who considers himself the heir, plans to kill Kamal by hiring two people.

Tehran's untold sociopolitical history through rare, unseen film archives spanning over a century.

Setareh Asadi (Niki Karimi) is a young girl, who has gone to the house of a Qajar's Prince (Saeed Poursamimi) to be hired for nursing the prince's physically disabled son.... and this is the gate of what the story wants to tell about the society!

The movie is the story of a gang of men who decide to participate in Iran-Iraq war, also known as First Gulf War, which lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. the main character, Suzuki, who is there to satisfy his beloved's father that he is worthy of marrying his daughter, goes through some moving experiences in the war and his character changes to a level that he even tries to sacrifice himself to save the others in the war. the Movie ends by his martyrdom.

Hamid Nokhodchi who claims having received a PhD in cinema comes back to Iran, but he fails to launch a successful film career. He meet a girl called Manijeh and they pledge to get married. While Hamid is on a trip to shoot a film, Manikeh notices some changes in her feeling. Visiting a doctor, she is advised to undergo a sex change surgery...

A theater directed by Farhad Aieesh

Rana (Elementary Teacher) and Amir (Worker's Crystal Workshop) have started their love life in the old neighborhood, on the margin of the city, unlike that the insane snap is marked to their simple happiness.