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Documentary showing the backstage of production of Samira Makhmalbaf's film Panj É Asr(At Five in the Afternoon), in Kabul, after the fall of the Taliban regime. Everything was recorded with a small digital camera by Samira's 14-year-old sister Hana.

Part 8 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.

Synopsis: There are love stories between several humans and non-humans who are constantly in danger. During these situations, he has a critical stance on the state of society. Qif is an abbreviation of Reza Attaran's character name. Anyone who came to earth from a planet called Hyrkani, fell in love and sat at the wedding table, this extraterrestrial being is caught by the enemies of his tribe, the Hyrkani, and is about to become...

White Collar Movie by Shahram Maslakhi is a story about a boy who has been unaware of his father for years, suddenly realizes that his father is a high-ranking official and decides to enter the white collar life...

Asgar and Qader have been friends since childhood. Hussein General, a man of bad character who leads the local teenagers in a fight with the teenagers of Qala Sangi neighborhood, has dedicated his life to their happiness. Asgar and Qader both loved Zainab; but Zainab is married to Asgar. Asgar, who is suspicious of his wife's affairs, constantly annoys Hussein General and Qader. One day, while picking date clusters from a palm tree, while thinking about his wife's relationship with Qader, he falls from the top of the palm tree and loses his sight. Zainab and Qader take care of him; but Asgar's sense of pessimism and suspicion towards his wife and Qader increases. Asgar drags Qader to the palm grove and while he is praying, he cuts him to pieces with a turban and throws his body into the sea. General Hussein, who witnesses the incident, informs Zeinab; but he, unable to allay his wife's insane suspicion, kindly invites the local waterman to his house for lunch.

"Qudrat" returns to his village after many years and decides to marry his beloved girl "Tali". "Tali" tells him about the prison of demons in Takht Soleyman, which "Qudrat" takes as a joke, and even when "Tali" goes missing on his wedding night, "Qudrat" refuses to accept the "prison of demons". Years later, when "Qudrat" has reached old age, he finds a trace of "Tali" and, in search of her, reaches the "prison of demons" in the hills of Takht Soleyman. After a fight with the demons, he frees "Tali" and other acquaintances.

A movie directed by Fereydoun Najafi

A play reading directed by Aida Keykhaiee

Maryam, Morteza's wife, does not have children. Jalal is thinking of acquiring his wealth and to achieve his goal, he introduces a girl named Homa to Jalal. Morteza gradually falls in love with Homa and marries her.

An old hermit lives in a slum and wants to teach the alphabet to the children who regularly go there to play. When a child proposes he use the word “Pelican” for the letter ‘P’, the hermit goes to the nearby park to see this animal he has never heard of.

Majid is a shy and timid young man, and only in his imagination does he see himself as a hero.

One of the Khan's sons notices a girl in the local market and chooses to marry her.

In an unspecified dystopia, a tyrant rules with an iron fist. To maintain control over the people, he employs 'Dasdaran', dangerous, scythe-wielding warriors who obey his orders without question or qualm. But at last the day has come where a hero will rise from the masses to challenge the Dasdaran and free his people from subjugation and slavery. The only problem is that this hero is completely incompetent.

After being fired from his job, Hassan, a young daydreamer ekes out a living making masks of Haji Jabbar, the main character of 'Party in Hell'. Hassan is in love with a rich man's daughter, but when he asks for her hand, the rich man sends him and his friend away in a humiliating way. At night Haji Jabbar's apparition visits Hassan and takes him on an overnight trip to Paris...

Amir Dabirzadeh goes to Ramsar to marry his cousin, Mahboobeh. His Aunt and her daughter have gone on a trip for a few days. Dabirzadeh waits for them. Shahrazad, the singer of Ramsar Casino, is looking for a noble conversation and chooses Dabirzadeh, who is always on the books, for this purpose.

Rahman who is a forest ranger gives his son Ali an injured duck to take care of it and treat it. Little by little an emotional relationship between the boy and the duck formed which leads to some adventures for them.

Two Buddies want to kill themselves...

A young girl informs her father she’s been kidnapped and asks him to bring the ransom money. Panicked, her father and brothers go to Tehran to look for her. They are unaware, however, that the girl has in fact eloped with her boyfriend and now spends her time in the company of a band of street musicians. Following the arrest of the band leader and full of the love for her boyfriend, the young girl descends an uncertain path…

It is late at night and a motor courier, tired of work, wants to deliver pizza to the last customer, who is in his painting studio...

Association of Ideas...

About a family and a boy that during a war between Iran and Iraq stay in their home even when enemy is close.

The war is over and the deportees are back to their homes and each is after his life. A TV-show is trying to meet some old veterans of war. One of them who is very sick should go to hospital but they late and he is near to meet death. This cause his other friends (the deportees) who now are each with a different look to come visit him.

Part 7 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.

Javani meets two sisters working at a coffee shop and ends up falling in love with the elder sister. After a death in Javani's family, Javani takes her to meet her family and receive the estates left behind for him in the will. After a struggle to decide who gets the estates and please his family, Javani marries the sister.

A couple with their two children recently bought a satellite receiver. They try to educate their children with politeness but it is difficult with the arrival of receiver and ill-educated and very funny channels. They change 12 channels and each time they encounter a more malicious and abnormal program.

The Golden Night

It is the hearts that make real countries, not the borders drawn on the maps, the land of earthly love without a map, without a geographical border

The film tells the story of a woman who loves her husband very much, but after a while she learns of her husband's strange behavior, and so on.

Someone’s been murdered and the police is investigating in a stadium, the crime spot. They have arrested the murder suspect and they just try to find out the murdering procedure, however, it is quite complicated and the friends of the murdered person are not to be very collaborative.

Ghazal suffers her parent's recent death. She was in the car when the accident happened. Now her fiance is the only one left for her, but he can't trust Ghazal's mental health.

A young man named Shamsadin (Mehdi Moradi) receives the title of Hafez, bestowed only on those who memorize the Koran, and is sent to teach it to Nabat (Aso), the overseas-raised daughter of a religious leader. Although they never see each other's faces, feelings of love grow between them as they read the holy book. Unable to contain his feelings for Nabat, Hafez breaks his vows as a holy man by composing a poem to her, and is thrown out of her father's house and forced to relinquish his title. Then Nabat is forced to marry another man. Will the two ever be able to meet again?

Students of a guidance school try to stand up against vice-principal's oppressing rules.

"Kavukî Bokan" tells the story of the endangered çirgan (Otis tarda) bird and its struggle for survival, highlighting the destruction of its habitats in Kurdistan and urging the need for conservation.

Vahid seeks his love in the body of a prostitute named Rana

The story of the film is about a boy named Morteza who has a borderline disease and Ibn Ardah will become dependent on one person, that Morteza in our story is in love with his brother Jafar, and Jafar's brother also gets married and the girl asks him to leave his brother. And the story goes back to Morteza's behavior...

Majid (Mohammad Reza Forutan) and Nasim (Mahtab Karamati) seem to be a perfect match but everything doesn't seem to work out as it appears

In the blood is a film in the drama genre directed by Siavash Asadi, produced in 2017. The film was screened at the 37th Fajr Film Festival and was nominated in three categories. Amin Hayaee, who plays the lead role in the home, has also acted in films such as Ms. Yaya and Sholavar. In the summary of the story of this film, it is stated that Zahri will come to make it! If he doesn't ... Reza, after working in Japan for eight years, returns to their neighborhood called Darkhongah ... About the movie The film "In the blood" directed by Siavash Asadi was made in 2017. This film is a product of Iran in the family and social genre. In this film, Amin Hayaee, Jaleh Sameti, Mehraveh Sharifinia, Mahmoud Jafari, Mansour Shahbazi, Fatemeh Morteza, Afshin Sangchap, Jamshid Hashempour, Nader Fallah, Pantea Panahiha have performed.

A spotlight on the great classical singer Mohammad Reza Shajarian whose music reaches 800 years back into Persian history. Between songs, Shajarian talks about his inspiration, explains the meaning of the songs and discusses the poets behind them.

The fight for power in an isolated village. Two families have been enemies for so long they cannot even remember why. The only hope for peace between the feuding families is lost when an arranged marriage agreement is broken. Some days later, the groom, Karamat, returns with a brand new minibus. But a fierce competition for passengers break out when the bride, Mehrbanou, decides to do the same.

An American couple's dream travel to Amsterdam becomes a test of their love and a journey of universal bittersweet favors.

Barakat, a Baluchi teenager, dreams of cinema and the idea of making cinema a reality. His obsession is centred on Bollywood images, which, for him, represent the ultimate expression of his aspirations but also an answer to all sorts of questions he has been asking since childhood.

Middle-aged men and women are planning to go to the nursing home, but they're forced to keep living alongside each other.

Timez is a motorcycle courier who, while delivering a suit to a groom, falls down in an accident and gets the suit dirty. He decides to wash it himself and return it to its owner tomorrow. But in the course of events, the suit gets lost and

The story of Reza's movie is Humble Gold. His job is to bring gold and jewelry from the workshop to the shop. One day she is stealing from her and she must pay compensation. He helps his friend Louie, but Tehran's market fluctuations worsen his situation.

Nima Yooshij (Iranian poet) for his son’s 1st birthday. He says: “my son, by now, you have seen a spring, a summer, an autumn and a winter. From this point on, everything is simply a repetition except kindness.”

This movie is about a group game and there is some new persons in game that will make them pay.

A few years into the married life of Amiali and Shahrzad, they are on the verge of an important decision whit regard to their age and conditions, the decision of treatment and conceiving. Amirali, a musician and an artist, is faced with difficulties at work that makes him droopy , hopeless, discouraged and distrustful about his future and society. Shahzad is an ophthalmologist and a reasonable woman who decides to continue the treatment on her on with the help of their family doctor, Dr.HesamFardmanesh. Agreat gap forms between Sharzad and Amirali which is the source of forced secrecy between them and causes the tragedy.

Reza and Nazi have liquidated their assets into dollars to begin a new life in Canada, leaving Iran behind. On their final night in Iran, they visit Reza's mother, Rana, who is married to Shahrokh, a compulsive gambler. Despite Shahrokh's destructive habit, Rana remains devoted to him, illustrating a form of Stockholm Syndrome. The evening takes a dramatic turn when Farhad, Shahrokh's friend, arrives with the police to arrest Rana over a bounced check issued to settle Shahrokh's poker debt to Farhad. Amidst the chaos, Reza intervenes, pleading with the police not to detain his mother, offering Farhad all the dollars they had saved for their new life. However, a shocking revelation unfolds later: Shahrokh and Farhad orchestrated the entire incident to manipulate Reza into giving them the money. This deceit challenges Reza's trust and exposes the complex dynamics within the family

Aram falls in love with a beautiful dancer Shirin. Due to her dubious profession, Aram and his brother Naser decide to lie about her origins to their mother. Unfortunately, she finds out the truth and forbids Shirin from marrying her son. Aram, believing Shirin has changed her mind and refused to marry him, is angered and marries another woman, Nazanin.

Maryam finds out that her parents are not her biological parents.

A documentary from the point of view of an 75 years old man about the history of Melli bank of Iran and it's first days.

On a road trip to the north the members of the family find a suitcase. They want to open it but the head of the family is not allowing them. This marks the beginning of the adventures for them in the rest of their trip.

Nasi spends months after release from prison, watching the films and memorizes all the lines. He then travels around to perform the films as a one man show on a bench. Gradually he forms a theatre group called Cinema Bench...

Barat is a middle-aged man who lives in a condo with his wife, son, and brother-in-law, and his neighbors. They participated in a lottery and...

Khalil and his sister’s fiancé, Sadegh, are caught by the gendarmes while delivering smuggled goods. They flee and take refuge in the hut of a gypsy girl named Salome. Khalil leaves the follow-up of the deal to Sadegh. However, Sadegh secretly informs the gendarmes by phone about Khalil’s hiding place and then uses the money from selling the smuggled goods to open a café for himself...

This documentary examines the professional and artistic life of Rasoul Sadrameli, a prominent Iranian film director, from the pre-revolutionary era to the present day. One of the main parts of the film is a heartfelt conversation between Rasoul Sadrameli and the late Kiyomars Pourahmad, in which they talk about their cinematic works and their long-standing friendship.