Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

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.

A man has four children, one of which is not his real child. There is a rivalry between this adopted child and one of the man's real sons. As a final blow, the real son shares the fact that his identity is fake with the adopted brother. The boy followed the matter and found his dying mother and through her he finally found his real father before he passed away.

In Aysh-abad village is 20 years that nobody has died. Because water is scarce all the people of the village are musicians. Adam is living there and all of this is because of him. One day a woman comes to the village to meet him.

The story focused on a group of farmers who decide to stand up to their tyrannical landlord by rolling a gigantic stone from the top of a mountain with the intention of smashing his exploitative mills and production facilities to smithereens.

Years ago, Bahram lost his wife, Nasrin, during childbirth and now lives with his daughter, Nasrin, and his mother, Zahra.

A family is faced with many problems and uses methods to solve them that have no clear outcome.

A documentary about Kiumars Pourahmad (Persian: کیومرث پوراحمد) (16 December 1949 – 5 April 2023). Pourahmad was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, film editor, and film producer.

Keyvan Has Been Sentenced 25 years In Jail. He is released on condition after 10 but...

Forough is a wealthy woman who owns several restaurants and her economic class makes her marry a man who is ten years younger than her. When Forough's niece enters the story, that changes...

Ali, saddened, goes to meet his friend Iraj, but is killed by a welding gas cylinder explosion.

There is a boy named Hamid who works in a big company, but many problems arise for him, which changes his life and

A young man's car crashes into a stray dog ​​on a side road, causing the night patrol to become suspicious and search the car. Something is found in the trunk of the car that changes the fate of several people...

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.

Forough Kia is a film-maker who got divorced from her husband many years ago and now is living with her son Maani. She decides to make a documentary about perfect mothers. In order to do so she meets many mothers to chose the perfect mother among them. She finally decides to quit making this film because of tiredness but doctor Rahbar wants her to continue. Maani is teasing her every day preventing her from marrying doctor Rahbar but she finally decides that she wants to marry him.

Parisa film focuses on one of the problems of society and youth and the problems of social networks and acid spraying.

The film and camera of Maysam Mkhamlbaf, Samira's brother follows her like an invisible eye. From her first subconscious presence as an actor, when she was one months old and crying in her mothers arms, while acting in a feature movie made by his father up to her first conscious appearance as an 8 year old child actor in the movie Cyclist made by his father in Pakistan. From when Samira made her first movie Apple at 17 or when she goes to visit the two imprisoned girls in the movie "Apple" and when she is occupied with changing the professional actor of the movie "Blackboard" with a non-professional actor (ordinary people) and even when she was attending the Cannes Film Festival in the years 1998 and 2000.

Two sisters: Kimia and Kamelia get confused due to the cold atmosphere around them. Girls like to spend summer holidays on the beach in Antalya. Both of them win a trip to Mecca in the bank lottery. Kimia is not willing to make this pilgrimage, but when she goes to the house of God with her family, she is fascinated by the spiritual feeling there.

A new romantic comedy by Adel Tabrizi

Maziar (Iraj Ghaderi) and Parviz (Bahman Mofid) are two half-brothers who have grown up under the care of Afkham al-Dowleh (Iran Ghaderi). Maziar is engaged to Maryam (Puri Benai); but an earthquake strikes Qazvin, the girl's hometown, and she is displaced.

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.

In 1916, Colonel Kit comes to Balochestan with excuse of creating telegraph lines. Eydokhan, unaware of his plans, welcomes him, but G. Ant and Molla Ali who are aware of his deception began to fight him.

The Samurai Movie in Berlin is a comedy film about the life of three samurai lovers in Iran. They have to travel to Germany for a contract with a smuggling gang and…

Two old writers who one of them is returned to Iran after 38 years because of his son's suicide, are going on a trip to the grave of that son.

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 dog crashes into a car while crossing the road, and the driver continues on his way regardless of the injured dog, until a car stops to help the dog. But he helps the dog in a special way.

A young woman goes on a long journey to find her beloved in the Kurdish region of Iran

Its a experimental documentary about three of friends whose listening to some musics in a car.

The stories of the two couples who sign up for marriage narrate, but the bustle of the nobles turns into an unexpected event and ultimately binds the lives of two couples!

A young woman recalls early memories of moving in with her then-flatmate while moving out of her house.

Part 5 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.

Farzaneh Mashreghi is a famous movie star. In her recent movie, she is supposed to play the role of an addict woman, whose job is drug dealing in retail. To play the role, her makeup has rendered her unrecognizable. The first filming location is a park in one of the southern districts. And to avoid people’s gathering, the director, Ms. Moshtagh suggests placing the camera in an unnoticeable spot and controlling the scene afar. In this scene, a player who has the role of an addict woman will come to Mashreghi. After exchanging some dialogues, they are supposed to go to a house which is a resting place for the filming crew ...

Roum was conquered by European invaders, and its pregnant Banu (lady) forced to flee for her life. She becomes wedded to an Egyptian merchant and gives birth to her child, Arsalan. The merchant claims the child as his own. Eventually, of course, Arsalan learns of his royal origins and takes it in his mind to reclaim his throne.

Documentary about Film magazine. Film (Persian: فیلم) is an Iranian film review magazine published for more than 40 years (founded in 1982).

In modern day Iran, a female attorney fights for the custody of her seven year old diabetic son following a divorce from her husband. When the courts rule against her, she takes desperate actions that lead to tragic events.

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…

Family videos are odd objects. You can sit around all together and for a few hours relive your life. Family videos are valuable. The older the videos are, the more valuable they become for us. Especially for those of us who have had complicated lives.

Sarah and Soodeh, sisters who lost their parents in the earthquake, have a good life in a hut in the northern mountains. Sarah brings a young man named Parsa who has lost his way to the hut and ...

When a man met a dancer he became enamored of her and married her. After that the dancer stopped working and took up housekeeping. The dancer had a daughter who would occasionally meet her without telling the man she existed. These secret meetings made the man suspicious and the cabaret owner, who had suffered a loss when the dancing stopped, exacerbated the suspicions

A mother helps an elderly woman in a shopping mall in Tehran. A tragedy occurs, brutally confronting her with the impact of her actions.

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.

Morteza is a thief familiar with a young man known as Behrooz, who came to the capital to study.

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.

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 man kills his brother named Salar to get his wealth. Salar’s little child, left without a guardian, goes missing. Years later, Salar’s cousin Sohrab and his friends plan to take over Salar’s property. Sohrab is imprisoned by Masoud, who owes him, and…

Mehran and Mina are a happy couple but face a problem when Mina is absorbed toward a terrorist group Monafeghin. Mehran who is a reporter becomes suspicious of her when a chemical bomb is dropped over the place in which she is studying.

Maryam is an involuntary immigrant in the US, who after forty years has not forgotten her escape from Iran’s border wrapped in a sheep’s skin. Maryam is always worried about her elderly parents and in constant visual connection with the home in Iran from thousands of kilometers through surveillance cameras. These cameras take her to the days of the 1979 revolution. Today, Iran is again experiencing turbulent days and now Maryam encounters her revolutionary past and revolutionary girls who are challenging the present system.

A narrative of the Iranian national team's victory over the Israeli national team in the Asian Cup.

An 8-year-old girl named Sayeh goes on an adventure in search of the dragon's treasure to save her grandmother's village from drought. But she doesn't know that the real treasure is water and she must fill up all the aqueducts.

Accidentally, a poor couple and a rich one meet each other. These young couple have some difficulties.

Tells the story of seven Iranian transgender individuals living in Tehran who live pieces of their own lives on the screen.

The discovery of a rare turquoise brings the life of Yunus, who is the owner of the mine, trusted and big of the city, into a dangerous path.

Documentary about the 2002 murder of Iranian football star Nasser Mohammad Khani's wife, the subsequent confession to the crime by his mistress Shahla and her fight to escape the death sentence. (Storyville)

Golnar lives with her grandparents. One day she goes to the fountain to fetch water. The wind carries away her blue handkerchief. Golnar follows it into the forest and loses her way...

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.

The story of a rich powerful man who an accident cause his life to change forever.

"Mozhdeh" and "Amir" go to their friend's house for robbery when she is not in town.

The life of a couple who are living together for 7 years is challenged by appearance of an stranger. Sahar thinks that her husband is cheating on him.