Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

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

The story happens in Nader Shah era when he attacked India. At the very moment of the war in India and conquering Lahore, there is a romantic love going on between a girl and boy named Homa and Homayoun, which the war directly affects.

A young man is badly injured in a football stadium. His older brother does anything, even risks his life, to earn enough money for the operation.

Persian (Iranian) Movie

A young couple who live in an old house, notice a car outside, that keeps parking in front of their property and suspiciously stares at it..

Mahia and Reza are a young couple shortly planning to marry. Reza is an architectural engineer and Mahia is his student. An accident in the neighbourhood takes place that changes the course of both their lives.

A shocking portrait of the world of a recently captured serial killer, who sees his killing of prostitutes as in accordance with Islamic teaching. Over the space of a year, 16 women were murdered in the Iranian city of Mashad. Because the victims were lured into the killer's traps, the press soon called these the "spider killings." All but one of the victims had previously been arrested for prostitution and drug-related crimes. When a 39-year-old contractor is arrested and confesses to the crimes, he claims divine support for his crimes. His mother, wife, son, and many neighbors agree. AND ALONG CAME A SPIDER visits with the families of the victims, with the perpetrator and his family, and with prostitutes in this holy city. Most chillingly, the killer's son proudly re-enacts a murder, and suggests that he wants to grow up to be like his father. This is a chilling film about cycles of moral vengeance.

Ghesse Haye Kish was originally produced as a six-episode omnibus film with finances from investors on the Island of Kish in the Persian Gulf, which is a free zone belonging to Iran. All episodes take place on the abandoned island, which had profited from the passing ships between Asia and Europe in ancient times, and they are all about solitude.These three episodes were shown in competition at the 52nd Cannes Film Festival in 1999.

A theater directed by Hassan Majooni

A story about a boy named Ahura and his mysterious past, which when his friends enter, that buried past comes back and creates terrible events.

A documentary about Bahram Beyzai (Persian: بهرام بیضایی; born 26 December 1938). He is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and ostād ("master") of Persian letters, arts, and Iranian studies.

The story of an addicted woman Mahsa who thinks that her girl is dead but when finds out that she is alive and lives by her father (Mahsa's ex-husband) decides to take her back. This put her to face her ex-husband and his new wife.

- 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.

Sarah and Mehri, two friends, set themselves a perilous challenge in high school. But not only are they very young women, they're also Iranians from families with completely opposing views.

Taleh is about the first night of a young couple who breaks up on the phone of an unknown person.

Hojjat and Mehdi have a long friendship and Qasim is a mutual friend of both of them. Mehdi is engaged to Qasim's sister. After Hojjat decides to propose to Masoumeh, Qasim's neighbor, events happen that affect the friendship of the three of them.

nspired by his recent trip to the USA, a filmmaker (played by Dariush Farhang) dreams of making an action film in modern Iran. Having little experience to draw on, he finds that the task is much more daunting that he had first imagined. As he faces setback after setback, he wonders if he will ever complete his project. An interesting look into the complexities of filmmaking.

Gol Muhammad is a young teacher who is in love with a girl named Siah Moo, but he can’t afford the bride token in order to marry her. He asks her to wait for him and goes to Pakistan to earn the money. However, he is arrested because of his objection to Taliban’s policies about expelling girls from schools. When people hear no news from him, they believe that he is dead until ...

Dash Habib who lives with his sick mother alone is a thief who helps the poor all the time. One night he saves a rich girl Setareh from some scoundrels. But this is only the beginning of the troubles and romance for Habib.

A man in the park tells the story of his friend, who worked in the cinema industry, to a young girl. The young girl who is part of the cast filming on the other side of the park ends up knowing the identity of the man.

In a land torn by tradition and tyranny, young lovers Hasiba and Hafiz risk everything to escape. But freedom comes at a cost. When Hasiba is captured by extremists and forced into a brutal world ruled by men, her fight for survival takes a dark turn. With secrets, betrayal and forbidden love unravelling around her, she must choose between silence - and death - or risking everything to reclaim her voice.

Two brothers, Yargholi and Yazdan Gholi Hassanabadi, lose their family due to an earthquake. In this film, Fardin appeared in a negative role.

A theater directed by Mohammad Rahmanian

An extraterrestrial recently landed on earth befriends a local taxi driver. Through a series of wacky adventures and hi-jinks, the alien begins to learn all about his galactic neighbors on Earth. Zany sci-fi comedy starring Alireza Khamse.

Two young Afghans, Fereshteh and Nabi, are in love, but Fereshteh has to follow her parents and leave Afghanistan to find refuge in Iran. Nabi decides to illegally cross the border, find Fereshteh and take her through Turkey towards Europe and a better life.

This movie takes a unique look at Baghtcheban School, the special school for deaf children, how it deal with teaching the kids and how they lives are effected by it.

On a rainy cold night, Raheleh cannot survive travail and dies before her husband Mousa arrives home. For the rest of life, Mousa accuses himself for her death. He devotes himself and his ...

Parviz has as its increasingly horrifying anti-hero the 50-year-old hulk of a passive-aggressive bachelor son (theater director/activist Haftvan), whose free ride in life screeches to a halt when his miserly widowed father forms a plan to remarry.

In the midst of war, a man watches his beloved one by lighting the three matches he has left. Then, in the pitch darkness, a forest grows from their lovemaking and protects them from the war.

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.

Ali and Hassan are two intimate friends but when a woman Aghdas is intervening in between everything is change.

Another house movie story "Another House" is a film in the drama genre produced in 2016. Behnoosh Sadeghi is directing and writing this film. In this film, actors such as Gohar Kheirandish, Leila Zare, Pejman Bazghi, Mahnoosh Sadeghi, etc. have played roles. The story of this film is about the personal life of Habibollah. In the last years of his life, this father decides to return to his ancestral home.

Ziba and Ahmad are in love. However, the village elder, who is Ahmad's father, disapproves of their union. He desires for Ahmad to marry a woman from a wealthy family to improve their social standing.

Association of Ideas...

A different story from a contemporary inflamed event

A theater directed by Mehdi Sheikhvand

Rahmanzadeh and his wife and daughter Maryam and their little son MohammadReza go to the north for fun. Reza Sharifi prepares a villa and tries to get the girl. Maryam is looking for a rich young man named Mehran Bozorgniya; But she takes a poor young man named Ahmad instead. The two fall in love after a while. But Ahmad reveals that he is not Mehran. Maryam leaves Ahmad and accidentally meets Mehran.

A documentary about the oil pipe installation in Khark, Iran in 1962.

A naive villager enters the city and, due to his strong resemblance to the city's ruler, is mistaken for him. Since the ruler got lost during a hunt, the villager governs as the ruler for a day or two. But eventually, the real ruler is found, and the villager goes back to his own work.

Yadollah who is working in a mental hospital has lost his wife recently and lives alone in his old house. One day he meets a patient Delaram who wants to see her only child and decides to help her.

The story of Cousin Za’s mischief that makes some trouble with Redhat and Mr. Presenter and creates new adventure that leads to the arrival of an unwanted guest.

A young couple after many years from their marriage are after having a baby but because of some medical problems and the need for special treatment they can not having a baby. They decide to travel to London for the treatment and begin to manage money for that but some incidents make the woman to begin to doubt about continuing this trip.

Arjang, a wealthy businessman, is having a bad day. After suffering a theft and a car accident in the same day, he must also try to deal with the greed of the wife he is trying to divorce. When he meets Afsaneh, a beautiful pickpocket, these two very different worlds collide and an incredible adventure begins.

When Arezoo and Amir-Hossein can't conceive a child together, Arezoo's friend Tahareh is willing to act as a surrogate. But Tahareh's ex-husband has his say in the matter.

An investigation of government censorship in Iran.

A couple (Golzar & Afshar) who have been bickering & fighting from day one, are contemplating divorce until by chance they both end up visiting a therapist (Pesiani) who dishes them the secrets of a good relationship. Various episodes from the couple's married life are represented as flashbacks in a lighthearted manner.

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.

Hamid is a music teacher for orphaned children who, together with his half-sister Maryam, takes a busload of them on a trip to the seaside. They cross paths with Minou, a young woman struggling to come to terms with her father's remarriage. Sympathetic to the orphans' situation, and hoping to provide a distraction from her attempts to bond with her stepmother, Minou invites them to come and stay on her land. As she and Hamid begin to fall in love, other agencies contrive to prevent them in this bittersweet comedy about chance encounters and love blossoming from the simplest of gestures.

Based on a true story Damoon who is a former football coach meets a girl he had a relationship with many years ago.

A teacher trying to reach a remote village is attacked by wolves.

Arbab Jamshid St. is a congregation place for the extras of Persian Film where they wait for a famous person called Ciccio to take them to the movie location. There is a newcomer in this group; a young man called Davoud who has moved to Tehran from a small town with the hope of becoming an actor.

The people who are living on an island are leaving there because of the situation that became worse recently even they are taking body of their relatives to the port near the island. This island is in the middle of political struggle.