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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.
A wealthy young man named Hamid falls into a coma after a car accident, and his soul, in the afterlife, falls in love with the soul of a young woman. Meanwhile, his body in this world gradually recovers, and he comes out of the coma. Now he wants to return to that other world, but suicide is forbidden and would certainly send him to hell, and…
The events taking place in the era we live in do not stem from choices made in parallel universes or an unreal world , but are the outcome of choices made by us . We each play our part , and are responsible for the current state we live in
A playwright Iran tries to confront a creative crisis while political clashes erupt during her country's 2009 election.
Life is like a movie. Whether it's short or long, it begins somewhere and ends unexpectedly somewhere else. We ought to watch it all involuntarily.
A movie directed by Ali Ghaffari
A theatre directed by Afsaneh Mahian.
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.
Salimi is a well-respected merchant who goes bankrupt after being cheated by his partner. He commits suicide abroad. A man and a woman who were taking care of Salimi’s young daughter Azar start to mistreat her after learning about Salimi’s death. Azar runs away from their house and settles in the home of one of her relatives. She grows up alongside Mahmoud, and years later, after meeting Ali, she falls in love with him.
When Ayeshe loses her only child to hunger and poverty, she decides to avenge her ex-husband who she holds responsible for all her troubles.
Rajab and his friend Ghorban accidentally enter the 20st century from ancient times and after a few events, decide to return to their time and period.
Hanieh, a young teacher, lives in the household of her married sister in Tehran. Increasingly exhausted by her paralysing everyday life and the two-faced reality she subliminally experiences as a woman, an employee, a younger sister, and unhappy partner, Hanieh struggles to find her way out.
It's 1997 and Afghanistan is controlled by the Taliban. Seventeen-year-old Jalil Nazari finds refuge in Iran, where he ekes out an existence doing odd jobs. One day luck comes his way and he lands the starring role in an Iranian feature film.
The story of the love between Morad and Narges.
Roja is a teenage village girl who is forced to marry a religious old man for blood money. On their wedding night, the husband demands to have sex with Roja against her will. Running against time, and with the help of a close friend, she embarks on a desperate lonely journey towards hope and emancipation.
Parkway is a crossing in Tehran. Part horror, part thriller, the film chronicles the tribulations of a young couple, Raha and Kouhyar.
Parviz (Ali Sadeghi) is trying to marry a rich girl and for this he starts a bag snatching with his friend Ahmad. Coincidentally, during the bag snatching, the bag of Parviz's favorite girl's uncle is also snatched, and on the wedding night
The film, which is in sharp monochrome, relates the story of a twenty-four-hour-long journey of two young Iranian soldiers (Issā and Emād) and a civilian driver (Amu Rahim) transporting thirty-eight Iraqi prisoners of war, taken from behind the Iraqi line, to a garrison inside Iran. From the details one is informed that the Iran–Iraq War has entered into its third year. The film masterfully depicts the deep inhumanity of acts of war amongst nations by showing the shared humanity of the combatants on both sides
In a ruined amusement park, a poor mother sets out to buy a rare blue tangerine to save her family. In a world where gold and stone are the same, the boundary between humanity and animal instinct slowly disappears.
The adventures of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar's life before ascending to the throne until his assassination by a Georgian, including his encounter with Sohrab, who is in love with one of the Qajar princesses.
A man finds himself trapped in the world of Faust, where he must confront his deepest nightmares and desires. He meets devil and a pale girl in this world, and to set the girl free, he must make a choice and do sacrifice. At the end, he makes the girl leave the hell she's trapped in, and as the payment, he becomes the devil of the world as the previous devil exits.
After a US missile strike on an Iranian nuclear plant, armed conflict erupts in the Persian Gulf between the forces of America and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, led by Qassem Soleimani.
It is an episodic movie about Ashora and social subjects made from 4 episodes each with a different director and about a different subject.
It's about the University of Demons, where one of its students, Lucifer, has to go among people and deceive them in order to get a passing grade, but Lucifer is kind and things happen to her ...
Set in late 40s in Iran, a politically exiled man meets strange rural people with weird actions and accents in a village called Barareh.
as Siavash struggles with himself and the people around him to forget the one person he loved the most in his life, Farangis, he finds out that things weren't the way she told them before their separation from each other and he is forced to confront his past.
Taghi and Zari run away from their village to get married in Tehran, away from their disapproving parents. However living in a big city is not as easy as it seems.
Meysam and Tina have just married and are renting a new building. One day they start washing the car in the parking lot and a few hours later they find out that it has fallen down. They have doubts whethet to tell the truth or hide it from their neighbors, and conflict between them to find the culprit ensues. Then they discover more serious problems.
A thief stops stealing and some of his criminal companions are also caught by the police, but he himself is pursued by the thieves.
Farhad, an unemployment law student who is busy with alcohol sales, decides to migrate to the United States. Farhad wins U.S. Green Card Lottery so travels to Turkey with his wife, Elham and Navid; his son, for the issued diversity visa. During this trip, Farhad is informed of a mass alcohol poisoning during a party where he had provided their alcohol consumption for last time, it had led to death of some people, and the hospitalization of others in critical condition of blindness. This news causes his mental confusion to have a sense of guilt. When Elham gets notified of the story, is shocked and starts going off on Farhad then she decides to return to Iran. Rather, an unexpected incident destroys totally his life.
Mr. Mavadat in a party in his garden gets poisonous and his friends have to take him to doctor Hatam. But the doctor hides many dark secrets in his basement which are revealed little by little.
The 3rd film of the series this time White Forehead is trapped by the Octopussy and Monkey who is the hero will go to save her.
While homosexuality is considered a major taboo in Iran, the Koran makes no specific mention of transsexuality and after a decree was passed down by the Ayatollah Khomeni permitting sexual reassignment surgery for transsexuals, the nation has shown a tolerance for transgendered individuals. Filmmakers Negin Kianfar and Daisy Mohr offer filmed portraits of three Iranian transsexuals and how they live their lives. Mahtab is a man in the outside world, but lives as a woman at home, which angers his father and confuses his mother, though they've come to accept his decision to have a sex change. Saye, meanwhile, is a woman trapped in a man's body who has not been as lucky as Mahtab - after repeated violence from her father, she was banished from the family home, and now shares an apartment with her lover, Afshin. Afshin is also a transsexual, but since becoming a man, he insists Saye stay home and observe the cultural restrictions that apply to women in a fundamentalist Muslim society.
Nollywood yoruba language movie with full english subtitle, Asiri (yoruba for Secrets) is a tale of three child hoodfriend who reconnect after a very long time away from each other only to find out that they all share secrets that interconnect them in dubious ways
Soheila, whose husband is executed for murder, is sexually assaulted by her brother-in-law after her husband's death. On the night when Soheila is planning to escape from Tehran, her brother-in-law comes to her house, and they get into a drunken fight. Escaping from his hands, Soheila flees to the rooftop, where the brother-in-law loses his balance and falls to his death. Soheila is arrested, and the husband's family demands revenge. A court is convened, and Soheila is sentenced to the death penalty.
A working-class man returns to his city from a distant job and spends the night at a friend's house instead of going home to his wife.
A relatively wealthy family takes a child from a village to the city to serve in their house. The child patiently and dedicatedly uses his minimal free time for education and becomes an active and valuable person in his youth. While Hamid, the eldest son of the family, who grew up in prosperity, becomes a delinquent youth. The two fall in love with a young girl.
A military base south of Iran has been attacked by the Iraqi air force. Among the wounded is a volunteer called Abdolali Safari. When he's injured, the doctors realize the shrapnel in his leg is larger than normal, and it soon turns out to be a cluster bomb. The matter of defusing the bomb inside Abdolali divides the surgeons of the hospital.
Two detainees are planning to flee from jail.
A young woman in pre-revolution Iran is caught between the traditional values of her small village and her own yearnings for independence and individuality. Her persistent refusal of marriage proposals coupled with her unseemly removal of her hood causes her family to seek the help of an exorcist, convinced she must be possessed by evil spirits. Made surreptitiously in 1977 just as the Ayatollah Khomeini regime was coming to power, a rough cut of ‘The Sealed Soil” was smuggled out of Iran by the director in a false-bottomed suitcase, and taken to the U.S., where she completed her final cut. The film has never been seen in Iran.
On her way back from work, a woman witnesses something happening in the bus. She must decide if she will reveal it or not.
A theater directed by Reza Dadouiee
Directed by Amir Shervan.
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....
Encounter two person with a common objective in broken timeline.
Amir and Reza Sooti in their youth promise to meet each other 20 years later on a special day and by putting an advertisement in the newspapers. On that special day Reza comes but Amir is late but they meet later while don't know each other and this lead to more adventures.
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...
A singer from a small town is on his way to Tehran for work when his car breaks down.
"The Equator" is the humorous story of the president and vice president of the Football Federation, who are on their way to Malaysia to participate in the AFC annual meeting; But by going to the island of Bali in Indonesia to sign a contract with Zidane, funny things happen to them.
“A Childless Village” is a small rural village, where no children have been born for a while and all the men assume that it is the fault of the women. Two decades ago, old filmmaker Kazem came to this remote rural village to make a documentary about the sterility of the village women. But the village women wanted to protect their dignity, so they stole and burnt the footage. By today the villagers have found out that the men are barren and there is nothing wrong with the women. With the help of his assistant, Kazem tries to record some interviews with the infertile men to unfold the truth in a new movie, but this turns out in many ways to be a Mission: Impossible.
A personal journey through my father's video-tapes to find what's left behind, what I want to be in my videos, and my mother and her image. Looking for her face.
Sudabeh returns to Iran after years to escape the punishment of conscience, but he needs to tell a secret that it is difficult to tell a secret ...
Kaveh hits a pedestrian with his car and is arrested. His father-in-law, Haji Tavasoli guarantees him to be released. When released from prison, Kaveh finds out his brother is killed and ...
A story of three women in a hair salon - Pegah is getting ready for her wedding when her fiancé puts her in a difficult situation, Shahla is pregnant and worries about the father’s reaction when he finds out, and Haydedeh gets a surprise visit from her ex-husband who is leaving the country.
Mohammad Javad Halimi is a simple government's employer who manages after years to buy a house for himself outside the city's limits. But in the second night in his new house a thief is coming to his house. He manages to catch the thief but delivering him to the authorities is another story.
A thief who is burglarizing gets surprised by the host and commits a brutal murder. He runs away but realizes that something is following him.