Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

est.. sahar namzad said ba padresh bah taharan miayand ve o bayad chand ruz The film is about a boy named Saeed who comes to Tehran to do business with the money he gets from his mother. But in the meantime, he gets caught up in pyramid schemes and loses all his money and becomes a debtor. Saeed, on the other hand, tells his family that he has a garage in Tehran, while he is the caretaker of a garage. Saeed's fiancée Sahar comes to Tehran with her father and he has to stay for a few days.

A burglar breaks into a country house and discovers someone is imprisoned there.

“Avo” tells the story of an Iranian Armenian boy who, after his grandfather’s death, escapes into his imagination to reconnect with him. Amidst mourning adults and feeling unnoticed, Avo’s fantastical journey redefines their bond, exploring the emotional intersection of life and death.

An intimate stream of memories reaching out across time and space, taking on a uniquely experimental form that cuts the viewer adrift in a weave of old footage rising to the surface of consciousness like a dream.

Sina and Sharare's honeymoon takes unexpected turns.

Short film made with stop motion animation techniques.

Short film directed by Hushang Shafti showing a study of the life of primitive nomad tribesmen, embodying traditional Persian customs and music.

A girl who loves her brother, sees a boy in college, who looks exactly like him.

Now I shall sing the second kingdom there where the soul of man is cleansed, made worthy to ascend to Heaven. (Purgatorio: Canto I)

A textile factory worker struggles to keep his life together after his life is shrouded in controversy by his wife’s death. He is revered by his co-workers and at constant threat from his wife’s brother, seeking retribution for her death.

Forty-year-old Farid lives with his mother. When she suddenly dies, Farid is left all alone and, fearing loneliness, makes random acquaintances on the street and tries to invite each new acquaintance to his home. Not having sufficient communication skills, Farid repeatedly gets into unpleasant situations.

An Iranian TV-play adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.

Forget everything you think you know about storytelling! And get ready for a very surreal trip. Narges Kalhor plunges us in a funny and deconstructed joyful apocalypse of a web of stories while following four characters who moved to Germany in order to escape the dire and dangerous political situation of their countries.

A humorous comedy story starring Yousef Teymouri and Ali Sadeghi in a different role, imitating the famous German series Warning for Cobra 11

Banafsheh and her grandmother went to visit her mother’s grave. On the train back home, they meet a teacher with whom she hits if off immediately. The teacher promises the young girl to call, but the phone call never comes.

Hasan and Davod are two friends of old times who are living together. Hasan is continuously writing screenplays which are all about a dark and bitter space, so the producers do not want them. Hasan loves Mahshid who is the daughter of a wealthy family. Due to his financial situation, Hasan is humiliated by Mahshid's uncle who is taking care of her. Hasan who is upset about this condition, decides to write a screenplay favorite to the producers so he writes it and goes to a producer who has always rejected his screenplays. He begins reading his new screenplay to him. When he finishes reading the screenplay, the producer buys it enthusiastically so Hasan can be wealthy too.

A social portrait of two young lovers that reflects the larger prejudices of society.

A young villager named Nader is interested in Golnar, the daughter of Kodkhoda, but Kodkhoda is against their marriage, and decides to marry his daughter to a steward. Mubasher and Ramal of the village conspire against Nader, but there is a difference between the two of them, whose job it is to make the residents rebellious. Ramal is killed by the butler, and the butler identifies Nader as the murderer and makes him leave the village. Before Mubasher and Gulnar's marriage ceremony is held, he runs away and meets Farrukh Khan, the nobleman who is an educated young man. After hearing the story of Gulnar, Arbab's son makes it possible for him to study and gradually falls in love with him. However, after Golnar insists on marrying Nader and uncovering the secret of Ramal's murder and the butler's arrest, Farrokh, despite his mother's opinion, puts Golnar and Nader on the wedding table.

After her son gets imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, a mother races against time to gather evidence to prove that he is not guilty.

A crow that is bored of living among other crows decides to leave them, when sees an eagle flies high in the sky. It starts following the eagle to learn how to fly higher...

Hamid's brother has been missing in action, presumed dead, for twenty-two years. Coming to terms with the loss, Hamid has now moved on and, as custom dictates, married his brother's widow.

The movie "Snow Bride" tells the story of Major Amirhossein Fathi and his wedding to Pooneh. On their wedding night, Pooneh is kidnapped, and the Major sets out to find his wife.

An elderly couple is preparing to attend their young granddaughter’s birthday party while also attempting to conceal a secret from their children…

In a small village in the Iranian countryside, a young woman’s marriage leads to both partying and partaking.

The tradesmen live a peaceful and happy life until the "carpenter" meets a girl...

Mahrokhak and Golabatoon are two sisters. As they escape a mandatory wedding, they enter the jungle and look for the young man who can save them. In the meanwhile, they are trapped by an old wicked predator who wants to hunt them. To escape from this trap, each of them must make a sacrifice for the other.

A theater directed by Kiumars Moradi

A short documentary about a man who had a dream of being an actor

Ardalan is an ordinary man with an ordinary job and ordinary salary but his wife, Pooneh couldn`t stand it and wants more and more from him. This greediness of Pooneh makes their life face to some problems

A young pilots is in love with a young girl and plans to marry her, but he has an accident before he could open the marriage to the public.

A couple's son, Parham disappears in the babysitter's house. Complications arise as the babysitter claims Parham hasn't been to their house.

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Three years after his marriage, Bahram decides to take her wife to honeymoon.

This rarely screened early short made for The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults documents the complete restauration of the Jahan-nama Palace, one of the Shah's traditional residencies.

A couple of children earn their living by playing music on the streets of Teheran. But a thief steals their accordion.

Taban, a 25-year-old actress, auditions for a lead role in a major film. During the final screen test, she's required to act out an intense emotional scene. The casting director pushes her by probing her personal relationship with her father to evoke the necessary reactions. While successful in securing the role, Taban struggles with the psychological impact of the audition process. This film explores the troubling intersection between artistic vulnerability and ethical boundaries.

Bahareh gets disabled in an accident just a few months after the start of the school year. According to the Ministry of Education, she must continue her education in special school. Bahareh refuses to go to special school and tries to convince her former school to accept her. However, existing laws prevent the return of Bahareh to the regular school and she remains suspended. Bahareh and her mother fight to solve this problem.

Three stories about the life of a boy named Majid. Stories about misunderstanding and being misunderstood and the struggles he deals with at school. How a rosary scares him and how he thinks he's doing good while a bunch of other problems come up.

When the city of Mehran is occupied, the commander-in-chief gives the order to liberate the city. After this order, several psychological wars are launched in different directions to guide the Iraqi army so that the Iranian forces can attack the city and return from the enemy. Hajj Ahmad Lotfi enters the psychological war in one of the vital places in Majnoon. He has a secret mission. When this operation begins, he engages the deputy of the region so that he can fight Hajj Ahmad. This tension threatens Hajj Ahmad more and more. This operation progresses until the region is in danger of Iraqi forces. And ...

A village girl gets tricked by the landlord's son and gets lost in the city while chasing him. The result of this deception comes into existence, but the mother has no choice but to abandon her child. The child finds its way to a wealthy family and continues its life. One day, the child meets an old woman who had an accident in the hospital. She donates her blood to her, and the doctor realizes that the old woman's and the girl's blood types are a rare but similar group. The girl and mother recognize each other, and the story ends happily after many years.

To make her beloved Nader notice her, Hayedeh tries to provoke his jealousy by approaching another man. Nader, in turn, exacerbates Hayedeh's mistake and, out of revenge, enters into an unsuccessful marriage. A marriage that ends with the murder of his unfaithful wife.

A student filmmaker finds out her mother has been having recurrent dreams of her imminent death. Believing she is soon to die, the mother decides to both accomplish her outstanding religious duties and fulfill her children's wishes. She knows that her daughter's foremost ambition is to complete a feature film, and so hires a superstar. Eventually, while waiting for death to take her, the mother is confronted by an unexpected event.

After the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, a boy grew up obsessed with all the movies he couldn't see. He met a mysterious film collector who saved thousands of films from destruction by the new regime. Despite arrest and torture, the collector refused to give up his secret hoard. Together they forged a friendship based on passion for cinema and resistance against tyranny. The boy escaped to exile in London to become a filmmaker, and tells their shared story of obsession and celluloid dreams.

A former Iraqi army commander under Saddam Hussein, responsible for the mass murder of Kurds, is looking for witnesses who want to testify that he actually saved lives.

In the middle of the Islamic revolution of Iran in 1979 Captain Kalali who was in jail because of being a Communist is getting release from the prison. But he is after Keymaram the former leader of them who had betrayed them to kill him. Captain goes to Isfahan and manages to kill him and then after that he meets his wife and children who were away from him for a long time.

Set in a snowy Iranian army training camp, the intimacy of the barracks is contrasted with the namelessness of the conscripts. This movie most closely tracks the conversations of two soon to be soldiers and the hand held tape recorder that one hides from the drill instructors. When one of them gets a leave to go to Tehran this recorder becomes a means of communicating to home for many of the conscripts, and is a way for them to pick up the sounds of the city in the remote training camp.

The filmmaker has lost his father whose personal belongings make the filmmaker reflect on the nature of death.

Saeed, the antique thief, is arrested by the police and released after three years to identify his accomplices. The police use Borzo's house, which is opposite Saeed's residence, to keep an eye on him. Borzo's family is very nosy and at the same time simple, which causes trouble for the police, which creates interesting comedic adventures and

A movie directed by Hossein Mirzamohammadi

A girl goes missing. Her father and brother find each other while searching for her.

“I am God”, said Mansour Hallaj and refused to answer the questions his statement provoked. Instead, he calmly awaited his execution. Eleven hundred years later, modern playwright Nader follows in Hallaj’s footsteps. A tragic history repeats itself, once again accompanied by a curious crowd and an accepting silence.

This film explores a transformative human library initiative in the Harandi neighborhood, where the experiences of street women facing harassment and abuse are shared and expressed. A safe space for storytelling, this unique library allows individuals to engage with real-life narratives, fostering empathy and understanding through personal connections.

The first press conference of Major General Soleimani, Commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, along with the remarks and recommendations of the Leader of the Revolution during the 33-day war with the Zionist regime.