Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

A theater directed by Shiva Ordooee

A lustful man doesn't even pass by his friend's wife and brings corruption to the point where his friend is taken to the hospital because of the severity of his work. Several years later, with the repetition of the incident, the target is his friend's son. He will be warned this time.

Emkan is a 17-year-old teenager who has not seen his father for many years and his mother works late night in a factory. He has a small recording camera and he decides to make a film to give a twist to his routine life, however, he is not very proficient. He tries his best to achieve his goal…

An adaptation of Hero (1992), The Prank (Persian: Shoukhi) tells the story of Reza Fathali (Parviz Parastui), a petty criminal who saves the passengers of a crashed airplane; however, his friend, Ebrahim Nazabadi (Habib Rezaei) takes credit for his heroism.

Unfinished Song stars Ali-Reza Anoushfar as Farhad, a young musicologist who returns to his birthplace, Iran's Khorasan province, to record and preserve the region's traditional folk songs. When he gets there, he discovers that of the region's once-rich musical tradition, only a few songs are still performed, mainly because women are banned from singing. He also finds out about a woman named Heyran (Ghogha Bayat) who has been imprisoned for that very reason and he becomes determined to find her and record her voice. His meetings with her in jail open up another mystery that connects his family to hers and reveals how her steadfast love of music has doomed her to a life of persecution.

Introduces the official religions and denominations in Iran and It depicts the performance of various religious ceremonies in mosques, prayer rooms, churches and fire temples.

Ahmad is a clergy man who has a quiet and lovely life with her wife. However, his life changes when her wife becomes pregnant. Economical pressure causes him to change jobs until he is offered a role in a movie.

Four leftist, idealistic teenagers set out to make an artistic and conceptual film, in order to SAVE CINEMA.

Zary comes to Tehran to help her family. However, premarital conditions have made stories for them.

Parya's mother is a writer of children stories. One of the characters in the story kidnaps her. In order to save her mother, Parya enters the story.

A theater directed by Setareh Aminian

Part 3 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.

“Hormoz,” who is a swindler and a fraudster, deceives “Maryam” and then disappears. Maryam’s parents, out of goodwill and concern for their daughter’s future, send her child to an orphanage and pretend that the baby is dead. Later, Maryam marries a young man named “Jamshid” and through an incident, she discovers that her child is alive.

Siamak, Esi and Taghi are three penniless friends. Taghi is addicted and not trying to help get rid of his addiction. Siamak meets a girl Gandom and falls in love with her. She works in a school (washing cloths there) but when they find about her relationship with Siamak, they fire her. Gandom has heart problems and should go to Europe to meet the right treatments. Siamak wants to send her there but to collect enough money he begins do illegals.

The story is about a leggy-man and a short-man producing funny performs.

Taji finds herself with the opportunity to gain revenge on her abusive husband - but should she take that chance or offer forgiveness?

When three women attack Ubaid Allah ibn Ziyad in one of Kufa's neighborhoods to prevent him from crucifying his enemy Hanadala al-Hamdani, Handala flees through the chaos and looks for a way out of Kufa while Ibn Ziyad's men chase him everywhere.

Roofs after rain.

Nosrat and Ahmed are two security surveillance divers. The latter is lost during an operation, while his wife is waiting for him in Ahari hospital. The movie takes a look at the mutual relationships and the moods of those who are directly affected by war.

When best friends Reza and Siavash pick up a mysterious, deadly young woman on the north road out of the city, they cannot hope to comprehend the chilling events that are to follow them on their journey. Caught up in a strange calamitous world, one preceded by a terrible accident in the past, the friends find themselves alone in the forest with their enigmatic passenger and the heart of a perplexing mystery in this gripping, twisting drama.

A disabled child living with his parents tries to relate emotionally to other members of his family.

The story of Layla and Majnun.

When a woman’s wig is found in the groom’s car just a few nights before the wedding, the two families get into a conflict—because it turns out the bride’s father had borrowed the groom’s car that same day…

Salim Shaheen film from Afghanistan

A young woman wanders through an eerily empty city, consumed by a profound sense of isolation. As she moves through fragments of her daily life, the boundary between reality and her inner world gradually dissolves, blurring perception and emotion.

Old Iranian film by Abbas Shabaviz.

A documentary about the most famous serial killer in the early 2000s in Iran, "Bijeh" was a serial killer who mainly targeted children.

When the older brother realizes that his younger brother has fallen into the trap of the temptations of a dancer, he places a girl in his path...

"Setayesh" tells the story of a mother who works as a physician and has a daughter who has recently gotten engaged. Then events unfold that open the daughter's eyes to her past, leading her to discover things in which...

After the death of her husband, Fereshte has a difficult time raising her daughter and son alone. When her daughter becomes sick, she has to hospitalize her with the help of their neighbor, Talat. She remains in the hospital with her son, but in the morning doctors tell her that it is too late and they can do nothing more.

It is the story of young people interested in cinema and music who dream of being seen, but are sometimes abused by profiteers and strangers in the world of cinema and music, and later find themselves exposed to despair and depression.

In a misty village, on the top of a mountain, two gamblers take an old man to his cottage in the middle of the jungle to get their money back. They bury him alive in his own garden, find the money in his house, and split it between themselves.

Asra and Taraneh are two friends who share their secrets and dreams with each other at school to participate in the "Best Wish" painting competition, but an unexpected event changes the cour...

The story is about Mojtaba, an archive employee who is stuck in the boring routine of life. He suffers from sleep disorders and in his dreams meets a woman who changes his life.

A girl escapes from the constraints and limitations of her family to live as she pleases. Through a series of adventures, the girl realizes that she made a mistake in her judgment and therefore returns to her family and starts a new life.

An overview of the four decades of life and struggles of Hajj Mehdi Araghi from the acquaintance with the martyr Nawab Safavi to his martyrdom.

A young mother is pregnant but her boyfriend is lost in Iran's political strikes.she must decide what to do. being pregnant without marriage is forbidden in Iran also abortion is forbidden.one week with her in her decision.

With Mohsen Khan's death, his brother Asadullah Khan and his wife decide to get rid of Mohsen's daughters and seize Mohsen Khan's inheritance.

At the same time as the 2014 World Cup games in Brazil, two young people are making plans in their heads that will face many problems...

Reza Alamdar and his wife Hajar have no children. Reza is partner with another guy Abdollah in a cattle. Hajar who can not has children insist on her husband to get marry again so he has children but he is refusing. By accident Abdollah is imprisoned and wants Reza to take care of his family in his absence but that will brings some problems for them.

In Tehran, a perfectionist mother has planned the perfect engagement dinner party for her daughter. But when the cake is held up in the traffic of a political protest, her meticulous party begins to unravel. The film takes place entirely in the kitchen with the women, behind the scenes of the party, as their pleasantries and "tarofs" slowly crumble. Within this domestic microcosm, the power shifts begin to strangely echo those of the outside world.

The body's survival mechanisms take over. One such response is tonic immobility, a state where voluntary movement is reduced or completely frozen. This involuntary reaction is often misinterpreted as passivity or compliance, reinforcing damaging narratives around consent and agency.

The parents of two students are summoned to the school due to the loss of the camera of one of them.

A solar eclipse has brought people to the edge of madness. The Earth witnesses extreme brutality manifested by the need to make terrible sacrifices to an unknown evil. How could this have happened? Is this the wrath of God? Such is the view of a group of extremists who are quick to deal with those responsible. But who decides who is guilty and who is not? Vahid Vakilifar’s fourth film offers an intoxicating, visionary sci-fi which, in spite of the darkness consuming the world, believes in the power of light. Even the goriest images conceal at least a sliver of hope; they serve as a necessary ritual if we are to accept the demons that inhabit us all.

Bahman's daughter is kidnapped. Farokh recently fired as a police man is going to help him find his daughter.

In a Tehran youth detention centre, detainees have the right to short furloughs, as long as their family provides sufficient bail to guarantee their return. The detention centre’s governor decides to help those without family to take advantage of this right.

Mahdi (Morteza Aghili), who has a poor life with her mother (Mehri Vedadian) and her father Ous Hussein (Abbas Nazeri), is introduced to a wealthy girl named Gul (Alicen Vigen) whose father Hesam Khan (Kheshayar) has left her And he warns against Mahdi.

A boy has lived and grown up in an unstable family situation. His parents are constantly in conflict about various issues and the father always beats the mother and the child. In one of these family conflicts, the father pushes the mother down the stairs and paralyzes her. Years later, the mother dies and the boy, now a grown man, struggles with his own mental problems. He puts his father in a wheelchair instead of her lost mother and does makeup instead of his mother. In this way, he takes revenge for his disordered childhood.

A poetic film in which a carpet is being woven and a woman with long hair and warm eyes is staring at the camera.

A theater directed Kiumars Moradi

Part 10 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.

Ahmad Agha Shahr-e Farangi is facing a market slump. The existence of cinema and television has greatly reduced his customers. In order to earn a living, he goes to an unfamiliar village at the beginning of the protected area of Semnan province, which is not far from Tehran. Upon arrival, he encounters extreme poverty and sad stories in the village. The behavior of village’s children is not predictable for Ahmad Agha. Their fear of this stranger and his strange device does not prevent them from approaching it to arouse curiosity….

On his wedding night, his father wants to plan all his life, he even chose a wife for him. The groom realizes that his father is much more worse father than he ever thought.

Three young Iranian women, all deaf-mute karate champions, are invited to compete at the World Championships in Germany. Tehran's authorities don't see an issue, as long as they wear a hood to cover their hair and neck.

Siyavosh at Persepolis tells the story of the Crown Prince of Iran, Siyavosh, who after a falling-out with his father leaves Iran and settles in Turan. There he marries the daughter of King Afrasyab and is killed in a plot by the king’s scheming and jealous son. The film combines this ancient story with documentary-style scenes of foreign tourists visiting the ruins of Persepolis in the present, creating a work in which past, future, present, legend, theater and a myriad of filmic forms are combined in a dense intertextuality.

The story of four kids who are after some smugglers to reveal their plans and catch them. Their parents work in a company which is about to be close and they want to save it from that.