Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

Sarah, a teenage school girl, faces few challenges with her sexual identity. She cannot express her feelings to her mother. She decided to leave home with her partner, Franak, with no coming back.

"Bonus" is about a student and his friend, who conspire against their math teacher.

The film starts in the 1970s and is the story of a SAVAK's member (Reza Attaran) who involves in many different adventures and challenges.

For Muslims, puberty begins at the age of nine, and from that moment on girls wear the hijab. What’s been happening in the lives of two Iranian girls since this important event?

After the death of his father, Saleh is responsible for providing for his mother. Saleh and his friend Adnaan are both in love with Morvarid, and Adnaan, who has been raised by Saleh, sacrifices his own feelings so that Saleh can marry Morvarid. Ebaad, the owner of a café in the port, is also in love with Morvarid and advises Saleh against marrying her. Saleh goes to the sea to catch pearls. He dives deep into the water and does not return...

A Tehran couple expecting a baby live a suburban lifestyle that is far from glamorous. Both are stuck in dead-end jobs with no real prospects and no end in sight. Despite their precarious existence, the young couple still strive to be happy. However, fate deals them a critical blow forcing them to adapt to new lives while still preparing for their future. Gripping drama examining happiness in the face of adversity.

After discovering traces of Persian onager DNA in his blood, a man sets out to find the herd he truly belongs to.

After getting infected with COVID-19, a 57-year-old Iranian painter, single woman, Mitra, goes into a coma. With her last breaths, she begins travelling to different pieces of her memories through her unconscious mind. Mitra’s spirit comes back home to pack an imaginary luggage full of her bittersweet memories and take it away. Moments before her last travel, just like Lot’s wife, she looks back at the lives of hers, her friends and her generation… at what they have done, what they have built and what they have ruined…

A Piece of Music In A Symphony

The people of Yazd are harassed by Qasim the extortionist, until Habib and Tahir force Qasim to change his ways. One night, Habib meets Shirin, Qasim's friend, in a notorious neighborhood and offers to marry her if she repents. Habib takes Shirin to Mashhad and gives his sister Maryam to Tahir. Qasim, who holds a grudge against Tahir, insults Maryam. The local baker, who witnesses the incident, remains silent, and Tahir marries Maryam to protect his reputation and that of his friend. Qasim's henchmen spread the rumor that Tahir married her after deceiving Maryam. They lock him in a room to silence the baker. Habib returns to Yazd with the intention of taking revenge; But the local confidants force him and Taher to face each other in the depths of the fort to prevent bloodshed. Before the fight begins, the baker escapes with a wounded body and, with Shirin's help, makes his way to the fort and reveals the truth. Habib and Taher go after Qasim and eventually hand him over to the police.

This collection is the story of two families headed by Ata and Houshang. Atta has a child who is very dear to her, but he is a curious child, and the story is based on Atta's conflict with her child.

A short film.

After being discharged from the military service, four friends decide to establish a boarding house in Tehran, and each of them undertakes a task: one is a waiter, another is a cook, the third is a doorman, and the last one is elected as the director of the boarding house.

A few young people, after having many problems in their personal lives, instead of trying to solve these problems with the right decisions, draw a dangerous plan that leads to unfortunate events and ...

A family from Afghanistan moves to a foreign country to live a better and happier life, but they desire to have it all.

Two young men struggle with problems typical for 30-year-olds in contemporary Iran: unemployment, oppression, lack of self confidence and loneliness. Both have dogs who look similar to each other.

A quiet man has a story about Afghan nationals and their problems in the community

Hamid's marriage is falling apart due to financial constraints. During a hostage situation, he accidentally owns a bag full of money and escapes with a deaf and dumb woman. One of the thugs chases after him and finally Hamid is injured by his bullet. The deaf and dumb young woman kills the criminal. In the end, Hamid realizes that the young woman is not deaf and dumb, but a girl who has made herself deaf and dumb to remain anonymous.

Malik, who lives with his wife Zarrin Taj and his addicted girl Fariba, is on the brink of bankruptcy ...

Salim Shaheen film from Afghanistan

A painter named Naser, who is heading to the Caspian Sea coasts for recreation and to paint a few canvases, takes refuge in Sabzdasht, Mazandaran, after a car accident and the death of the passengers. He stays in the hut of Ows Mohammadhasan, who lives with his daughter Goli.

A theater directed by Masoud Saketof

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.

Mahmoud and his wife Parvin do not have children after eight years of their marriage. Gol Andam - Rajab's concubine wife, Mahmoud's servant, leaves her baby in front of Mahmoud's house...

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 middle-aged doctor and his young assistant are both smitten with a girl. The girl likes the doctor's assistant, but the doctor, who is deeply in love with the girl, sends the assistant away on some pretext. He then gets closer to the girl and, with the support of her parents, marries her. They have a peaceful life until the assistant returns and the truth comes out. After a series of events, it's ultimately the doctor who steps aside.

With the beginning of the Islamic Revolution, and the escalation of the conflicts and SAVAK agents fleeing, Doctor, one of the most outstanding members of SAVAK, hides in a village. During this retreat, he gradually goes over his past and remembers how he stepped on the corpses of the innocent and even submitted his wife to his bosses to get to the position he wanted. Doctor's wife who has committed suicide, doesn't let his mind settle down at all as he's facing with his past, and this ruins his mental and emotional balance. The curious villagers who thought he was a doctor at fırst, consider him a lunatic after seeing him isolating himself and his abnormal behavior. The longer the Doctor's isolation continues, the more he struggles with his own soul, and one time, his ignorance causes his house to catch fıre. Doctor, who thinks he's been attacked, fıres all of the bullets his pistol has.

The sound of a man playing from the speaker has upset everyone in a pool.

A cabaret singer meets a man, marries him and quits her job, and soon has a child.

The story of Layla and Majnun.

War and life in a border camp between the Iraqi and Turkish borders.

An episodic film about 3 women suffer from the patriarch society.

An elderly man leaves his terminally disabled son to fend for himself when a planet approaches Earth and scares away all the cows.

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

This documentary shows the Zaar tradition in Bandar Lengeh in south of Iran. It is kind of local dancing and singing to exorcist the zaar from people who believe to be possessed by evil.

Living in the harsh conditions of the desert, two young brothers resort to a life of crime in order to survive. While one is dangerously involved with opium dealers, the other steals fuel from trucks then sells it back to the drivers. In the midst of an arid landscape, the pair pay little heed to their nefarious lifestyle. But as they interact with various people over the course of a single day, the brothers feel the winds of change in the air.

Toomaj manages to escape from the prison but when get back home he finds that his wife has been raped by an unknown person. This is only the beginning of the troubles as Toomaj begins to search for that person.

Salim Shaheen film from Afghanistan

Some of the first Iranian graphic designers talk about the history of graphic in Iran.

The story of a 55 years old man who is forced to stay the night at a house when his car is broken. He is then interrogated by 4 men...

Twenty years after their relationship ends, Atta and Nazanin reconnect. Atta, now a taxi driver, is completely besotted with cars, while Nazanin is now obsessed with dogs. However, this only scratches the surface of their vast differences. As they become embroiled in a complicated series of car chases and twists, it is uncertain whether the two will put aside their misgivings about one another. A comedic drama with plenty of thrills, this film offers something for all audiences.

A park keeper is having telepathy with busts of distinguished individuals of Rasht city.

Bozurzadeh, a businessman, has reached an age where he makes an excuse for his wife to travel alone and spend Eid with everyone she loves. But the sudden arrival of a young boy and his meeting with his secretary disrupts everything and troubles the eldest son from the night of Eid until the thirteenth.

Mina, the director of the film unveils a family secret about her grandmother's death. through a monologue with her grandmother, Mina shows the reality of domestic violence against women in Iran.

The war is surrounding an old man’s life who lives in middle of the sea.

HE tells the story of the birth and life of some mannequins. They are all created in the same way but their faith is not the same.

A story about normal people who have not lost themselves in today's narcissistic world.

Two brothers accept to marry their sister Maryam to their friend Hassan. But she is in love with another guy Hashem who is away. In her wedding night she lies to the groom and escapes to Hashem's mother house. The older brother gets her divorce from Hassan and goes after her to find her. On the other hand Hashem is back but with a wife. This put them all to confront each other.

Hanieh is a broke forty year old woman on the verge of being thrown out from her apartment. She has tried to make a film based on her own semi-autobiographical script for years, but after accepting that she has no luck to fulfill her dream, she has no other choice than selling the script to one of her best friends. Due to her love for the script and its details, Hanieh is not able to tolerate any indifferent and ignorant reactions during the preproduction, but she decides not to get involved in any conflict with the director, the cast and the crew today. However, during the reading rehearsal, others begin to judge her character as described in the script and name her a bastard and a loser...

Short film made with stop motion animation techniques.

Timez is a motorcycle courier who, while delivering a suit to a groom, falls down in an accident and gets the suit dirty. He decides to wash it himself and return it to its owner tomorrow. But in the course of events, the suit gets lost and

After a health crisis concerning her womb, a filmmaker contemplates her decision to not have children.

The First Stone is a 2009 film directed and written by Ebrahim Forouzeh.

Fereydoon is well known for honesty who neighbors give him their house key when they are on a trip. It gets complicated when his ex-con brother-in-law comes for a visit.

Mokhtar Namdar’s documentary ‘A House in Fog’ recounts the story of Soraya, who lives a life of solitude in a mansion in a hilly landscape. The house is the only reason she tolerates all the hardships of living alone in the wilderness.

Synopsis: Parveen's ex-wife Saber appears after 7 years of absence, the day after Parveen's wedding with Saman, and uses her daughter exclusively, but...