Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

A person called Ashoob wants to be famous. He want to be a important and respectful person so he doing everything for this purpose with no fear or regret.

Three women try to protect animals The subject of the film is Zanjumeh. One of these women builds a shelter and keeps stray dogs in the shelter by spaying them. He also opposes stray dogs due to his prejudice against his village.

The billionaire, Ardeshir Meshkin, looks for his lost grandson to grant him a fortune as heritage.

The story of this film is about a retired teacher who tries to collect his years of service [1.1.1, 1.4.1]. His goal is to provide the necessary funds to send his daughter to the house of fortune (providing a dowry or marriage expenses), and along the way he encounters humorous situations.

A perfect family is torn apart by the father's womanizing.

A man who emerges from a ruined and sandy civilization is captivated by the beauty of the stars and creates a new civilization in the heart of the mountain. In the process, he discovers art, but...

Anyone carries something with them, something that can be short and painful, sweet and long, and strange and lovely, but it does not matter. What’s important is Life. And the Moon which sees everything

Two young students want to go to Germany for a seminar on religion. The head of their seminary, called Haj Agha Frosti, blocks the way for them to travel. The young scholars, with the deceit of Hajj Agosti, get a visa for him and take him to Germany.

In the night of Iranian and Korean football on the way to the World Cup, Arash, a sports photographer, is involved with his child's illness. Diagnosis is a dyslexic surgeon.

Musa, takes Vahid, his cousin, on pretext of wood smuggling to a forest path, where their car accident with a doe opens up their past wounds.

Mr. Nader is a rich man who is very stingy when he enters the parking lot.

A marionette opera depicting the lives of the great Persian poets Rumi and his companion Shams. All of the dialogue is based off of the poetry of Rumi and Shams.

'When Everybody was Asleep' is the story of Bibi, a well loved, elderly midwife in a small village. When Bibi married, her husband promised to take her on a pilgrimage to Mecca, and, although he never forgot his promise, he passed away before he could keep it. After years of waiting, Bibi finally has the chance to make the pilgrimage, but her advanced age makes the journey more difficult than it ever was before

I was always looking for a golden pass in my life, but they didn't give me any, they kicked the ball in the goal. They became a sharp gazelle, I became a lion without a mane...

Part 4 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.

After killing a young woman during a protest, Abd is sent to a remote stable to hide his identity. When a newly arrived horse escapes into the wilderness, he is forced to track it down, only to encounter haunting signs that connect the animal to the woman he killed. As guilt and reality begin to blur, Abd is drawn into a strange and unsettling confrontation with his own violence.

An encounter between a young musician and a mysterious young woman who “works” as a scarecrow to “silence the birds,” and likes to spend time at the Armenian cemetery to talk with the dead.

Synopsis: Arash is one of the top four gamers in the world who entered a strange online game. Arash's family tries to protect him from the dangers of this game, but there is a bigger conspiracy ahead...

While Mansour is happily playing soccer on the beach, his father falls victim to gunfire between drug dealers and the water police, shot dead by a stray bullet. From then on, the enterprising lad takes on responsibility for his mother. Her dream is to open a café on the Iranian island of Hormuz, where she and her son lead a modest existence.

A village man comes across a piece of meat by chance , after cooking and eating it realises the uncanny taste that is unknown to him . The search to find the same taste leads to a catastrophic turn of events

Fa'ezeh is probably carrying a baby, but not of her own husband. And this pregnancy could have a very very big penalty in the place she lives.

Don is the story of a young boy desperate to find work to help support his family and his heroin-addict parents. Moving from employer to employer, Don, aged only 9 and illiterate, faces an almost impossible task without an identity card. From Don's point of view, the world is a tough place, but he is determined to make the most of his situation.

A young man named Nima is called to military service; But he, who wants to go to America as soon as possible, tries to get rid of his public duty by adopting different methods and creating humorous situations, to the point where his family center is on the verge of disintegration and...

A theater directed by Afsaneh Zamani

When an Iranian military commander is captured in enemy territory, the prisoners around him become pawns in a ruthless effort to uncover his identity. As pressure mounts, survival becomes a test of resolve and sacrifice in the face of unrelenting cruelty.

An Iranian musical theater version of Oliver Twist story that released at 2021.

Shokri is in prison because of a debt, he wasn't able to repay. One day during his day pass out of the prison he found a black purse full of money and he tried to find the owner, in order to return the money back. Shot in 2015.

Leader Ahmad Salehi and Sergeant Guilani fight smugglers in a southern village.

The film is a sobering, intimate and warm account of daily life in Kabul during the silent intervals between suicide bombings. The bombings that happened, and those that will, define life for the film's characters; a father who works as a bus driver, and two young boys whose policeman father is away due to murder threats.

Just one day from completing their military training, three conscripts desert their camp and escape into the frozen wilderness of Northern Iran. Travel through this mountainous, snowbound region is dangerous, but THOSE THREE opt for the independence it promises and must now forge their way through an uncertain landscape with only friendship to see them through. In this austere and mesmerizing debut feature, director Naghi Nemati's attention to the minutiae of human relationships is a quiet and deliberate meditation on the value of responsibility, connection and sacrifice.

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…

Three miners who survived the collapse of a mine decide to hide their deaths so that their families can claim compensation. Their clandestine life gradually leads to new crises: family tensions, a desire to start anew, and a search for identity that brings them all the way to Teheran. Meanwhile, Iranian authorities await proof of death…

Basiji battalion fighters Medhi and Abbas find themselves confronted with an enormous enemy war machine during an operation in this suspenseful war drama.

A middle-aged couple travels from a small town to Tehran with their young son to visit their friends and their daughter. However, both families, to hide their true age, make their young son and daughter appear as young children. Despite this, the son and daughter gradually fall in love, and after a while, their love is revealed, thus exposing the pretense of the adults.

A Lost Persian Film.

Mehdi is the only hearing child in a completely deaf family. Now, he is striving to become a professional voice actor and dubbing artist on his new path while navigating the challenges of his family's circumstance.

A youth heads to the city for a job, but after no luck, he ends up having to steal.

A short experimental movie about loneliness. in the modern times, everybody is alone . there is scenes of loneliness and silence...

After submitting his application to resign, a judge, Ata, seeks shelter in his family villa out of town. When his son, Farhad, a university student, is released from the prison, Ata experiences a cold reunion with the family while his wife, Giti, is filing for divorce. But a car accident, leading to the death of Farhad, and the paralysis of Giti, puts him in a game of concealing the truth from Giti and Vida, Farhad’s girlfriend – just as it has been constantly concealed since the time of the loss of another family member under the heavy steps of history in a country shaken by the public movements from time to time…

The story of personal and artistic life of the progressive Iranian director, Farrokh Ghaffari from himself in an interview in the last years of his life in Paris.

Story of a family who manufacture syringes, but a member of this family is afraid of injection and syringes.

A medical student in financial crisis and a love triangle.

The story follows the aftermath of the death of an old man, the body of whom is brought back to his home where he lived with only child, Sayeh (Mohadeseh Heyrat). Sayeh is made responsible for organising the funeral that, according to the religion, should happen as soon as possible. While the house is packed with relatives who are ready to follow the rituals, Mr. Ahmedi (Gholamreza Bagheri) from the university hospital delivers the will of the dead man, which states that his body should be donated to the autopsy room of the medical college. Sayeh should follow her father’s wishes, but she doesn’t agree.

A looping tale of possibilities, in which a bride-to-be repeatedly wakes up after being hit on the head and cannot remember whom she is supposed to marry. Realities shift, and the limits of truth become ambiguous.

A little girl goes place to place for collecting people's votes.

A religious woman shelters a young girl in her house based on the request of one of her friends. But in reality, the young girl is a boy who has undergone hormone therapy and wants to perform the sex change operation, and due to this reason, her family has threatened to kill her. The religious woman is in an unwanted situation after learning about the truth about the girl.

During the last months of the Iranian revolution in 1978, escaping opposition soldiers were hunted, but one soldier finds support in a chance meeting.

In a small desert village, the inhabitants are struggling with a drought. The efforts of the officials trying to find a solution fail, and villagers begin to leave. When they hold a Rain Prayer ceremony as a last solution, two orphans are asking a different prayer, praying that the rain not come. Every night, the stars in the sky blink down at the orphans through the hole in the roof, which has recently collapsed.

An accountant at a shoe factory finds himself in a moral bind when his little boy is diagnosed with a brain tumor.

"The young 'Yarvaran' , following the fall of his once-invincible father from a horse, takes on the responsibility of caring for and emotionally rehabilitating his father's shattered personality, as well as managing their life. He becomes a devoted nurse and sincere encourager until he finally succeeds in helping his father to mount the horse again and participate in the competition."

The documentary "Homa's Hamid" is about the life and work of two important artists in the field of theater and cinema in Iran, Hamid Samandarian and Homa Rousta.

Zahra is a middle-aged woman who uses a "temporary marriage" agency to hire Negar, a younger woman. Negar begins to suspect Zahra's intentions, but is she correct?

Qaem wanted to end his life but finds new spiritual paths. Day after day he collects samplings in order to plant them on the stony mountainside of Tehran and takes care of them. Hamid Jafari (The Rock, Award for the Most Innovative Short Film, VdR 2016) is back with a poignant work about a spiritual quest.

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A boy who inherits a massive fortune is raised by a well-digger after surviving his cousin's murder plot. In his youth, he crosses paths with his cousin once more, but this time a girl is caught in the middle—a girl born from the cousin's illicit affair with a village woman. Unaware that she is actually his own daughter, the cousin tries to snatch her away from the young man. However, the mother steps in just in time to reveal the truth, leading to the cousin finally facing justice.