Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

Several mysterious murders occur at a university, all of which involve girls. The police are desperately searching for one of the students until...

A young man named "Sia" who is struggling with many problems and financial pressures in the society, to solve them, he starts a new profession, a new job with high income but...

Roya is a swimming champion and coach whose wife blames her for an accident that happens to her daughter Raha...

Iran, where ideas of modesty and chastity are deeply ingrained from an early age. The film reflects on how these structures can cause trauma in adolescence, at a time when self-awareness and emotional exploration are still in their most fragile, formative stages.

A woman drifts between mental disarray and a crumbling reality, seeking meaning among the fading fragments of her world.

A theater directed by Hassan Majooni

A renowned reporter of the 9 PM news program on the national television of Numbfoul makes a sudden statement during a live broadcast, leading to the revelation of truths and ensuing chaos in the story that follows.

Women are like pearls in an oyster. A shell that may consist of nature, society, politics and religion and many other things. In this film, the strict rules that have been created for women's society in the world are analyzed and analyzed in the form of love.

First short film of Parsa Zahedi at the age of 12

In the village of "Dizaj Dol" near Iran's Lake Urmia, water scarcity has dried up wells and gardens. Farmers Kak Mohammad and Mashhadi Askar, who come from different backgrounds, are facing the environmental challenges in their own way. Kak Mohammad's well still has some water, but as the sea dries up, he can no longer feed his garden. Drought and salt storms bring disasters that lead to recession, unemployment and disease in the region. Villagers turn to prayer, each following his faith: Mashhadi Asgar and the Azaris hold a ceremony near the dried lake, while Kak Mohammad and the Kurds gather in mosques. Despite setbacks, Kak Mohammad persists with wedding plans for his son, but concerns about the future and the state of the lake persist.

Shahbaz, a taxidermist and animal smuggler, takes a road trip to deliver a strange order to a client. A series of unexpected events turns shahbaz from predator to prey.

A fantasy short animation about two kids near the seaside. A boy who sells alive fishes and a girl who sells drawings of free fishes in the sea .

In Iran, an elderly woman experiences hair loss due to aging. However, her husband forbids her from entering the kitchen fearing her hair might fall into the food. This film follows her journey to reclaim her own kitchen.

In the silent halls of Sulaymaniyah University, Hama's unique bond with a cadaver unfolds a touching exploration of life's impermanence and the mysteries of the afterlife.

A girl who lives alone in her house and is unable to communicate with the world around her, after taking a Self-Help course, invites the guy next door into her apartment.

Ali Nasseri, a biology teacher who has recently quit his addiction, goes back to his birthplace in the Province of Mazandaran after three years. Because of his father's good background he is returned to his teaching job. He takes a personal interest in the problems of a troubled student.

Aslan divorces his wife Mah Monir and marries Farangis. Barbod, Aslan's 11-year-old boy from Mah Monir, is very lonely. One day, Farangis calls Aslan with a scream. Aslan encounters the bloody body of his son at bathroom.

Say it before you are changed...maybe an owl. A young boy & girl get friends, but can't continue their relationship.

Alireza has been in prison for a long time. As he constantly gets in trouble, the prison warden suggests that Alireza should find a wife and settle down. To help him, the warden facilitates a meeting with Alireza’s own mother, who is also an inmate, so she can help arrange the marriage from within the prison.

Fearing family prejudices, Soraya an Iranian woman decides to immigrate illegally by smugglers.

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.

The Invisible Trap, directed by Fariborz Saleh, is a lesser-known film that was produced in the final year of the second Pahlavi government at the behest of the SAVAK.

Iranian horror movie from 1963.

An Iranian in his mid-20s struggles with everyday life. He is stricken with overpowering tiredness, everything is too difficult, the world an insurmountable obstacle course. The young man is suffering from a syndrome that used to be called neurasthenia and is today known as burn-out. He can't sleep, has neither strength nor courage and spends the night in his car. Life parked in a dead-end. Visually stunning and with an almost documentary feel, the film shows the man's life as a parable for the young generation in Iran.

A woman is stuck in a world full of stains, spots, and repetitive thoughts.

Gholam is released from prison and gets involved with Heydar, whose father, Morshed Zaman, was Paralyzed by Gholam . Gholam rapes Heydar's sister Azam in private...

The memory of death and memory of places. I go over the memory of my own passing. The places I've been to review my past and remind me of my memories.

At the beginning of their shared life, Sharif and Tahmineh live on an island, and after a while, their relationship ends in separation.

A young villager loves the landlord's daughter, while his sister is in love with the landlord's son. The landlord is initially furious about this, but later agrees to his son marrying the village girl. He tells the young villager that he will only agree to his marriage to his daughter if he earns a lot of money. The young villager manages to get the money during an incident. However, the landlord's daughter falls ill from missing the young villager. The landlord searches for the young man. Eventually, he finds him and, dropping his earlier condition, agrees to their marriage.

The story shows both the chaos happening outside and the emotional struggles of the characters inside.

Hamid is a successful boxer who a girl is interested in and gives him a car as a gift. Siamak, Hamid's former friend, has become addicted and crosses paths with Hamid's father, who is a doctor. Father and son help Siamak regain his health and continue his favorite sport, boxing. Some time later, Hamid and Siamak become interested in a girl named Maryam. Maryam is interested in Hamid, but Siamak asks Hamid to fight on the ring for Maryam's sake, and the winning opponent marries Maryam.

Fati is the maid favored by the master and hated by the lady of the house, and in the end, the lady of the house gets her way and fires Fati, leaving her unemployed.

Filmed during the confinement period in Iran, Fishhead captures fragments of daily life as time stretches and routine becomes absurd. Through minimal gestures and static compositions, the film transforms isolation into a poetic study of silence, repetition, and the fragility of existence.

a woman confronts the devil who tries to tempt her

Two close friends meet again after six years in a remote cabin, but beneath this friendly reunion lies a buried secret, and its revelation will be deadly

Rahil Mohajer was buried alive by her husband and her father on her wedding night because they thought she wasn't a virgin.

A story after 60 years from The House Is Black by Forough Farrokhzad.

The Circle (2019)

A Documentary about Ali Dehbashi (Persian: علی دهباشی). He is an Iranian journalist, Iranologist, researcher and writer. Dehbashi is the writer and editor-in-chief of Bukhara magazine, a periodical magazine on arts and culture in Persian published in Tehran.

Islanders are going to sell 4 horseshoe crabs that have a very precious blood, but a girl named Shafa decides to save the animals from death.

“The Savior” tells the story of a little kid who is traumatized following the death of her mother. After the tragic incident, the child cannot stand the death of other living creatures. her father is a fisherman. when the man brings home the fish, he notices that his daughter takes them back to the sea. she says she needs to save them as they are dying.

Homo Sapiens Project (201) was completed in 2021 as part of re-envisioning and restructuring Rashidi's filmography. This nineteen-hour experimental feature is constituted from many feature films produced between 2002 to 2014. These experimental features were made as a type of test or trial experiment. Rashidi assembled the films from footage accumulated over the years, archival footage, found footage and rushes donated by his close collaborators.

This interview-based documentary is made on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Aydin Aghdashloo, Mohammad Ehsaei and Abbas Kiarostami, and deals with "aging" from the point of view of these three prominent friends and artists.

It has been 10 years since the international community and local entities’ initiated their efforts towards the elimination of violence against women, the women of Afghanistan are still suffering victims of violence and lawlessness. The Taliban, no longer in power, is present in the shadows, and their brutal practices and policies towards women, especially in the countryside, are still profoundly visible. “Violence Against Women – 10 Years On” explores how, and why, this recurrent atrocity against women in Afghanistan continues to rise despite government and international community efforts to implement the law on the elimination of violence and the establishment of a High Commission for the Prevention of Violence against Women.

Four old friends gather a few months after the entrance exam, on the pretext of the birth of one of them who was not accepted in the entrance exam and is now going to serve in the army, and decide to have fun one night. But in the city, instead of finding a place to have fun, they encounter other places!

Award winning short documentary that demonstrates women's problems in Afghanistan. The film consists of 3 parts: 1. The women who are self-immolating and the reasons of self-immolation. 2. Underage marriages. 3. Those sorts of women who are referring to attorney for solving their family problems.

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.

it's farhad's birthday and he goes back home from work, waiting for a suprise

Aras with the help of his sister and some friends takes hostages in an exchange shop demanding for the release of his friend who is in prison and is about to be executed.

A young man is sitting next to a river and he starts fishing.

Pari is Zackaria Hashemi's short film

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.

A taxi driver finds a ticket at the end of his work in a taxi and finds that the ticket has won a prize of 100,000.