Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

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 boy loses his parent in an earthquake.

One of the Khan's sons notices a girl in the local market and chooses to marry her.

Experimental Short Film By Maryam Mortazavi.

Atheatre directed by Parsa Pirouzfar.

A couple's journey through their last day together before the wife's immigration to America.

In quarantine, a man and a woman play a married couple – husband and wife, and then change the roles.

A-Seyd Kazem, the guardian of the neighborhood, is the lover of his sister-in-law, Zinat. He rejects Zinat's suitors, including Teymour, until Davoud, the son of his old friend Jalal, comes to Tehran from Shiraz and becomes interested in Zinat.

An old couple is living in an apartment, the man is sleeping and the woman is doing housework. The lady wants to change the fish tank's water but it slips out of her hand and falls on the ground. They've run out of water and there's no water for the fish. But with the help of the man they find water for it.

A young man with a simple life gets caught up with a group of pleasure-seekers. These people use all sorts of tricks to lead naive young people astray. The young man's life becomes a plaything of gambling, a woman's beauty, and other deceptions of these individuals, and he only realizes it when he has wasted his youth in vain.

Nightmares are being distributed against a middle-aged woman in her hometown, accusing her of many crimes and sins, but an important secret is soon revealed.

Two brothers inherit a lot of wealth. One of them tries to get rid of his brother and use his money. When he fails to do so, he looks to abuse someone else using his brother to further his intentions. Eventually, the truth is revealed and he is arrested.

A plant goes through trials and tribulations to survive and thrive.

A Green Dot

The film is about a train carrying fuel for the army in 1979 during the revolution movement in Iran but with the help of revolutionary forces the train is redirected to a cold region of the...

Shi portrays the hardship of a traditional marriage.

The story is about the forgotten place of human in nature. Sudden rain in a modern city tries to remind people of this, but they all prefer to be in umbrella cages. During this story, a little girl can discover a new world created by rain and find that she is the king of this new world.

The Teacher without Master

A husband and wife, after several years of marriage, are unable to have children, and the husband decides to take another wife, until Baba Ali and his wife Golnaz come to work for them.

In the movie Between Staying and Going, when you see all the roads in front of you closed to continue your life, you are forced to do something unconventional.

Davood, Hossein, and Reza, are three schoolmates who have grown up together. Hossein has become an addict, Davood works as the chauffeur to a military general entangled in a political prisoner's ongoing trial, and Reza is part of a paramilitary group with the intention of punishing those who have imprisoned his comrades.

Cultural alienation of Iranian youth.

It tells the story of an old musician who suffers from a mental crisis after the death of his wife and has an appointment by the sea.

When embezzlement and betrayal are involved, no one is innocent. Mohsen and Sara are caught in a complex plot, where even Ali and the investigator each tell the truth in a different way.

Iranian comedy about a talking dog

A Traveler from Ganora is the story of an alien who comes to Earth and with the help of his friends, searches for the ruler of the planet Ganora who is lost on Earth to restore peace to their land.

A single mother takes a stand against her son’s school and Iran’s educational system when they accuse her boy of sexual abuse. She refuses to let her son or herself be victims any longer.

Manouchehr Khan and his fiancée injure an old woman in a village in a car, and when she escapes, the old woman, Ghanbar, is murdered ... Jamshid Mehrdad appeared in a negative role in the film.

Two gay partners bound by a forbidden love in Iran decide to illegally migrate to Italy. To cross the border, they must negotiate with a fiercely homophobic smuggler, turning their escape into a high-stakes confrontation. As pressures mount, one of them begins to doubt if he truly wants to leave his homeland behind.

A young videographer, is invited to a remote villa for a mysterious 24-hour film project. There, she meets two enigmatic women, Tina and Nazy, whose behavior grows increasingly manipulative and disturbing

Two people are working under the control of a computer and its orders.

Milad is a musician who lives with his phone's alarm reminders and compares himself to Freddie Mercury, the Queen singer, in search of his story and fate.

Experimental film "Presence has all the things that life can have in itself. But living as a stranger in today's arena, how much does it desire to communication?

People of a small town in northern Iran participate in a Great Lottery buying 800,000 tickets, while they are challenging some paradoxical problems such as charitable purposes, technocracy, gambling, religious limitations, economic difficulties and "high hopes".

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.

A couple who, after a long engagement, are finally ready to start their life together. The dowry is arranged and everything is ready for the family reunion the next day, but right on the eve of this event, an unforeseen problem occurs; a problem that throws all plans into disarray.

A man knows he will leave his homeland, so he starts documenting. After his departure, there are shifts in his life, but also stubborn constants.

A 68-year-old man is the last miller in his village who knows the techniques of building and repairing traditional Iranian windmills.

Amir, Nader, and Mansour are trying to raise money to treat a girl who lost her family in an accident and is suffering from a mental disorder.

On his wedding day, Nasser goes missing while the police are chasing a criminal by the name of "Samurai Nasser"...

Gholam learns that his son is seeing a woman named Pari. He goes to Pari and asks her to leave his son alone. However, it is not long before he himself becomes infatuated with her and abandons his own family. After that, Karim leads Gholam into drug addiction.

After five years of Marriage, she takes all the measures to undergo a transgender procedure when she realizes that she is pregnant and is faced with an important decision.

Old movie from Afghanistan

Siamak (Farzan Deljo) and Sisi (Darius) are failing to steal. Once upon a time, Siamak takes refuge in a church and faces Helga (Aylin Weigen) and her father (Arman).

Salim Shaheen film from Afghanistan

In this stunningly composed short film, the movement of a train and its arrival at Tehran’s central station is imaginatively edited in sync with maestro percussionist Hossein Tehrani’s mesmerizing use of the zarb.

The final days of the reign of the Shah: processions of mourning and jubilation, scenes after the fire in the Cinema Rex in Abadan, southern Iran, in which 377 viewers died; the famous interview with the Shah – shortly before his departure at Mehrabad Airport, followed by the acclaimed arrival and first speech by Ayatollah Khomeini; finally the graves of the martyrs of the revolution in Tehran’s large cemetery Behesht-e Zahra. Torabi and his cameramen film euphoric crowds and thoughtful revolutionaries, statesmen and members of various minorities such as Turkmen and Zoroastrians.

A weird courtship ceremony.

In the world of children, small changes cause them great anxiety. School is closed and all the children go home with their parents, but meanwhile, Hamid and Navid wait for their parents every day as usual. Hamid is more worried than Navid and blames his family.

A theater directed by Ali Shaneh Saz

Neda decides to smuggle narcotics out of Iran to solve her financial problems and the custody battle with her ex-husband over their young child. However, her inexperience leads to drastic medical problems that threaten her life. Unraveling over the course of a few hours, her deteriorating situation and her unlikely friendship with another smuggler create a tense, thrilling experience.