Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

A theater directed by Amer Mosafer Astaneh

Ra'na dreams of owning a motor boat. But she can't buy it by fishing and selling the caught fish...

"Nowruz, Tehran's Time" is about Nowruz rituals in Tehran. While touring and watching the Nowruz rituals in Tehran, the film takes a look at the background of this ceremony in Tehran through conversations with Professor Abdullah Anvar, Jahangir Hedayat, Faranak Salvar and Azam Iranpour. In this film, we also see pictures of old Tehran.

A nurse accidentally causes the death of a patient.

It's about a young computer genius who is kidnapped by a gang of criminals and

A teacher tells the story of Shangool and Mangool to her young students during a recreational outing. The lion, as the king of the jungle, organizes a competition between the wolf and the fox, where each must provide him with a delicious meal as quickly as possible to earn his employment. The wolf and the fox kidnap the kids of the goat ...

A director tries to make a film about an acid-attack victim.

A little girl wants to sell the television in her house, however her mom relies on it to calm herself down.

In the dark and under the sunlight , They making snowman with paper , iron and oneperson melt it in the darkness.

Aynaz, the daughter of Atlan, has seven suitors. Atlan announces that every single one of them can marry her if he manages to win her red scarf in a horse race ...

After learning that his father has been injured on the front, he sets off for the war zone. One of his father's comrades accompanies him on this journey. The two go to the front line and...

Three young guys whose cabaret act has really taken off are facing two problems: first, there's an old, bankrupt businessman who's found out his daughter, studying in Europe, thinks he's still rich and is planning to come to Tehran with her fiancé. The old man is super upset about her finding out the truth. The second problem is a blind, lost girl they're trying to earn enough money to get treatment for.

A woman's husband experiences misfortunes due to his neglect of his wife and children.

Cinema came to lead humanity to salvation, Christ-like, akin to a wild horse... and on this path, it faced many hardships and was ultimately destroyed by the forces of evil. However, it had previously promised a second coming; this time, in a different form and on a different path...

A young teacher, a tutor, enters the school and tries to make friendly relations with his pupils. His relations with a student, one of whom is from an unsuitable family, is more than equivalent to the ensure that he should oppose the headmaster in a school play.

A young man suffers from severe toothache. On his visit to dentist, the doctor refuses to help him and the querrel ends up in a tragedy.

A boy finally succeeds, after many attempts, to pick a fruit from the tree. In the face of his constant efforts, every time a daydreamer makes fun of him.

When a man finds out that his beloved daughter has been kidnapped by a group, he chases them everywhere, and after the adventures, he finally saves the girl and realizes that the girl's kidnappers are the same hints that her parents killed.

Story of a naive rural man who tries to improve his life, so he comes to the capital: Tehran. But there are some events that makes him to get familiar with the city life and push him to choose living the simple life in the village.

Majid Majidi’s emotional journey in the refugees camps of Afghanistan before and after the Taliban.

Agha Moochool, the entertainer, amuses the neighborhood kids with dancing and singing.

A man with a wife and children often spends his time carousing and gambling with a cabaret woman.

Tales of a man who carries a Persian Onager in his blood, a mother who drips honey from her body, and a writer who believes pollination is the key to salvation.

Anger, bullets and blood were the only things they gave us. Suffocation. Fight, fight, fight! Cruelty in the world will not last and finally one day the sun will rise and the darkness will disappear.

The story of short film "Picking Down" is about an old woman and a child who lives in an abandoned village. The boy is lonely for days and longs for a playmate. Meanwhile, the sleeping grandmother will die soon and asked her grandson, who lives in another village, to bring her a shroud...

A man and a woman, including a high-ranking army officer, a prostitute, a fake doctor, and a drug smuggler who were active against the people before the revolution, lure the captain of the barge to let them cross the water border. A young worker is also with the passengers who are going to find work in Arab countries. Along the way, he becomes interested in the officer's daughter. The captain of the barge disembarks them on a deserted island. As the water rises, they find themselves facing death, and with great effort, they return to the barge and confront the captain and the workers. When a group of people from both sides starts to fight, they lose their lives. The officer's daughter and the young worker are the only people who survive this group. After a while, the two meet in a boat and, seeing the tricolor flag of Iran from afar, they realize that they are returning to their country.

Bram Chakhan (Saeed Rad), who was in a car accident during his teenage years that caused the death of his friend Bijan, is tormented by a guilty conscience...

Inside a polished apartment, a pious man leads a double life. By day, he’s the image of virtue; by night, drawn into a world of desire and denial. But when a single test reveals the truth, the safe house begins to fall apart.

Moving on After grief or loss, we moved on.

It seems like there's something worse than saying goodbye; something like not having the chance to say goodbye.

A Lost Persian Film. The young man saves a rich girl from drowning at sea, and this incident leads to an acquaintance and then a mutual love. The girl hires the young man as her steward. The girl's stepmother falls in love with the young man, but the young man pays no attention to her. To attract her attention, the stepmother resorts to magic and gives her a potion that causes madness. The young man escapes and the girl pursues her. A storm breaks out, so severe that the house catches fire and the stepmother is also burned in it. The young man falls from the mountain and, due to a blow to the head, regains his senses, finds his daughter, and from then on they begin a peaceful life together.

A young worker is infatuated with the factory owner's daughter.

In a world where gender roles have been reversed, a man named Erfan faces new challenges that force him to change his perspective on himself and his surroundings. The story revolves around Erfan's struggle to accept his true identity and his resistance against social expectations

In a city ravaged by war, a brave woman struggles with a heart-wrenching dilemma. Torn between her deep love for her husband, a soldier on the front lines, and an intense, forbidden romance with a young woman, she finds herself caught in a whirlwind of passion and guilt. As she anxiously awaits news of her husband’s fate, she battles with secret desires that he may never return, freeing her to embrace the love that society forbids. This powerful film explores the complexities of love, loyalty, and the human heart in the darkest of times.

A young man living in a wealthy family, seeing his parents going through a divorce due to disagreements, arranges a series of events to make them forget their differences and start a new life together.

A critical look at the westernization of the rural culture

The documentary "Hidden half of the moon" is a retelling of the presence of Iranian women in the Constitutional movement from the beginning to the Pahlavi era. This documentary also shows old pictures and photographs related to the Constitutional movement and discusses what Iranian women did and where they were in the Constitutional movement and what their role was in the first popular movement in the Middle East.

Puppets made of pliable material, impart the following message : your companion should be a worthier person than yourself so that he can impart knowledge and virtue to you.

The story of Zal and Rudabeh is a romantic tale from Shahnameh, the epic book of the Iranians. It narrates the love between Zal, the son of Sam, and Rudabeh, the daughter of Mehrab of Kabul.

A theater directed by Hossein Tabrizi

An upcoming short film starring and written & directed by Ainaz Azarhoush.

Manzar, a woman set in her rigid ways and beliefs, has been ostracized by her family and now ekes out a lonely existence. One day, she suddenly receives a call from her sister: her niece has been arrested for not wearing a hijab. Despite implorations from her family, Manzar sticks to her fundamentalist beliefs - her niece, an unbeliever, ought to be punished for the sin she’s committed. Finding herself all alone in a changing world, and increasingly racked by fear and guilt, Manzar begins to pray for heavenly deliverance.

A woman's ability to give birth to marine creatures is exploited for commercial purposes.

A woman struggles with heartache, truth, acceptance and revenge under the shadow of misogyny.

An Iranian woman faces an impossible dilemma because lesbians aren’t allowed to give birth to a child.

Directed by Mohammad Hatami.

The story is about a lesbian couple. One Iranian and the other Afghan. The Iranian government wants to execute them for the crime of homosexuality. They are forced to leave the country to escape the execution.

A man opens the door.

In the not-too-distant future, loneliness is rampant in the modern lifestyle: humans have become hunched over technological devices and their field of vision has shrunk to digital screens. A man leading a monotonous life happens to notice that nature still exists.

The celebrated Iranian photographer, Nasrollah Kasraian and his wife, anthropologist Ziba Arshi, have documented many unique populations living within the borders of Iran. This film provides a fascinating look at the Turkmans of Iran, who live in small villages northeast of Teheran, near the Afghanistan border. It examines how Turkman society has changed over several years. Devil on the Roof captures varied aspects of their traditional culture. It shows how shamans treat physical and mental illnesses with music, sticks and swords. It depicts the women's roles - raising children, working in the rice fields and weaving magnificent rugs and clothing. Four years after the initial filming, the filmmakers return to the Turkman villages where they find radical changes have occurred.

A pregnant woman is renting a house out of town with her husband to avoid air pollution and the harmful frequencies of urban space, on the first night they move to their new home, an anonymous person calls them and warns them to leave as soon as possible.