Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

A theater directed by Arvand Dasht Aray

A robotic truck driver, on a dirt road, is replacing old wooden power poles with new concrete ones when he hits two birds.

Borzoo is in love with Maryam and they want to get marry while his niece Zohre is in love with another guy Amir. Borzoo gets marry with Maryam but the troubles begin for all when other people too intervene between them.

This film tells the story of a shoemaker named Ostad Noboi who has been selling his products for many years. But after the marriage of his daughter Laiya with Nasser, who is his student, because of his opposition to this marriage, he kicks his student out of the shop and can no longer maintain his brand as before. Their sons also each to...

The story of a woman who has a fanatical husband, but tries to not make her daughter's future look like her own.

A picture in an old newspaper sends director and film enthusiast Alireza Rasoulinejad on a mission to the Iranian city of Sirjan to find the Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood.

A look at the forgotten name of the match and its events in Iran

The war between Iran and Iraq is raging. Near the border on the Iranian side, an old man takes care of martyrs’ graves by the little cabin where he lives with his wife and grandson, while the boy’s father is fighting in the war. Suddenly one day, their home is invaded by a wounded Iraqi officer and two of his subordinates. They desperately need care and a place to hide. The intruders and the little family do not understand each other’s language, the tone is aggressive and an intense, life-and-death chamber play ensues.

Dawn of the Capricorn, made by Ahmad Faroughi Kadjar (Qajar) in 1964, is a strange composition that looks at the stagnated situation of a country suspended between the old world and the modern era. Nevertheless, while its aim is clear, the message is vague and up to interpretation. Wherever it casts its eye, Faroughi’s camera tries to register this somehow cynical dichotomy. It begins in a theater house in the old city of Isfahan that has staged Shakespeare’s Othello. There is no attentive audience and the players are detached and exhausted. A young man from amongst the audience begins a long journey into the web of narrow alleys of Isfahan and ends up in the main mosque of the city where he meets a young girl. Despite the initial chaotic situations, from its halfway point, the film begins to render a silent observation of a night that will end at the break of dawn.

Farhad (Vafa) and Marguerite (Shahrzad Armani) have been interested in each other since their school years, but one is muslim and the other one is christian...

Khadijeh, an elderly Kurdish woman from Iran, has two pressing tasks - one, to care for a stork whose wings were injured by high-voltage wires and left behind; and two, to dissuade her daughter from emigrating to the UK. In her mind, there is no contradiction between helping the wounded bird migrate and preventing her own daughter from migrating. It’s just that they cannot be achieved by willpower alone. And of the two, changing her daughter’s mind is far more difficult.

The life of Ramin,, a 40 - year - old screenwriter, is transformed by the arrival of a 8 - year - old boy called تپلی. but he is too familiar to the man

A Documentary about Kianoush Ayari by Shahram Mokri

Part 2 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.

The story of the animation focuses on historical themes, moral heroism, and its events take place in Khorazm, one of the cities of ancient Khorasan in the eighth century AH. The central character in the story of Pahlavan Pouria Vali is a famous poet, mystic and athlete of Iran. Pouria has a job as a blacksmith and is the owner of the only zurkhaneh in the city, where he teaches the manners and ethics of chivalry and heroism and wrestling techniques to his students.

Going through the town searching for her mother’s buried books, Kimia tries to tackle the fear she has inherited from her mother. In this journey, she needs to find herself through the mirrors of others.

Yahya is a middle-aged man who lives in a small town, a place where he can hide and forget his past, connected to the repression in Iran. One day, his son Nima leaves the house and disappears. Gradually, he distanced himself from Marta, his lover, and sought refuge alone. So, the police department calls and informs that a body that cannot be identified has been found, and Yahya is convinced that his son ran away because he found out his secret. To find him, Yahya will have to face his memories.

A documentary about Mehdi Sahabi. Mehdi Sahabi was an Iranian translator, painter, and writer. Born in the provincial Iranian capital of Qazvin in 1944.

The scales of justice are going to be unveiled during a public ceremony, unaware that the scales are out of balance.

Based on the famous Layla and Majnun story.

United Nations assistance mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in collaboration with Radio and television Afghanistan produced a series of documentaries that explores the last decade of efforts by UN agencies and international community to help Afghanistan rebuild the country. The documentary series examines the challenges, achievements and failures of these efforts and programmers by focusing on the most important issues such as women, police force, peace, drug, education, human rights, election, health, and children.

Valiasr Street, seventeen kilometers long, connects the south of Tehran to the north and the Alborz mountain range. When this street was built, the parties decorated it with more than 60,000 plane saplings. But today, only about eight thousand plane trees are standing on this street.

Directed by Esmail Kushan.

Against the backdrop of war, Iraq's football team defies the odds, uniting a nation and achieving the impossible by becoming the Champions of Asia in 2007.

A wealthy man marries a young woman named Shirin. Sohrab, who is in love with Shirin, abducts her and takes her to his own tribe, and assigns a young affluent man named Khosrow to bring his wife back to him.

A wealthy man has a child with a village girl. The wealthy man, without letting his son into his family, watches him from afar. Years later, his legitimate son goes from the city to the village where his brother lives. The village young man loves a girl who soon also becomes the object of affection for his city brother. After a series of events, when the two brothers learn of their kinship, they forgo conflict with each other, and the village brother finally ends up with the girl he loves.

A girl is still grieving the loss of her mother when she's hit with another blow: a jealous and mean stepmother.

Babaee, who always reads Owl The Hero magazines about flying, has a dream of flying and wants to fly like a bird. Bebaee in the dream of flight is taken from the 2D animation series Babaee and Babaoo, which was one of the popular works of Pooya network .

Show of the nights of Kish by Hamed Anghii

A man and a woman having an extramarital affair spend a night together at her house, but the relationship changes when the man's wife is arrested during street protests that same night.

The girl who looking for someone to tell him, her tormenting secret.

At the End of the Day by Babak Bahrambeygi

Jacob's family worries about Farrokh, the son of the family. Farrokh left Iran to continue his studies but he has not been in touch with them for a long time. Jacob travels to Sweden to look for his son.

To earn money and send it to his family in a nearby city, Jomeh, a young boy, and his friend collect the metal wastes remaining from the wartime.

A day before an execution of a man

The Pretender is a short animated documentary that revisits the life of Attar of Nishapur during the Mongol invasions of the 13th century. Blending cinema with architecture and rock music, the film follows a symbolic journey through the Seven Cities of Love, where Attar reflects on the mystical insights of Sufi philosophy.

video report of the 2nd Asian international trade fair ran from 5 to 24 October 1969 in Tehran-Iran.

When Iranian actress and director Pegah Ahangarani (1984) was growing up, she thought every soldier she saw on television might have been her father. During her earliest years he was fighting at the front, and a portrait of Khomeini hung in a prominent place in the house. But one day the image of the Ayatollah disappeared without explanation and another photo took its place.

The film tries to examine the ups and downs of this profession by talking to the stars of yesterday and today in cinema and reviewing some relevant images. In this documentary, people like Farideh Naseri, Reza Arham Sadr, Bahman Mofid, Behrouz Vosoughi, Reza Beyk Imanverdi and many others are seen.

From Afghanistan, little is known but a few cliches, the word Taliban, and a war that seems to have never ceased since the Soviet era and its new turn taken since 2001. A country devastated in a state of permanent conflict, a population deeply marked: how to do it justice? Equipped with her only camera, reconnecting with her beginnings on documentaries, the director embraces the beautiful ambition to reach the intimate heart of the country.

This film is a modern rendition of a long tradition of so-called “symphonies of a metropolis”. The glassy facades of this city’s skyscrapers reflecting the passing by people of its diverse districts, shown in the reflection of distorted mirrors, symbolically depict the Spirit of a metropolis, as if it lives in its own shadows and reflections. This distorted reflection of Tehran comes together with modern verses of a poet who was known as the Poet of Tehran after publishing his illustrious cycle of poems about Tehran in the 60s. As a flâneur, the poet himself saunters around this city -through his voice/poem/memory- reflecting upon the reflections of old/modern monuments, sculptures, statues etc. of this giant metropolis.

A small child and her elderly neighbor are having all kinds of small adventures in the streets of Tehran to get a sack of rice.

Four cousins intend to marry each other, but their uncle confesses that due to a grudge against his strict brother, he swapped one of the girls with his brother's son. In reality, the bride and groom are siblings. Thus, the bride and groom are swapped so that this marriage can proceed.

Arash's family is so rich, even a thief broke into their house! 9-year-old Ali, being jealous, wants to impress his friends too, so he hatches a plan… to stage his very own pretend break-in!

A girl pretends to be Mitra, the fiancée of Morteza Khan, the owner of a coffee shop. After some time of them socializing and wedding preparations being made, the real Mitra arrives in Tehran from Europe. The embarrassed girl leaves Morteza's house, but Morteza, who has fallen in love with her, follows her, finds her, and marries her.

A propaganda Basij member named "Qasem" (Alireza Eshaghi) is sent to the front. Although his job is to promote and take pictures of scenes of fighters clashing with Iraqi soldiers, he goes to the front lines to help. His camera films the entire incident.

Hojat, who lost his only brother in the war, suffers from not being by his side in his final years and orders a plaque in his memory to console himself. Soon, the company that Hojat successfully ran runs into financial trouble. His efforts to resolve this problem provide him with an opportunity to go back in time and review his and his brother's lives.

Khodadad, who is interested in gold, is expelled from the village due to his foolishness. A group of smugglers mistake Khodadad for their boss at the capital's train station because of their resemblance. They intend to kill a man named Mansour Khan. When Khodadad meets Mansour Khan and his daughter, he warns the daughter that the idle young men surrounding her are not good friends for her. Mansour Khan approves of Khodadad's behavior and promises to go to Khodadad's hometown and ask the headman to agree to his marriage with Gold. The smugglers plant a bomb in Mansour Khan's car, and after realizing Khodadad's resemblance to their boss, they tie Khodadad's hands and feet and imprison him in the basement of a building. Khodadad frees himself and, after saving Mansour Khan, traps the smugglers for the police.

A tractor driver on the wealthy man's farm is getting attention from the family's three daughters, but he's in love with the eldest daughter.

A short film from Iranian director Karim Lakzadeh.

The issue of this social- sport documentary is about the football team of Bandar Anzali has a special culture and base among the inhabitants of this city and the province of Guilan, and in fact this team is inspired by the people of Anzali.

The forest loses its peace with the arrival of a young man searching for a forester.

A documentary that details the lives of Babak and Ahmad Ahmadpour 30 years after they starred as amateur child actors in Abbas Kiarostami's Koker Trilogy.

Rumor has it that the biggest earthquake ever is going to happen in town in a few days, everyone is leaving except one guy.

Tehran makes you fall in love.

Twelve hours before an atomic bomb hits the ground of Tehran, a boy rushes through the house of a girl while remembering their moments together.

Taliban demanded the handover of the Afghan immigrants who have political cases from Iran, Germany, and France by publishing a statement. Leila and her Iranian friend Mohammad are worried about returning her to Afghanistan.