Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

A rural, young girl, as a nurse, enters the house of an old army man, who is dying. After a long time, the old man's instinctive feeling is aroused by the presence of a young girl so that both of them face an unpredictable relationship

A boy starts a surreal journey when he walks into a bizarre house where he encounters a series of dream- like incidents that leads him to death. However, when he resurrects, he must encounter his own inevitable truth.

The film was made in response to the first weeks of Corona quarantine. When we were all locked up in our homes.

The film casts a young Afghan boy who lives with his younger sister and grandmother in Kabul. He sells water and cold drinks for a life. His life is subject to different forms of social discrimination at school and at the community. He has passion for football, later on explored to perfection by his football coach. He not only brings joy to his teammates in Afghanistan but embarks on a chance to play in an international event, The Homeless World Cup in Melbourne, Australia. The film shows how he has paid the price of losing his parents to a terrorist attack in Kabul. The film closes with a rare moment of sporting pride for Afghans; a title win and return home

In a remote village between the rocky mountains in Kurdistan, everyone is in love with football, but there is no plain field to play the game. The children decide to climb up the mountain in order to find somewhere to play the game.

Is it death? Or life is going on?

Hassan who is a skint wants to pay back the debt of his father to Malek Salman who is a fraud. In a virtual world Hassan became an imaginary person but the love of Malek Salman's daughter is hindering him from continuing on his mission.

Taha, a ten years old, is involved in a play in which children imitate their parents' roles. Living with his divorced mother, Taha understands new things about his mom by playing her role.

Arman is a young man about to go to military service. On the day of his enlistment, he calls his cousin Saeed to arrange a fun day with him. In the meantime, they meet a young girl named Maryam and

A recently married woman plans to leave her hometown and start a new life in Tehran. A tragic event in the family interrupts her plans and means she has to stay put for longer than she had anticipated. A theft, a case of mistaken identity and a terrible accident all come together to produce a dark and gritty narrative in this gut wrenching drama.

A young man in the village spends a few days in a garden instead of his uncle. On a rainy night, strange creatures mistake the garden for grandma's house and take refuge there.

Two crane drivers, one young, one old, are waiting to start work together for the first time. The older driver is an ex-teacher, standing in for the usual driver; he is afraid he may be found out...

“From This” is a permanent cycle. This video intended to be timeless in its original action plan, to be played constantly in a particular place, with a TV, a player and a power generator.

A scrap of women wrestler’s lives in Iran

Documentary about Babak Bayat (Persian: بابک بیات)(13 June 1946 – 26 November 2006). Babak Bayat was an Iranian songwriter and film score composer. He was repeatedly nominated for the Crystal Simorgh award in the field of the soundtrack at the Fajr Film Festival and received this award twice in 1991 and 1997.

A young man falls in love with a girl, but his father opposes the marriage. The young man's servant devises measures to soften the girl's father's heart, but the young man, who is very simple, reveals everything. This story is repeated several times, and finally the father consents to the marriage.

Mr. Radmanesh, an elderly and wealthy man who lost his wife in an accident, lives alone. His two children reside abroad. According to doctors, death is imminent for Radmanesh. Taking advantage of this, one of his friends, Ahmadi, arranges for his daughter, Pari, to marry Radmanesh so that after his death, they can seize his wealth and properties.

A theater directed by Shahab Hosseini

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The Last Day is the story of a mother whose son is in prison. While they console their grief by sharing the last meal she brought, outside the room, bored prison staff are preparing the execution.

A naughty young boy shoots the ball sadistically at his disabled grandfather after being left alone with him. Mother punishes him after discovering what happened, but the aunt’s intervention makes him ponder what the family may mean and how his aggressive mother made him blindly angry

Rahmaneh spent her first two decades fully veiled, like her mother Elahe, as part of a deeply religious family. Now 37, she is at the forefront of Iran's protest movement and at odds with her father and the culture he created. This film shows her struggle to maintain the family bond across three generations, as it cracks under the pressure of politics.

Eesa and Mokhtar, who work at the mine, argue; Eesa pushes Mokhtar and makes him fall. Mokhtar's oxygen tank starts leaking without anyone noticing. Eesa finds methane and saves several people but Mokhtar dies from lack of oxygen in his bottle. Eesa is torn and must make a choice: lie, which would make him a hero, or confess everything and carry the burden of having killed Mokhtar.

Afandi and Pashandi quarrel all the time. However, at a critical moment, the neighbors put aside their differences in order to slay the dragon, fight back the wolves and protect the princess — and all that sort of stuff.

My dear mother, dear friend and wife, dear sister, I will leave to pursue my life, destiny, and end. With the memories of you and all my friends, I will continue my life in a different manner. Countless kisses to all my friends throughout my life.

This film is about the new teaching method that Mohammad Bahman Beigi has used to teach to All Nomadic Children.

...and God created heaven and hell, good and evil, angels and daemons... but he also started all these miseries. Does truly the universe have a wise and spiritually pure creator?!

Association of Ideas...

Pasha and Morteza are classmates. Due to a fun game after school, they face a bad accusation. Sometimes lying is more acceptable.

Salim Shaheen film from Afghanistan

One of the stories of the film is that when the Pope was elected in the Vatican, if he was Nigerian and black, a particular incident would have happened in our film. This film tells the story of the black life that had been forced many years ago to "emigrate" from their homeland, They have moved away from poverty and humiliation, illness and death, poverty and helplessness Not to be slave and disillusioned, and their rights are in line with the White. The film's story revolves around the members of a family and their problems.

Lives of children living near a train station changes when they watch a Western film on a newly arrived TV set...

This film is about one of the days of the Iranian Revolution, 14th of Aban 1357 (November 5th, 1978), the day Tehran was set on fire. From the beginning questions arose about who set the buildings on fire, SAVAK or the demonstrators. What can be understood from the footage remaining from the events of the day?

A documentary about the poems and poetic life of Heydar Yaghma, the brickmaker from Neyshabur

A young doctor whose body cells have become colorless one day feels that he is invisible. He makes his loved ones aware of his situation, and at this point, a group tries to save the young doctor, and some try to obtain the formula for the cells to become colorless. In the meantime, incidents occur, and finally, the young doctor succeeds in regaining his normal state.

Iranian drama film

Nasrin, a doctor named Ahmad's wife, dies in the operating room.

The newlyweds' return is met with two incidents: first, the groom's uncle returns from a trip to Paris, and then a woman is brought into the house by the servant for a romantic encounter. With the arrival of the bride, groom, and uncle, the servant hides the woman. This woman plays an important role in the family because the uncle's ex-wife was the groom's lover. The uncle and the groom find out about the affair one after the other, and numerous events unfold.

In a country where readership is low, Nahid Rezaei is surprised to see constant new titles in bookshops, most of them being translations of foreign texts. She begins to narrate the tale of translation in Iran: starting in the ancient era and ending with translators of today. Along the way she interviews key figures in Iran's modern translation history.

A woman marries a man after the death of her husband and sends her twelve-year-old son to America. After a while, the woman becomes ill and asks her niece to send a letter to her child, requesting that he come to Iran to visit his mother...

A lone woman writes to find refuge in literature – where the power of words meets the power of dreams...

A Documentary about Houshang Moradi Kermani (Persian: هوشنگ مرادی کرمانی; born 7 September 1944 in Sirch, a village in Kerman Province, Iran). Moradi Kermani is an Iranian writer best known for children's and young adult fiction. He was a finalist in 2014 for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Iran, 16 September 2022. Mahsa Amini dies after being beaten by the morality police. Demonstrations follow, bringing together thousands of women severely repressed by the regime. Narges Kahlor explores the videos of these revolts published on social media, paying tribute to these defenders of the people armed with telephones.

A self-portrait of Baktash Abtin during the Covid Pandemy.

A simple worker of the train station is arrested and send to Tehran because of his fighting against Shah's regime. His wife and son Milad come to Tehran to find him but this is only the beginning of their story.

A man, a woman, and the man who believes he has seen the woman before.

Ali learns through medical documents the sudden recurrence of his son's incurable genetic disorder. Deciding to hide the matter from the rest of the family, he finds himself helpless and starts behaving strangely.

A female Kurdish-Norwegian sniper returns to the battlefield she once escaped, driven by vengeance and by the desperate hope of rescuing her younger sister, still imprisoned by ISIS in Mosul.

International smugglers hide some smuggled diamonds in a Citroën car belonging to several tourists to retrieve them later at an opportune moment.

Mohsen Shabrang, a broke and street-roaming young man, meets a wealthy woman named Mahin and marries her.

Two young couples who have gathered for a night out suddenly notice strange happenings in their house. Events that are so terrifying and unbelievable that they leave the house in fear. But they are strangely locked in the house and...