Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

A young teacher who travels to a village for teaching, finds out about a couple that are in love and tries to help them.

Abdullah is sentenced to death for Hossein's murder but manages to escape. He travels through many cities and eventually finds a clue about Hossein in Abadan. He discovers that Hossein is alive and living in secret. Abdullah informs the police about what happened, thus saving himself from the death penalty.

A young Iranian singer risks everything to return from overseas to see her father and perform a secret concert. But when she’s arrested, she faces a life-altering choice: flee the country or stay and fight for her art and her people.

A young girl decides to go to a forbidden party.

A girl named Ghazal who lives abroad and comes to one of the cities of Iran to sell her grandfather's inheritance. When she arrives in the city, she encounters unexpected events until...

A simple mine worker meets and gets to know his boss's daughter. This acquaintance later deepens and turns into love. The mine owner's foreman, who intends to seize the master's wealth, opposes this relationship and tries to create discord with intrigues. Finally, the truth is revealed, and he loses his life in one of his own plots.

Shahin, fed up with the oppression and injustice of the Caliph's agents against his compatriots, is tasked by Tahir Dhul-Yaminayn, a supporter of Ma'mun, to go to Baghdad and, with the help of Iranians, fight against the Caliph. At the same time, Shahin learns that the Caliph's agents have set fire to an Iranian village where his cousin and fiancée, Shahrzad, and her brother, Behzad, live, taking them captive to the Caliph's court. Shahin sets off for Baghdad and, after some struggles, frees them both.

Majid, who knows a lot about music, gets fed up with being jobless and becomes a music teacher for the A'yan al-Molk family. This is happening while they're waiting for a suitor who's actually a fraud, planning to marry the daughter and get his hands on the family's wealth.

With the beginning of Iran-Iraqi war a hospital in Khoramshar is surrounded by the Iraqi army and is being attacked from both land and sky. Jahan Ara the young leader of the Iranians wants the injures and the rest of the women and doctors to get out of the hospital with an ambulance. But in the way the Iraqis attack them and some getting killed and few are saved. The few rescued people scatter around the city not finding the way to the Iranian's side. Among them is the driver of the ambulance, doctor Kasra, a widow, a captain, a man who constantly think of surrendering to the Iraqis so he can save his money, and a nurse Hanieh who brought two infants with herself. An Iraqi officer who has been captured is with them too.

"Daash Ahmad," a taxi driver, meets a young woman and soon falls in love with her. However, the girl's wealthy father stands in the way of their relationship...

An unsettling psychological descent into guilt, denial, and fractured identity. A father attends his daughter's funeral—a girl who was brutally assaulted and murdered. But when a young stranger, eerily resembling the father, appears and begins an unwanted conversation, the fragile facade of reality starts to crack. What begins as a confrontation spirals into something far more harrowing: a reckoning with a buried self. Inspired by Amélie Nothomb’s The Enemy’s Cosmetique, this film explores the monstrous duality of man—and the haunting price of facing one’s own darkness.

SafarAli leaves his village and heads to Tehran to buy some household appliances, as well as the stuff his future wife ordered.

The story of two sisters who claim they died thirty years ago and visit a psychiatrist to solve their problem.

A theater directed by Claudia Souracheh

A documentary on Iranian censorship.

When a man reaches his stall, he notices a mess. He finds a wounded man sheltering by a bush with a bag next to him, asking for some water. On his way back to get water, his boss tells him “Someone was shot last night and is still on the run.”

It is a parallel story of three young people, each of whom is caught up in social problems and problems and follows a different path when faced with it.

When a young man encounters the body of his old friend by the sea, he tries to uncover the truth about the cause of his death.

Navid and Forough are a happy couple who, despite the events that caused them to separate, experience an unusual way to stay together.

Geometry of Sorrow. Dedicated to dear Y.

Mahboube, a woman in her early thirties, enjoys a solitary existence. But her world is turned upside down when she lets a film crew into her home for a week-long shoot. First, she sees the objects that comprise her physical life used without thought or care. Then, the filming process affects her on a deeper level, forcing her to come to terms with the ghosts of her past and her place as a woman in Iranian society.

A Man who forgets to breathe while sleeping recently had a quarrel with his wife, she wanted to leave him and get divorced.

Younes’s father is arrested when the sugar factory boss accuses him of setting fire to the fields. When 11-year-old Younes, preparing himself for a football trial, finds out that at the night of the accident, his father, as a leading figure in the strikes and the protests, was busy at a meeting with the other workers, talking about their demands, he tries to bring the witnesses to the court. It is the starting point of his journey: a journey of forgetting his love for football and taking the pressure off his family….

Panah, a Middle-aged transgender male parent, is trying to leave Iran, in order to have sex reassignment procedures. He receives a phone call that his visa and medical docs have been rejected. Now, his only hope and motivation are to see his son once more and be accepted by him for his authentic true self.

A young man who lost his father as a child deceives a girl in a village and escapes to the city. The girl runs away and eventually becomes a prostitute.

Yashar has returned to Iran after few years to give a news for his friend's family, Unaware that they have news for him.

This film that is recorded on the roof of Golestan Palace, shows Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar and the rest of palace residents walking and looking far at the sky to watch or shoot birds. It might at first look like a short documentary movie but it is actually a drama in which the Shah plays the role of himself in an attempt to remake the real hunting/watching scene.

Hamed, the 13-year-old teenager has to both study and help his mother with work after his father’s death. He carries the clothes his mother makes to her customers riding an old bicycle left for him from his father. He has to ride long distances every day. Meanwhile the ministry of education makes an announcement about a bicycle race for guidance school students. For the same reason, Hamed takes every risk to get a bicycle for the race. However, he takes part with the same old bicycle.

An Iranian movie.

A research on prehistoric Petroglyphs of Arasbaran area in Azerbaijan province of Iran, and the megaliths of Pirazmian area as signs of a lost civilization.

After consulting with his relatives a 35-year-old father consents to the marriage of his 14-year-old daughter. As individuals with differing perspectives his family grapple with the decision.

Forty year old Mohammad turns to a 7-year-old boy in front of the camera and narrates the story of the Iran-Iraq war.

Where is Lily? There is a portrait and biography of "Mohammad Reza Darvishi" who has been researching the music of the regions for almost 25 years and has written valuable reference books about it. In this film, Mr. Ahmad Reza Ahmadi, Ehsan Naraghi, Kayhan Kalhor and also the photographer Reza Motarian are always present with him.

Tragedy strikes a young couple on their wedding day when the groom is attacked and killed by a wild animal. The groom's brother and grieving bride set out on a perilous trip into the forest to seek out the beast and take revenge for the death of their loved one. The film is set in a rural space and beautifully shot, drawing visual inspiration from Bahram Beyzai's 'Bashu the Little Stranger'.

The film deals with the mysterious murder of Lieutenant General Ali Razmara and examines the factors affecting his assassination and the figures involved in the incident.

synopsis Zari sees his old friend Mahmoud and they go to Hassan Rizeh restaurant. Zari's husband, Farzin, wants them to have children, but Zari does not want to obey her husband. Farzin, the manager of a company, goes to a restaurant to meet with a reporter, and Hassan Rizeh says that his wife was with a man in the restaurant a moment ago. Zari hides the matter from her husband, and Farzin leaves home and goes to Paris. In his absence, Hibat Ali, the director of the house, and Mahmoud and his wife Maryam suggest to Zari that he bring a child from the orphanage to satisfy Farzin and pretend that he has a child.

The heater in a classroom in a primary school catches fire and a teacher risks his life to save the students. He rescues the children, but he is severely burnt and is taken to the hospital. The head teacher is forced to bring in another teacher for the students but....

A Group of refugees tries to reach themselves to a safe country in search for a better life. They pay a smuggler to convey them across the boarders in a fridge truck. However, the freezing temperature of the truck turns their hopes for a better future into a fierce struggle for survival.

The story of an actor who will turn into a superstar after finding a magical whistle.

The thieves want to rob her cattle but she finds it out.

Salim Shaheen film from Afghanistan

Six urban women reveal their family recipes in a film that, at first glance, may look like an introduction to local cuisine, but which turns into a surprising exploration of relationships in modern Iranian society.

The lead protagonists in this film are Kurdistan and the kolbars of Kurdistan. In one of Iran’s most remote, deprived and little-understood regions, every day hundreds of people – from 12-year-old boys to men in their 70s – strap up to 50 kilos’ worth of goods to their backs and set out on foot, singing, on the days-long and dangerous journey across the border to Iraq. Kolbars are border couriers who physically shuttle large amounts of items for sale, from tissues to cigarettes to white goods, between Iran and Iraq. Their very existence is testament to the decades-long wanton neglect of Kurdistan by the Islamic Republic of Iran, which regards the minority communities in this mountainous border province as a security threat and does all it can to stifle local economic growth.

Jafar Barmaki, the vizier of Harun al-Rashid's government, and Abbasa, Harun al-Rashid's sister, who love each other, secretly get married. Zubaida, Harun al-Rashid's wife, finds out about this and causes the death of Jafar Barmaki and his two children.

"Hekayat-e-Del" is a series about the biographies and scientific and professional contributions of famous professors and contemporary cultural figures of Iran. This episode is about Professor Zohreh Zarshenas, one of the prominent professors of ancient linguistics in Iran and the world.

Young girls must go to the Simil camp where all their behaviors will be changed for the good of society. One day the group of new comers including one different girl enter the camp. the girl can't tolerate the organized orders and want to do something for freedom...

The girl wants to show her drawing to her family, but everybody is busy with their cell phones, the little girl because of loneliness goes to her grandpa who has just past away a few minutes ago without anybody noticing it.

A number of inmates from a reformatory school are scheduled for release. As a condition for their discharge, it is specified that the younger boys should live either with their families or in government supervision centers. On the appointed date, however, Mohsen Ghaderi's parents do not show up to take their son. Another boy, meanwhile, Sohrab, an orphan, is not accepted in the government supervision centers. The film depicts the real lives of these two young boys among other inmates of the reformatory school. The past, the present and whatever is destined to happen in the future are what this film is all about. The causes of crime, the roles the family and society play, and the efforts to re-educate juvenile delinquents at reformatory school are of particular interest in the film.

Animated short film

To escape from a bad financial situation, a teenager is forced to embark on a path that ends in nothingness.

A man wakes up in the middle of the night asking his wife: 'Do I play tennis?' His spends the next day finding an answer to his question which appears to be only the tip of an iceberg.

A documentary about the last days of Baktash Abtin’s life, who was murdered by the Iranian regime. He got infected with covid in prison and the authoriti simply refused to do a myth about it until it was already too late.

Baji and Kwekha are the sole survivors of an isolated village. that is going under the water little by little. They are the only companion & confidants of one another, who are waiting for their travelers.