Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

A couple separates after 8 years if marriage But they decide to keep living together to hide the decision from family and friends.

Mohsen Aghaei's documentary "Divarkesh" deals with the connection between sex and politics in Iran and the world. A phenomenon known as pornocracy. For years, sexual issues have been abused by politicians in the field of elections and vote-getting in Iran and the world. Sexual abuse has a special place in the advertising industry.

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 time the action is restricted to a kindergarten, a world seemingly far removed from real life in Iran. Pre-school is the first and last time boys and girls can learn together freely before entering the strictly segregated education system. Much like the dog in Toodehroosta’s well received first feature Paat (2013), six-year-old Roham plays the often silent witness to the actions unfurling around him. As his curiosity grows, the complicated real lives of the other pupils start to unravel.

Twenty-five years ago, when the Taliban took over Afghanistan and music was banned, Gholam Nabi and his family suffered a lot of oppression. He and his son manufacture the rabab, a string instrument with origins dating back to the seventh century, and one of Afghanistan’s national musical instruments.

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

In a restaurant, a plate of "Salad Shirazi" (traditional Iranian salad) is served with meat. (Which is not a part of the original salad Shirazi). Three guys at their table discuss whether to eat the salad or not

In a remote Iranian village, 12-year-old Ebrahim (Ebrahim Zarozehi) works harder than some of the adults who tower over him to help his single mom care for his five siblings and to save for their own home. He picks dates, waits on tourists at an eco resort (where his mother also works), tends horses at a local ranch and runs errands for anyone willing to pay. While the lure of Tehran seduces some of his friends away, Ebrahim, for all the daily hardships and demands, seems content to stick close to home. Through Ebrahim’s eyes, wise beyond their years, writer-director Mehdi Hoseinivand explores the rhythms and relationships of small town life in largely realist terms but at the film’s center is always a warm, caring story of Ebrahim and his family as they quietly, determinedly make their way in the world.

Shahrbanoo is the mother of three children who has been sentenced to life in prison for drug trafficking. After 11 years in prison, she is released from prison for a few days to attend her son's wedding. However, this temporary release confronts him with another aspect of his life and that of his family before returning to prison.

This is a documentary produced by Manoto TV Network, which uses rare images to tell the story of the character of Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the Revolution of 1979 in Iran.

A Green Dot

Shadi is a little girl that her parents have been accused of murdering a girl in the village, and villagers killed her parents to seek revenge. Her uncle adops her and now Shadi must face the problems that people of the village caused them.

For the sparrow, the boll is a small excuse for greater experience.

Behruz who has mental illness and lives with his brother's family meets Shirin a widow with two kids. They decide to get marry in secret but when their secret revealed the problems for them begin.

Drama of brother and sister facing and passing difficult obstacles.

Kasra, looks for his lost niece in the town.

life of a young couple in the verge of man's blindness is collapsing and the only thing that will save them is their own common past.

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

A gypsy woman named Setareh, after being rejected from home, leaves her young son Ali next to a house and runs away. Farrash-bashi (School Janitor) finds Ali and takes him to his workplace, which is a busy elementary school, and takes care of him with the help of school children.

“Our life is a movie! You shouldn’t be making another one,” an angry mother shouts, but her daughter is out the gate, determined to join a group of clandestine actors and filmmakers in a waiting van. In the dusty village of Khosro, twenty kilometers from Tehran, work can be found at the brick kiln, but amateur film production gives the locals something to live for. Or did, until the authorities discovered this community pastime, and writer-director Ali Matini was imprisoned. Now all but a few shun the project on pain of arrest. But Matini and company dared to make one more film so that the better-known director Moslem Mansouri (once a political prisoner himself) could document their art and courage. With a donkey for a dolly, the crew quips, “Even Orson Welles cannot work like this.” But then, Welles can’t honestly say, as Matini does, “Our life is what Kafka described. . . . We are hanging from the gallows of cinema.”

The film tells the story of an actress from 1960s and 1970s who was banned from acting after the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

A short documentary about Tehran that mainly focuses on the industrialization, modernization and Westernization of the city in the 1960s

It is about a woman named Mahtab who suffers from depression and mental illness after the death of her father. Mahtab's husband, Ehsan, builds a house outside the city for her recovery, but Mahtab's illness worsens upon entering this house.

A documentary film crew follows an Iranian woman, a doctor who is living under political house arrest. Inviting journalists into her home to share her research can hold a potential death sentence, a risk she is willing to take in order to save countless lives.

Nazi is the main suspect of a robbery that happened in a company. She knows that the thief is a man named Jahangir, but she has no proof. She asks her friends Taghi and Mehrdad to help him turn in Jahangir to the police.

Immigration? Yes or no? In Search of a better life... Is there another way? Please wait...

The eleventh film from Shahriar Hanife's series of experimental etudes, an Iranian researcher.

A girl that was born in a religious family decides to tattoo her beliefs as a sentence on her body in an underground tattoo shop, when she arrives she faces an unexpected character.

Do you and a fighter jet pilot remember your childhood the same way?

The film tells the story of an 8-year-old schoolboy who lives under constant stress because of his family’s poverty. At school, he repeatedly wets his pants. When he returns home, he hides under his mother’s chador. His mother decides that he must overcome this habit, but because of the problems related to his fugitive father, she faces other difficulties.

In a southern port, two tribes are engaged in fishing. These two tribes have long had differences. Their dispute is about access to salt, which is absolutely impossible for one of them to obtain. As a result, despite much hardship and effort in fishing, due to the lack of salt to preserve the caught fish, their product constantly spoils before it reaches the market, which has led to numerous conflicts. Suddenly, two loves emerge. The roots of discord and hatred push these two loves to the brink of destruction, but ultimately it is love that, after years of conflict, brings the two tribes closer together.

The elderly mother has begun to secrete a strange golden substance that tastes unmistakably like honey.

A boy, due to his father's inattention, drops out of school and falls in with bad company. The father, who is busy carousing and drinking with promiscuous women, becomes so oblivious to his son that he joins a group of criminals, and as he becomes more and more entangled, the love of a woman comes to his aid.

An engineer with a small, happy family goes on a trip. A malicious man who covets the engineer's wife, Forough, deceives her in her husband's absence, making it seem like Forough is having an affair with him. Upon returning home and learning of this, the engineer casts his wife out and continues his life depressed, alone, and aimless. After a series of events, the truth is finally revealed, the malicious man gets his just deserts, and the family is reunited once more.

A solitary man earns his living by making the dead disappear. When he learns he has terminal pancreatic cancer, he embarks on one final journey, drifting through opium-induced visions to find the grave of a woman he once buried.

This film is about love in harmony with nature, in which two newly-grown teenagers embark on a journey into the heart of nature while the girl’s father is asleep, and ultimately their love for each other encounters the first laws.

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

Among the dead and wounded on the battlefield. A soldier tries to save himself from the enemy officer who is shooting at the head of wounded soldiers, but his deep wounds prevent him from doing so. The enemy officer is getting closer to him moment by moment and at the end they'll have encountered

A disturbed girl has a horrible nightmare in which two muddy figures ask her to open a mysterious box. To get rid of that, she decides to kill herself in her nightmare just to wake up.

Directed by Mohammad Hatami.

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

"Hamid" is kicked out of his mother's luxurious house.

a black and white Performance video-art

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.

Concealing a devastating secret about his daughter, a father has told everyone that she is missing, while pretending to search for her alongside his son. They venture into an abandoned forest to ensure the secrecy remains hidden. The son, unable to bear the burden of this concealed truth any longer and weary of his father’s behavior and beliefs, takes a step that profoundly impacts their family’s life.

The third outing for Danesh Eghbashavi was filmed with two iPhones, a small hand-held camera, a GoPro action camera, and the appreciable influence of Roger Corman. This rousing genre blend of comedy, detective story and mockumentary demonstrates that, even in the present day, independent film can incorporate aspects of the revolutionary gesture. In a brisk and complex way it tells a story which might suggest it was filmed by its protagonists as a live broadcast. The sophisticated narrative composition is akin to the process of opening out Chinese nested boxes – the characters know what is going to happen and they provide the appropriate commentary as well. Archive shots are also added to the mix. An explosive world premiere.

According to Islamic Republic of Iran's laws a son inherits twice as much as a daughter from the father's property, but what if a girl has changed gender?

When Hana’s aunt goes to the hospital to have a nose job, grandpa comes to take care of the kids. The kids go play in the alley, but to be on the safe side, grandpa suggest they’d come back home. They accept to return home on the one condition that they would be allowed to use the video camera to make a movie…

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...

Ebrahim Golestan's contribution to an anthology film about the rites of betrothal in four separate countries.

A fragmentary narrative of two women whose lives are distant from each other yet hold traces of one another. This film conjures the ghosts that hover over the day to day lives of these two women; it is a rumination on the experience of the immigrant within and without the diaspora and the ways in which personal/familial memory seeps through the surface of everyday life.

A coppersmith has a daughter named Termeh. Termeh does not want to do anything. At the suggestion of his apprentice Ahmad [Amir Sheisi] her father buys her a chicken named Kakoli to give her something to do. Termeh gets used to Kakoli, but one night Kakoli runs away from a cat and turns up missing.

A Khorasani saffron grower struggles to fertilize the saffron plant with dehydration and the risk of losing the dull flowers of the saffron in order to obtain the flower stigma or saffron root.