Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

Three poor young men fall in love with girls who later turn out to have a wealthy father…

Zivar, a middle-aged woman, is the supervisor of a student dormitory. She reacts harshly when a student returns late to the dorm. In her solitude, she feels guilty and tries to improve the situation.

Killing one person is murder, and the punishment for the murderer is execution; massacring millions of people is a hero's honor, and the hero's reward is a medal.

A Film by Amirhossein Saghafi

About a middle-aged man who takes care of his elderly mother in an old house during the pandemics.

We talked before in Tehran. Your mom and I came here to have some time alone...

Massoud, a teenager, must overcome challenging obstacles to reach Mina, the person he deeply loves. Massoud decides to face any hurdle to attain his love, even at the cost of his own life...

A narrative of the establishment of the bronze foundry in the University of Tehran's sculpture department. The project was led by the renowned Iranian artist, Parviz Tanavoli.

The 'Rounama' dance comes from a wedding custom that was common in Iran, both in the distant past and more recently. Grooms wouldn't know their brides until the very last moment before getting married, and this unfamiliarity sometimes led to unexpected situations. The creators of the Rounama dance, which has humorous elements, aim to introduce viewers to this old tradition.

A football-loving youth named Werya is determined to go on a trip, setting a journey in motion to achieve his goal.

Which floor is better?

Majid Rezaei (Khayami) is a tenant whose landlord has paid him off. He searches for a house in Tehran until he finds and rents a house below the asking price. Now there is a wandering spirit in this house that causes various funny events throughout the story, which

Majid, who studied heart surgery, comes to Tehran after finishing his studies to talk to his family about marrying his favorite girl, Fariba. However, as soon as he arrives in Tehran, he discovers that his father has promised Majid to marry two other girls due to debt.

“Rojin's Dream” chronicles the journey of a disabled couple aspiring to start a family. Faced with the challenge of biological limitations, they turn to adoption in hopes of providing a loving home.

Childhood games and spinning amidst the Rug Flower are a shared memory between us. "Rug Flower" is an attempt to represent this memory to capture a moment of childhood and playfulness on the Rug Flower and within the cinematic frame. Abstract Experimental Film

With a fire in a village hut, the family man dies, and an urban couple takes one of the rural children named Mahmoud to the city and raises him. The mother raises her other child, Jafar. Years later, Jafar is a zealous villager who has fallen for Leila, Murad Khan's daughter. On the other hand, Jahangir Khan, Qoli Khan's son, the headman of the upper village, intends to deceive Leila. Meanwhile, a health corpsman named Mahmoud enters the village.

This poetic short film reflects on Kurdish identity, love, and the fleeting nature of life through vivid imagery and emotion.

The documentary "I Talk to My Father," directed by Nahid Bodaghi, tells the story of an artist grappling with his personal fears and challenges. Through the use of archival photos and personal space, the film explores the complex relationship between the director and his father. In this emotional journey, the director seeks to gain a deeper understanding of himself and the roots of his fears while simultaneously portraying the voice of his generation.

In this poetic and visually expressive work, Karimi examines the invisible boundaries between life and death, freedom and limitation, hope and loss. Through stark imagery and minimal dialogue, he turns physical frontiers into emotional landscapes — a cinematic meditation on the Kurdish spirit and the human condition

Experimental Short Film By Yasaman Pishvaei.

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

Abbas gets hired as a rich woman's driver.

Mr. Moghadam, a film director, visits a mental hospital one day and asks the hospital authorities to admit a schizophrenic patient. The authorities ask: Who is the patient? Moghadam answers: Myself. In the hospital, Moghadam remembers that he went to a producer to make a movie, and the producer mentioned the condition of making the movie that his tender and romantic script would be transformed into a violent and eventful one, which would of course be a big seller. Moghadam is forced to accept. But a few days later, with the change in government policies regarding film and cinema; the "producer" does not consider the new script worthy of production because it is violent and eventful. Until.....

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...

When Katayoun sees her husband – Cambyses – being excessively worried and anxious, she sends him to a psychiatrist and herself leaves for their villa in the north to act in a film. In the north, Katayoun, who is forced to stay in the villa due to the bad weather, witnesses strange events and…

A young reporter whose mother separated from her father due to her interest in acting decides to harass successful female actors in order to take revenge, hiring successful actors as producers and dragging them to a creepy villa outside the city for rehearsals until

A one-legged man turns his unworn shoes into flowerpots - each holding a memory, a wound, and a quiet act of defiance against time.

The film addresses the issue of execution as one of the most fundamental human crises. Through the story of a young athlete, the film raises a universal question: how can individual aspirations and freedom collapse in the face of legal violence and social pressures? On the final night, some rules and restrictions are challenged, and the possibility of redefining freedom is formed. Produced with limited resources, this work attempts to recreate the lived experience of the crisis of freedom in the language of cinema. By transforming an underground bunker into a prison space and building all the sets with his own hands, the director has turned limitations into an opportunity for creativity.

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MohammadReza is a grown man who wakes up in literature class; the teacher asks him a question and he loses the ability to speak when answering, but he protests the wrong answers of others and goes to write the answer on the board, where mathematical equations are also being written involuntarily.

Asra and Helia are dancing and playing.

A dog and its owner are wandering in the desert. Suddenly, an incident challenges both of them.

Showing the atmosphere prevailing in the school, incorrect labeling of students, lack of attention to students' creativity.

A thin and thin person carries a heavy burden on their shoulders and walks with difficulty in the desert due to the weight of the burden. They face problems and difficulties on their path as well as the inner dimensions of the sorrows and fatigue of their life. They see sakura trees in the distance and continues on their path. After enduring many hardships, They reaches a gate with a back full of sakura trees. They are stunned by the beauty of the sakuras and the wind shakes the branches of the sakura trees. They slowly smile sadly, but in the end, despite enduring the weight of the burden and the difficulties of the path, They suddenly fall to the ground from the pressure of the burden and their bag is torn. It is full of sakura (cherry blossoms) falling out. Although They cannot pass through the gate, the wind blows some of them into the trees.

In the story "Companion," two wounded and hungry wolves travel together in the cold of winter. At first, there is a sense of camaraderie and companionship between them, but living conditions become more difficult. In the end, the stronger wolf kills and eats the weaker wolf in order to survive. The camaraderie had meaning until hunger struck.

The animation takes place in a chicken farm and depicts the cycle of repetition in chickens in an exaggerated way.

The village headman's daughter and the landlord's daughter are both smitten with a young engineer. After some drama, the landlord's daughter finally puts an end to the problem. She pretends to be frivolous so that the young engineer distances himself from her and gets closer to the headman's daughter, even though she loves the engineer and suffers from losing him.

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The eyes are beyond this world and see things that cannot be seen.

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In the Messier Marathon, we search the sky; a night when amateurs and professionals come together to hunt for nebulae and galaxies, and the sky becomes a living stage.

Among the metropolises of Iran, Shiraz is the only one that has a natural wetland in its heart. This is a refuge for migratory birds that have no natural and safe water source left for kilometers. Forouzan Wetland, which is a freshwater wetland, attracts migratory birds every year. It is more accurate to say that these migratory birds return to their birthplace.

This documentary is the director's personal narrative of an old burned-out photo studio that recorded events from the past 70 years.

Parvin, along with the man she loves, is pursuing a map to a treasure her father left her. Her stepmother is also involved. The stepmother first tries to trick the man, and succeeds. As they get closer to the promised location, she tries to destroy Parvin, but becomes a victim of her own plan.

A story about Kermanshah souvenirs

Produced in the educational center of Cinema-ye Azad, the seventh filmmaking workshop.

Set in the aftermath of Iran’s 1953 coup, Private Meeting follows three escaped political prisoners who take refuge in a private gathering at a diplomat’s house. As they hold the guests hostage, tensions rise between the fugitives and the upper-class partygoers, revealing sharp social and ideological divides. The story unfolds as a tense political drama that reflects on loyalty, fear, and disillusionment in a time of national turmoil.

It is a comedic story about the lives of people in a mental asylum where strange things happen.

A Lost Persian Film.

A man who has been married four times falls in love again.

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Joseph ran away from Saddam's agents because he didn't want to fight in Iraq Iran war. Nobody has any news of him for 21 years. After the Allies invade Iraq, some news is heard about Joseph.

Jafar defends himself in court as an accused, saying he had a peaceful life with his mother, but some thugs lured him into gambling and he lost everything.

Farideh lives with her father and brother....

A female musician attempting to cross the Iranian border by land is arrested by the police because of an exit ban. The events during her detainment inspire her new musical piece.

Both the son and the father become infatuated with a girl, and each tries to attract her attention in their own way. After a series of adventures and numerous conflicts, the girl finally marries the son.

Hooshang and Kamran return to Iran after finishing their studies abroad. Simin, Hooshang's sister, is interested in her cousin Saeid; however, Hooshang, who wants his sister to marry Kamran, opposes their marriage.

Teenage Matin is an Afghan illegal immigrant, working in a stray dog shelter in a deserted spot in Iran. Feeling abandoned and ignored by the people who have founded the shelter, he has built a world of his own, surrounded by the dogs as his sole friends – the ones who beg to play with the others, the ones who beg to be caressed by the others… When he finds out that due to the economic crisis in Iran, he will face big problems to feed the dogs, he is obliged to make a decision…

In this film, the director reviews and reads through various unfilmed ideas from a park in Tehran.