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A strange man advertises that he will pay for an American visa and cover all travel expenses to move to America to anyone who can convince him why their problems are so great that they must leave Iran. The catch is they only have one minute to do it.
Ghazeleh, a young Iranian woman yearning for freedom and justice, is killed during a protest against Iran's patriarchal regime, among the women of the "Women, Life, Freedom" movement. She films her own death, becoming a posthumous narrator of the story.
Iranian animation about a colourful fish, her admirers and her threats.
Faezeh Hahsemi daughter of the Iran's powerful president, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani. Faezeh Hahsemi is the most news making woman in the Islamic republic's history. She was at first, only, known as the courageous daughter of the Iran's powerful president, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani. But quickly she became an independent character and turned into one of the most influential individuals in the world of politics in Iran with her speeches about Baha'i in Iran and also with her protests against the election in Ahmadi Nejhad Time.
«On the Edge of the Galaxy» is a nine-minute passive virtual reality video installation in a 360 - degree micro-theater space that tells a romantic story in three scenes of devotion, courtship, and separation. A love that ultimately leads to the migration and distance of lovers, causing their separation. Four monitors are embedded around the audience, displaying images of Persian miniatures and inserts as well as images of an Iranian woman. In the space between the monitors are candles, wine glasses, a place for Persian poetry, and a stage where four female Iranian pop singers before the Islamic Revolution sing songs about love and separation.
The director, the sound engineer and the driver go together in the middle of the night to record one minute of the silence of the night in the city.
The story is about a hunter who, in his quest to find his dog, encounters a mountaineer who has lost his way. The mountaineer seeks refuge at the hunter's house for the night and slowly comes to realize that not all is as it appears.
Ali and his wife Zari work in a spinning factory, and Ali's uncle is the janitor of the factory. Jamshid, the deputy manager of the factory, seeks to seduce Zari, and on the other hand, Jamshid's secretary tries to get closer to Ali by disrupting the relationship between Ali and Zari.
Iranian girl Helia has become thirteen, which led her family to restrict her from cycling.
Directed by Shiva Masoudi.
On an island in southern Iran, where circumcision of both boys and girls is still practised, a small boy catches a glimpse of the ceremony and runs off terrified. His father eventually catches up with him and explains how circumcision is an important part of becoming a good muslim. The little boy is now totally confused.
A short film.
The story is about people’s irresponsibility in some critical situations that compel them do anything unusual to save their lives...
As she watched Remedios the Beauty waving goodbye in the midst of flapping sheets that rose up with her and they were lost forever with her in the upper atmosphere, where not even the highest flying birds of memory could reach her.
A young man is working hard at a blacksmith shop. After seeing pictures of massive iron structures in the newspaper, he feels upset about how insignificant his own handiwork is.
A man has fallen in love with a prostitute. He's struggling with an inner conflict between love and guilt.
DokhtarBaas, the only girl in the family, is home alone. She finds a new playmate due to her father's illness.
Stealing (2020)
Berlinale Generation 14plus International short film winning short feature.
There are many years of shopping and selling women & girls in the state of Afghanistan, Nangarhar!
A short horror film.
A young boy wants to express his love to his favorite girl for the first time.
Bloor, An Afghan girl was able to ran away from Taliban after being their hostage for eighty days. She was raped and torture by them. Bloor goes back to her village and family and expecting a warm welcome. But everything goes the other way. she finds herself in a place where is way worse than being a Taliban hostage. She is now accused by her father and others for the shame that she brought with her. A disaster is expecting her.
A woman who has sold her baby for better life finds out that buyer is an organ dealer, So she tries to get her baby back and …
They say to me, Jesus, I will do whatever I want!
Vahid Qelich, the former coach & goalkeeper of popular Iranian Football Club; Persepolis, was, in effect, ousted from football pitches after his golden era. He experienced hard days and over time, football fans forgot the honors he brought for his homeland. He succeeded in regaining his glorious days of the past after years of silence, poverty, dejection and seclusion. This time, he owes his fame to dynamic presence in Instagram, not diving in football net as the goaler. Currently, Instagram has turned to be most virtual companion to Qelich, at the age of 65. Social media, mostly used as entertaining apps by majority of people, is serving as a device to reclaim his lost identity.
Everything can disappear, like the fall of the last snowflake.
Silver is a story of Mrs. Tavakoli, the inspector of a charity organization, who enters a house to check the condition of one of the applicants, the existence of a crisis makes it difficult for her to make a decision.
A semi-autobiographical story of a desperate and seemingly narcissistic young man living in Tehran, who expects more from life than it can offer. He hopelessly keeps trying to reconnect with the world around him, his lover, and his friends, but at the same time keeps a detachment. Eventually he finds himself in the middle of an uprising and must face questions of the self, solitude, and universal fate.
This extraordinary film centres on Amir, a young Tehrani who decides to tell all in a Youtube video. When Amir is granted a night off from caring for his invalid father, his evening of fun with friends takes a nasty turn with disastrous consequences. Filmed in one single shot, Amir's stark confession brings a level of honesty rarely seen in cinema. We cannot help but be swept up by Abed Abest's anguished performance, delivered straight to the camera.
An extreme experience in destroying the data stored in the video file.
The Danish-Iranian filmmaker Roja is in the most difficult period of her 36-year life. She is pregnant with her son Oskar and is diagnosed with incurable cancer. In the midst of all this, she must try to find herself. The film is her journey filmed over six dramatic years, in which she documents her everyday life and her thoughts about living with a disease that can cost her everything. How do you live when your precious time on earth is running out too soon? However, Roja is the last to feel sorry for herself. She immerses herself in being present, and then she sets out to chart her Iranian origins and the dramatic history of her family, which opened a new chapter when her politically engaged parents fled Iran after the revolution and ended up in Denmark.
Its about a runner who hasn't any country to live.
Documentary about Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, Iranian economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Iran from 27 January 1965 to 7 August 1977.
Yellow Harmony / The confluence of sound and blackness and body and "Yellow" / To achieve objectivity
This formalist film is a 20-minute take (a continuous shot) with reverse chronological narration where scenes unfold in reverse order without any cuts. Although it has a narrative structure, the execution and form of the film are experiential and formalist.
Mohammad Khordadian opens the album of memories, each photo of which tells a bitter and sweet memory. This documentary is the story of Mohammad, his ex-wife Jane and his best friend Abi, which turns into an unfulfilled love triangle.
The members of the Black Hawk group want to escape from the port of Karachi after stealing the death ray. Agent Jane Bond 008 is assigned by the British Intelligence Service to rescue the professor who succeeded in inventing the death ray while fighting against the members of the Black Hawk group.
Lady Khadijeh Saqafi was born on 1st March 1914. At the age of 16 she married the clergyman Roohollah Moosavi Khomeini, who would later become Ayatollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader and founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979. This biography of Lady Khadijeh explores her 60 years with the Ayatollah, a hugely important period which came to shape Iran as it is today.
A film by bahman kiarostami
Nessa, a young woman, is preparing to tie the knot, but her brother is determined to halt the wedding due to his possession of a significant secret concerning his sister.
The story of a little girl who is forced into marriage as a child by the family and the wrong tradition of society.
A narrative of the life and works of Bahram Sadeghi (Iranian poet and modernist fiction writer)
The story is about A man who was taking refuge in the jungle While escaping from the painful truth, But …
Yaghma and his friend, who were protesting workers, were exposed by some criminals, the gang who has a authority in that area. Yaghma's friend is executed and Yaghma has to tell this news to his friend's sister "Parva". She works in Mahtab's cafe, the lonely mysterious woman who has a cafe in a far part of the city. Yaghma is seeking for revenge, Parva also accompanies him on his way
Being, a young boy who doesn't have much chance to live, struggles between being and not being
A girl is seated, Waiting for something she doesn't know about.