Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

A compassionate woman, with dedication and the help of several benevolent Iranian ladies, rushes to the aid of orphanage children and cares for them with patience and education.

A young man from a village, out of desperation, decides to steal in the city. So, he enters a house at night and finds a dead body there. The young villager is caught and convicted. His defense lawyer, who has discovered the truth, gathers evidence and frees the young villager.

A young boy and girl meet at university and after a while decide to get married, but the girl's father, who is a greedy man, decides to marry his daughter to his nephew Jamshid, who claims to own a large fortune.

God sees. God exists.

The short film series "Another Me", created by Armin Lavasani and Parsa Esgandarion, consists of short stories about people who encounter someone who looks exactly like themselves.

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Entering the world of several booksellers in the Safavi building on Enghelab Street and discovering new secrets of old bookstores

A poetic interpretation of the life of Mahmoud Darwish, the great Palestinian poet

"Tehran on the Walls" is an attempt to present a different perspective on the current situation in Tehran and its challenges from various biological, social, and cultural aspects. Using the language of art and images, this film examines problems such as environmental pollution, social inequalities, and cultural changes, and seeks to establish a deep connection with the audience.

A Lost Persian Film. Two millionaires make a bet on a simple young man named "Habib". One of them claims that even if Habib has money, he is still useless and will not gain value. The other claims the opposite and believes that if Habib has money, he will soon be noticed and respected. On this assumption, they give Habib a check for one million tomans for one month. Habib goes to Tehran, where some people try to take the check from him. But they fail. Habib finally returns the check to its owner at the end of a month, along with some money he has earned by crediting the check, thus proving the second millionaire's claim.

A car ran out of gas in the middle of the road.

The story of a Christian woman's love for Imam Hussein.

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

An Iranian youth happens to meet an English girl. The two socialize for a while and become infatuated with each other. But their life together causes conflicts and incidents that the girl and boy resist with faith in their love and finally succeed.

We see footage of the Green Movement, a wave of protests in Iran that began in the summer of 2009, in response to the presidential election fraud in favor of the incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. We see the chaos, the solidarity among the people, and the amazement too: that this is possible, that this is actually happening. Shaky handheld images capture both the energy of the crowd and the panic when shots suddenly ring out. Meanwhile, a voice-over calmly recounts what happened to the people we see.

A Lost Persian Film.

As Lake Ûrmîye dries into salt plains, the once-fertile village of Dizaj Dol faces ecological collapse. Amid dying crops and vanished livelihoods, Kurdish and Azari neighbours struggle to save their land, turning to faith and shared resilience against nature’s relentless devastation.

Dada Saltaneh is an ordinary woman, striving to achieve her dreams.

‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌Nasser is a young boy who is engaged in "kulbari" in the mountains of Uramanat. He lives in a rural family, and one of his concerns is helping his elderly mother, who is suffering from cancer.

A Lost Persian Film.

A humorous film about the uprising of Ja'far Pishevari in Azerbaijan.

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.

Jamshid asks his friend Mahmoudi, who is the company's cashier, for an advance to cover his sick mother's medical expenses.

Azar, Manouchehr, and Amir go to a village so Manouchehr can claim a portion of his deceased father's property from his step-brother, Hamid.

"A free adaptation of the short story Behind the Thin Stalks of the Reed Fence by Houshang Golshiri."

The reflection of every star in the sea becomes a blue and holy pomegranate. an old man catches them from the sea and bring them to the village by the sea. The people who gathered in village to Separate the pomegranate seeds from inside the pomegranate, each have a different story in their lives.Their destiny is linked to these pomegranates and each other. The different stories of the characters have been placed next to each other like a pomegranate seeds, and have made the main atmosphere.

A man goes home after buying a mirror. The house is quiet, but the shattered mirror in the frame indicates some events have happened before.

Arapik Baghdasarian was a designer, graphic artist, caricaturist, animator, and filmmaker who made a significant contribution to Iranian visual arts in the past decades. The documentary "Arapik" is an attempt to reinterpret the life and worldview of this artist, whose untimely death prevented the audience from becoming more familiar with him and his works.

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…

About 25, Blood and Streets

A middle-aged projectionist of a small-town cinema meets his teenage love after many years. The faces of all the residents of the city are deformed, only crying will make their faces return to their normal form.

Everything happens for no reason and suddenly, but its outcome and fate are no longer without reason and cause great sorrow. An Afghan girl is placed next to several Iranian men, and their positions change, and everything goes hand in hand, and in order to escape the great wrath, a disaster occurs.

A look at the cinematic life of the late Ahmad Jorqanian, one of the oldest foreign film archivists in Iran.

A look in the experiences of an art teacher in one of the Bandar Anzali schools.

This short experimental trilogy explores the fragile landscape of the human psyche. Using a hybrid form between photo-roman and narrative storytelling, it portrays episodes of separation, solitude, and voyeurism, culminating in a meditation on the possibility of unconditional love.

Two high school students get punished for their wrongdoings and are forced to paint the wall of their classroom as a punishment.

The Iranian film (Al-Nibras), which narrates the biography of Imam Ali bin Abi Talib, peace be upon him. The evening, which was held by the Anu Foundation for Performing Arts in cooperation with the Palace of Culture and the Union of Radio and Television Professionals in Basra, was attended by a number of academics, artists, media professionals and various social segments. The film dealt with the courage of Imam Ali (peace be upon him) and the strength of his faith, which called him to fight heroes and fight the brave, although he was then in the prime of youth, Ali (peace be upon him) did not know the meaning of fear, until Muslims and non-Muslims unanimously agreed that history has never seen an analogue. In Khaybar, which was covered in the film, the people were unable to stand firm in front of the Jews, and when everyone was weak to storm the fortresses of Khaybar until their opening was delayed for days,

Nestled in the heart of Iran, the majestic Zagros mountains are home to populations whose way of life is a veritable dance in symbiosis with nature. Within this vast choreography, their economy, habitat and culture intertwine harmoniously, creating a thousand-year-old tango between man and nature. However, both partners seem to be exhausted, and this ancestral dance is now under threat.

Rezaei is a teenager who is mocked by his peers, but eventually, he reaches his breaking point and decides to take revenge on one of his classmates. However, this revenge doesn’t end well.

Here, I know every image, every turn, every word – despite myself, and I begin hallucinating in-between images – impossible images, hallucinating a body that is neither this nor that, for whom resistance is secretly routine.

A goldfish in a small container goes to a bigger pond with the help of a cat and the sun

Teenage Pooya, living alone with his mother, finds himself caught in a quiet struggle between her and Tala, the young painter next door. As tensions rise, he must navigate the complexities of family and independence in this stunning cinematic poem.

Farzad, who lived in London as a Freemason, mysteriously disappears. Farzad’s son, Faramak comes to Iran to bury his father’s body, but in Iran, he encounters a strange and unfamiliar atmosphere. He also discovers that his father had a wife whom Faramak cannot initially accept. However, gradually Faramak connects with her and realizes that she is a famous film actress who was not active during his father’s lifetime, but now her films and photos are being circulated again.

A film by Aramais Aghamalian.

Iranian film by Mehdi Reisfirooz

Hamid is a young musician who is well-known in the art community and performs in hotels and cabarets.

A daughter from a wealthy family falls for a young worker and wants to marry him.

A woman goes to see a house to rent and encounters a challenge in the middle of the visit.

The Camera’s Gaze is an experimental essay film that investigates the tension between immersion and self-reflection in cinema. Merging AI-generated interpretations of the filmmaker’s own essays—with visuals and soundscapes drawn from The Killer (David Fincher) and The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)—the film disrupts traditional authorship and narrative control through a collaborative process between human intention and algorithmic suggestion. Layered montage, altered sound, and shifting color reframe familiar material, encouraging viewers to question how images are constructed and consumed. Reflexive and participatory, the film invites an active gaze, turning the act of watching into an inquiry of perception.

A story about some people who are like nature.

Directed by Arash Eshaghi, KHarabat is a documentary film with a runtime of 74 minutes. The film was produced in 2015 and has been featured in various international film festivals. Eshaghi, an Iranian filmmaker known for his interest in cultural and social themes, brings his distinct directorial vision to this project.

Qasem, a young man on the verge of gender transition, is invited by his brothers to a celebration where he receives a new name and becomes Parvaneh. But the arrival of Khandadash (Eldest brother) disrupts the calm, revealing the true intentions of the brothers. Amidst the chaos, Qasem is caught in a purgatory between her inner truth and outer appearance, while Khan Dadash is trapped in his own purgatory, unable to accept this new reality. In the end, only two remain, connected by a silence in the damned purgatory.

A documentary about the history of Iranian fiction

The Weight of Words is perhaps more than the introduction of the scientific and cultural personality of Abolhasan Najafi, which was enough well-known to everyone, but the story of the discovery of fatherhood. The fact that he was away for about thirty years of close contact with his son, and now his son wants to get to know him bit by bit.

Danial Safari, a martial arts champion and Kung Fu master, inadvertently becomes a witness to an event and embarks on a path that opens his eyes to a new world.

A young man desperate for an Americano visits the coffee shop he frequents only to find it impossible to communicate his order. Things escalate into absurdity as everyone, including his friend, speaks in a language he does not understand. Estranged, startled, and confused, the young man must decide how much a cup of coffee really is worth.