Discoveries from Iran World Cinema

This movie is not about love, nor is about war. This movie is about the end of love.

Azadeh is a social worker in Ilam city. Ilam has the highest suicide rate in Iran after the Iran and Iraq war. She wants to prevent women’s suicide by exposing it to society. Only Tahereh, who has experienced self-immolation, accompanies Azadeh.

The story of documentaries shot by Ibrahim Khan the photographer that was prepared for Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar. and how to restore and revive the reels by Dr. Shahriar Adl in France.

The documentary deals with Mithraism. The relationship and influence of the Mehri ritual in the Christian religion and the rejection of the natural and historical roots of the Mehr in different Asian and European cultures and nations is the subject of this research documentary. Mithraism has a longer history than any other religion in the general culture of Iran. "Mithraism" has been very effective in the formation of our Iranian culture.

A boy lives in a border village with Azheh. After Azheh’s death, the boy tries to fulfill her will to be buried in his homeland.

Freerider Fabian Lentsch immerses himself in local culture on a year-long road trip in Iran with his Snowmads truck. For once he wants to drop the tourist role when visiting a foreign country.

A crow, a fox, and a man gather they food by hunting in a forest, but the man who has become a werewolf is a ravening predator and destroys everything on his path.

A young boy is at home, alone with his sick mother. It is raining outside and the roof of their home is dripping. He is playing with his toys and also collecting the pouring water but one spot is very challenging where his mother is sleeping. He wants to keep his mother dry and does not want to wake her up.

An Iranian woman juggles her dreams of being a competitive cyclist and the pressures of life as she approaches marriage

Cylinder is about a teenager who, despite his interest and talent for soccer, is forced to obey his father, who is addicted to material things and prevents him in any way from playing soccer and reaching the finals.

⁣This animation is the story of people of city who have an execution rope on their heads after the legal age. People shorten their legs, every day, to escape the rope. A poster designer finds the connection between the rope and the city’s mysterious factory and makes an important decision.

No boundary can prevent the formation of friends and affection between children.

Maryam is a 38-year-old woman who heads a family of four. She decides to cut off her right hand while working in a poultry slaughterhouse because, in this way, she can get more money from insurance than losing her left hand to pay her debts. To this end, Maryam starts to practice with her left hand to do daily chores.

A cheerful little girl meets a tiny bird, right before her egg goes missing. She decides to help her find it. Going on a journey together, they find out a mysterious long hand is stealing all the eggs.

Near a village, the river’ water level has dropped due to a dam, upsetting the ecological balance. So that lack of water and food has made an alligator comes around the village. The villagers are very scared but a wise man understands the matter and tries to guide the alligator to a suitable place to live.

A little girl goes to the amusement park to play with her friends without her family’s permission. Everything changes when she returns home, prompting her to make a big decision.

The film tracks the story of an “interrogation” through the footages from Shahoo mountain, a mountain in Kurdistan of Iran which hosts nomadic Kurdish tribe called Havar Neshins. Through landscape as its approach, this film tries to uncover spatial justice by observing the living space of the nomadic people of Havar Neshins, identified based on the complexity of the landscape in which they reside.

The family of a little girl who suffers from insomnia and cannot sleep, faces problems.

A family is getting together to celebrate the daughter’s birthday, but a pack of tea changes everything.

Khalkhaali is an iranian Cheetah who lives in a forest and uses his intelligence to protect himself and the environment. A hunter comes to the forest looking for him but doesn't suceed, because Khalkhaali is too clever and fast and knows how to escape danger.

When you wake up and do things every day but all of a sudden, you find yourself next to someone you don't know!

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

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

Atena, a young girl, is born to parents whose faces are burnt by acid throwing. While struggling in her relationship with her parents, she gets involved with Soheil, a mysterious young Sufi.

The story of red pencil, from its tip to the end of it

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a documentary about the conflicts between the citizens of Tehran

In a completely gray world, the colorful identity of a conservative young man is accidentally revealed by a playful boy. People are terrified of this, calling the police to arrest the young man. But the young man managed to escape, returning the next day to defend his right to freedom.

Mehrdad Mehdi, one of the pioneers of street music in Iran, decides to gather his previous band again in order to run a street music festival in Tehran.Yet there are lots of obstacles and difficulties he has to face on this pathway.

The life of an Iranian driver working in the United States, narrated by the daughter he doesn't have but could have had...

Sardasht is a kurdish city in West of Iran. Sardasht is the first city in the world to be victim of chemical weapons with mustard gas bombs at 4:15 p.m on Sunday, June 28th 1987. This film is about before, after the bombing, also a romantic relationship between a couple and finally, the effects of the post-war.

Documentary about an Iranian veteran

This experimental animation expresses the inner conflict of a migrant as they try to adjust to a new place.

An Iranian documentary

Scenes from the coronation of Ahmad Shah Qajar including preparation of the day and the city atmosphere.

A young woman sewing black shawl...

Sanaz, Saedeh, Tala, Ladan and Beheshteh, each with a unique story, but one thing in common: live in a women's shelter in the south-end of Tehran, either by choice or by force. But now they all aim to change their lives for better, even if it is just for a tiny bit.

In the year 1988, in an operation called "Anfal", Saddam Hussein commits genocide against 180,000 people of Iraqi Kurdistan. "If There Wouldn't Be Stories" is an experimental, poetic and archival documentary film about al-Anfal campaign.

"Lowland" is the result of 5 years, daily communication with those who lived on the outskirts of Tehran, Saeed's dumpsite, and collected recyclable garbages of Tehran.

"I have not been very active as a social filmmaker anymore after the revolution, though I had great plans and projects at the start of the revolution! So far I have made many so-called commissioned industrial films for national oil, gas, and steel companies as well as for government ministries, in which I tried to bring the films as close as possible to my taste and to my way of thinking and make the films' sponsors to see the world from content and formal viewpoints. Some of these films encountered serious censorship problems and part of them were cut for their public screenings, such as Gas, Fire, Wind and The Genaveh Project, both of which were filmed during the Iran-Iraq war." - Kamran Shirdel

This film is about human rights violations that took place during the Corona epidemic in Iran: a small part of the thousands of villages in this country that do not have schools. Many students in disadvantaged educational areas have to travel long distances to reach certain areas to connect to the Internet due to the lack of Internet antennas in their villages. And despite the coronavirus, they are forced to sit together in online classes.

The city of Isfahan, the ancient Persian capital and its stunning architecture, arts and traditions are featured in this documentary. Words and narrations are by the late Iranian poet, Ahmad Shamloo.

A Comedy film.

Nazarbazi [the play of glances] is a film about love and desire in Iranian cinema where depictions of intimacy and touch between women and men are prohibited.

To what extent will a mother go to protect her children, this short animation explores the love of a mother in the most powerful and heartbreaking way.

This documentary is a portrait of Dr. Badrulzman, a professor of linguistics, a member of the Persian Academy of Persian Language and Literature, and is one of the most persistent figures in the country.

An interview with the late Iranian singer, Khatereh Parvaneh.

A documentary about Hossein Monzavi (Persian: حسين منزوی) (23 September 1946 in Zanjan, Iran – 5 May 2004 in Tehran). Monzavi was a prominent Iranian poet, essayist, and translator who had great effects on Iranian literary mutating. Monzavi's reputation is in composing poems and his lyric poems are primarily in Persian, but he also has contributed to the Azerbaijani language.

A 50-year-old man living with his two children intends to change his gender, after years of struggle.