The Thief (1997)
62nd Berlinale. All the films in competition in Berlin
With Chinese film White Deer Plain by Wang Quan'an announced as the last candidate for the Golden..
A Tribute to Theo Angelopoulos: Eternity and a Day (1998)
Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize, Theo Angelopoulos’s deeply moving odyssey centers ...
84th Academy Awards. Nominations (2012)
Everyone expected The Artist to score a slew of Oscar nominations today, but the Academy is always full of surprises and snubs...
J. Edgar (2011)
As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held ...
Where Do We Go Now? (2011)
A group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village...
Iran's House of Cinema ruled illegal
The Iran Public Culture Council (IPCC) has ruled the Iranian House of Cinema (IHC) is illegal, the Persian service of FNA reported ...
Footnote (2011)
Footnote is the story of a great rivalry between a father and son. Both eccentric professors, they have dedicated their lives to their work...
In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
Angelina Jolie's debut film with harsh depiction of genocide in Bosnia have already sent shock waves through the Balkans...
A Separation, Wins At The Golden Globe Awards
Tonight A Separation, a film by Asghar Farhadi, won the Golden Globe Award for the Best...
The Artist crowned Best Film by American critics
Hollywood at the crossroads of silent and talking pictures. An extra- ordinary cinematic experience. Winner of Best Actor Award at...
Watch Crime And Punishment(2002, BBC)
In Dostoyevsky's tale of guilt and redemption, young Raskolnikov puts a horrific theory to the test. John Simm stars in this adaptation of...
von Trier courts Denmark's Bodils
von Trier courts Denmark's Bodils with six nominations for Melancholia. Considered in the Best Film Category, Melancholia was fought...
Bodil Award Winners 2012
The stage is set for an intense duel between von Trier's "Melancholia" and Pernille Christensen's "A Family" at this year's Bodil award in March..
Inside Job (2010)
From Academy Award® nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson, comes Inside Job, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008...
Milk (2008)
Recent high school graduate Yusuf is uncertain about his future in the provincial countryside. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and some of his poems are starting...
We Have a Pope (2011)
Is it anxiety? Is it depression? Does he feel inadequate? The faithful are waiting for the new Pope to appear on the balcony in St. Peter’s Square...
"The end part of Vaclav Havel interview" (2011)
While working on a documentary about Zygmunt Bauman Pawel Kuczynski had a privilege of interviewing Vaclav Havel ...
Golden Globe nominates 'A Separation'
Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi's latest production Nader and Simin: A Separation has been nominated for the 69th Annual Golden Globe...
Watch Camille Claudel (1988)
The film recounts the troubled life of French sculptor Camille Claudel and her long relationship with legendary sculptor Auguste Rodin...
Charlotte Corday (TV 2008)
Emilie Dequenne plays Charlotte Corday, the assassin of journalist and political Mountain Marat, trialed and guillotined July 17, 1793...
Watch Circumstance (2011)
A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession...
24th European Film Awards 2011
There was convicted Danish domination, as the 24th European Film Distribution was held. Lars von Trier's Melancholia won 3 awards...
The Satanic verses affair (2009)
Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his head. His novel, The Satanic Verses, had ...
If You Die, I'll Kill You (2011)
In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to...
Teheran 43 (1981)
Film depicting Nazi assassination plot in Teheran. The movie is about an assassination attempt on Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt during the Teheran Conference 1943 ...
Watch Circumstance (2011)
A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession. Set in Iran and ...
"Two years at Sea"
wins this year's major documentary award at CPH: DOX. The film runs with 5,000 euros in the main competition at CPH:DOX. Hermitic Jake listens to old phonograph...
All Hell Let Loose (2002)
The traditional power position of Sarbandi has been undermined by his being unemployed. It is the mother's sewing business that helps to...
In This World (2002)
As Winterbottom points out, we spent $7.9 billion bombing the Taliban regime. The question remains - how much do we owe those whose lives were ruined as a result?...
Watch Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1997)
Set in 16th century India, this movie depicts the story of two girls who were raised together even though they come from different social ...
Bahman Farmanara Banned from leaving Iran Iranian authorities have banned another director and producer, Bahman Farmanara, from leaving the country....
Watch The Green Ashes (1994)
In 1994, during the war, Hatamikia went to Bosnia, for having a first hand account of the situation. Despite critics' enthusiasm...
Watch Cinema Paradiso (1998) A famous film director receives news from his aging mother in a little town that someone he once knew has passed away. A beautiful story unfolds about...
Iranian Taboo (2011)
Iranian Taboo tells the harrowing story of Baha'i woman Nadereh and her 14-year-old daughter who decide to sell all their belongings and leave their home in Isfahan to take...
Iranian actress sentenced to lashes & prison In Iran, an actress is sentenced to 90 lashes and one year in prison because she starred in "My Tehran for Sale"...
Syria: Inside The Secret Revolution (2011)
After Libya, will Syria be the next Arab dictatorship to fall to people power? For months, a popular uprising has been fighting an ...
Von Trier questioned by police  Lars von Trier’s controversial Nazi statements at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year continue to dog the Danish film director...
Amnesty International Condemns Arrest of Filmmakers in Iran
Amnesty International condemns the arrest of six individuals — documentary filmmakers and ...
Watch Luna Papa (1999) Luna Papa is a humorous and fairy-tale story about love. The love of a mother for her son, of Icarus for the sun, and of a worm for the apple ...
Golden Icon Award to Sean Penn (2011)
This Year's most prestigious symbol of recognition in Zurich Film Festival, the Golden Icon Award, presented to Sean Penn on Sept. 28, 2011...
Iranian Filmmakers Speak Out! September (2011) Iran's House of Cinema is calling on authorities to observe the rights of filmmakers that have been arrested in the past week...
Narco War Next Door (2009)
Laura Ling delivers one of the most compelling looks we've seen at the the staggering war over control of narcotics taking place in Mexico...
Watch A New Day in Old Sana'a (2005)
 British Yemeni documaker Bader Ben Hirsi spins a pleasant Arabian fable in this exquisite romantic film advertised as the first feature film to come out of Yemen...
Screening Foreign Films in Iran (2011)
Public screening of foreign films has been very limited in Iran following the Islamic Revolution for two reasons. Firstly, most officials considered ...
The South (1988)
 After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires...
Que viva México! (1932)
Sergei Eisenstein shot ¡Que viva México! in Mexico in 1931 during the Great Depression, a project financed by the author Upton Sinclair, his wife Mary Craig and a few friends...
Unveiled Views (2008)
Muslim Artists Speak Out Spanish filmmaker Alba Sotorra hitchhiked from Barcelona to Pakistan, and along the way, she met five incredible women ...
Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999)
The plot is about the anonymous narrator of In Search of Lost Time who reflects on his past experiences while lying on his deathbed...
The 4th Annual IFF:
Press Release!
The 4th Annual Iranian Film Festival - San Francisco ended on September 11, 2011, after the screening of 39 films from 11 countries ...
Time to Leave (2005)   Romain, 31, a photographer, learns that a malignancy may kill him within a few months. Decisions: treatment? work? how to tell his lover and his family...
The Return (2003)   The Return tells the story of a father who returns after twelve years of absence to his wife and two boys, Andrei (aged 15) and Ivan (aged 12)...
Slavoj Zizek in Brazil - Interline (2011)  Enjoy this short interview with Zizek on Cinema and directors like Von Trier and kusturica, authors like paulo coelho, poetry and poets like karadzic etc...
The Feast of the Goat (2005)
Based on the best- selling novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, this is the story of Urania Cabral, a beautiful, kind, intelligent and independent...
Summer Celebration of Iranian Film Festival (2011)  Enjoy an outdoor summer exhibition celebrating the best of Iranian cinema at the Opera House - Holland Park . London Iranian ...
The Borgia (2006)
A portrait of the bloody dynasty that spawned a pope, Alexander VI, as well as the role model for Machiavelli's "The Prince," his son Cesare Borgia, and a legend of...
El Greco (2007)
An epic tale of an uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as «El Greco». Set in the 16th century, El Grecos...
Bhalo Theko (2003)
Nature, tradition and love are Anandi's pillars of support in difficult times. She stands against rootless internalisation and perplexed culture...
Watch Nikita Mikhalkov's Oblomov (1979) St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on...
Carlos (2010)
Carlos, directed by Olivier Assayas, is an epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sanchez, also known as...
Andersen: Life Without Love (2006)
The story of the life and creative work of a conflicted genius – a happy, unlucky, ill-fated favorite of fortune. The story revolves ...
4th Annual Iranian Film Festival, San Francisco (2011)
The 4th Annual Iranian Film Festival - San Francisco, a showcase for the independent feature and short...
2nd London Iranian Film Festival (2011)
On November 18th, 2011, the 2nd London Iranian Film Festival will have its Opening Night at a prestigious London venue...
Barfly (1987)
Downtrodden writer Henry (Mickey Rourke) and distressed goddess Wanda (Faye Dunaway) aren’t exactly husband and wife: they’re wedded to their bar stools....
Visitor (2007)
The Visitor is a simmering drama about a college professor and recent widower, Walter Vale (Jenkins), who discovers a pair of illegal aliens...
Melancholia (2011)
Two sisters find their relationship challenged as a planet threatens to collide with the Earth. Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party...
The Tree of Life (2011) "Many films diminish us. They cheapen us, masturbate our senses, hammer us with shabby thrills, diminish the value of life. Some few films evoke the wonderment..."
Film Socialism (2010)
A symphony in three movements. Things such as: The Mediterranean, a cruise ship. Numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the...
Cannes 2011 - Robert De Niro: An impressive track record Robert De Niro: "I don't know what I'm looking for. It's not every day you get to see 20 films in such a short space of time..."
Cannes 2011. New Films by Panahi and Rasoulof!
Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof will be in Cannes with two films that have...
Cinematheque Copenhagen (2011) New Iranian films much more than a VILLAGE-Minimalism. What do you say to an Iranian nuclear plant-spy drama with foreign villains?
Mehrjui to make English film on Rumi (2011)
Rumi's Kimia is a film in development directed by Dariush Mehrjui starring Golshifteh Farahani and based on a novel by Saideh Ghods...
Superman to Become World Citizen (2011) The famous comic-book hero Superman has announced plans to speak at the United Nations to renounce his American citizenship and...
Departures (2008)
With the breakup of his Tokyo orchestra, Daigo, a young cellist, decides to return with his adoring wife Mika to his hometown in Japan’s far north. Searching for work...
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) On the 20-year anniversary of his groundbreaking masterpiece Roger & Me, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story comes home to the issue...
The Desert of Forbidden Art (2010)
How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists who stay true to their vision are executed, sent to mental ...
Francesco (1989) Told in flashback, the film relates Francis of Assisi’s evolution from rich man’s son to religious humanitarian and eventually to full-fledged saint. Francesco was based on...
Bier's 'Better World' wins Oscar (2011)
In A Better World, directed by Susan Bier wins the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar...
2 Iranian filmmakers get 6-year prison terms
Prominent Iranian opposition filmmakers sentenced to six years in jail each on charges of working against the ruling system...
Berlinale 2011. Golden Bear for "Nader and Simin, a Separation"
What a night for Asghar Farhadi's film. Not only has the International Jury of this year's Berlinale...
In Praise of Love (2001)
Someone we hear talking – but whom we do not see – speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, passion, arguments and separation...
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2006)
This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run...
Pina (2011)
Wim Wenders has just dedicated a movie to Pina Bausch, and a phrase that she used to love saying again and again: Pina. Dance, dance otherwise we are lost...
R (2010)
This hard-hitting drama, an anthropological study of life in a Danish prison, portrays R who has been sentenced to prison for violence. He's insistent on...
Nawal El Saadawi: Egypt's radical writer (2011)
has braved prison, exile and death threats in her fight against female oppression. And she isn't about...
Jesus Politics (2008)
After fighting as an Israeli soldier in the 1973 war, and troubled by the nation's obsessive mixing of the Bible with politics, the filmmaker, Ilan Ziv, left for America...
Videocracy (2009)
In Videocracy, Italian-born director Erik Gandini portrays the consequences of a TV-experiment that Italians have been subjected to for 30 years....
Valley of the Wolves: Palestine (2011)
Polat Alemdar and his men comprise a Turkish commando team are going to Palestine to get revenge of the aid workers who were killed ...
Cairo Time (2009)
Vaguely dissatisfied with her job, Juliette follows her Canadian diplomat husband, Mark (Tom McCamus), to Cairo...
In a Better World (2010)
Few directors have addressed the issues of the past decade as courageously as Denmark’s Susanne Bier...
The Milk of Sorrow (2009)
Fausta suffers from ‘the milk of sorrow’, a melancholy transmitted through her mother’s breast milk. For Fausta’s mother was raped ...
Defamation (2009)
What is anti-Semitism today, two generations after the Holocaust? In his continuing exploration of modern Israeli life, director Yoav Shamir travels the world in search of...
Pearls on the Ocean Floor (2010)
Pearls on the Ocean Floor is a thought-provoking documentary examining the lives of Iranian female artists living and...
UK Iranian Film Festival (2010)
The 1st London Iranian Film Festival (UKIFF) is the first one of its kind to take place in the UK...
The Four Times (2010)
The main prize at this year's documentary film festival in Copenhagen, CPH: DOX, go to "La quattro volte," writes the Danish Film Institute in a press release...
Four Lions (2010)
In a British city, four men have a secret plan. Omar is disillusioned about the treatment of muslims around the world and is determined to become a soldier...
Armadillo (2010)
ARMADILLO literally explodes on the screen. Unlike any other war documentary this astute exploration of the culture of war matches young soldiers' hyper state...
Nostalgia for the Light (2010) In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift ...
Backyard (2009)
Sometime in 1996, a terrifying phenomenon surfaced in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. In this now-infamous city, young women are regularly murdered...
Silent Souls (2010)
After a man’s young wife dies suddenly (the cause is never disclosed) he enlists the help of a colleague in disposing of the body in accordance with the local custom...
Of Gods and Men (2010) is a 2010 French drama film directed by Xavier Beauvois. It centers around an actual event in 1996, when seven French Trappist monks were kidnapped and...
Arusi, The Persian Wedding (2009)
A delicate, elegant, moving portrayal of an Iranian-American family, divided by politics, united by love...
Veiled Voices (2009)
Women across the Arab world are redefining their role as leaders in Islam. Veiled Voices investigates the world of Muslim women religious leaders through the eyes of...
Pather Panchali (TIFF, 2010)
On Saturday, October 16th, TIFF will screen Satyajit Ray’s classic Pather Panchali, one of the first of the legendary director's films...
The Power of Nightmares (2004)
The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis...
Dreyer film voted most influential (2010)
Dreyer’s 1928 masterpiece ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc’ gets top honours from TIFF. Dreyer’s silent film masterpiece from 1928 edged..
Sergio (2009)
A look at the life and work of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and the rescue operation when he was trapped and injured by a bomb..
The Cove (2009)
In a sleepy lagoon off the coast of Japan lies a shocking secret that a few desperate men will stop at nothing to keep hidden from the world. In Taiji, Japan...
Paradise Now (2005)
Said (Kais Nashef) is a young Palestinian living in Nablus, and working as a mechanic. He gets his friend Khaled (Ali Suliman) a job, but the hot-tempered and impulsive...
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)
takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. The charismatic Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian..
Opium War (2008) A 2008 Afghan black comedy film directed by Siddiq Barmak. The film was shot entirely in Afghanistan and revolves around the experiences of two American soldiers..
American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein (2009)
"American Radical is a nuanced and powerful portrait of the scholar Norman Finkelstien, one of the..
The Stoning of Soraya M (2008) A drama set in 1986 Iran and centered on a man, whose car breaks down in a remote village and enters into ..
War (Uerra) (2009)
Italy summer of 1946. The war has ended but there are no signs of peace between fascist Paolo and socialist Luigi. A Film by Paolo Sassanelli
Sita Sings the Blues (2008) Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email..
Iranian Women Filmmakers (2002)
While film-making in Iran remains a sensitive and intensely political process, women film-makers have..
The Queen and I (2008) Three decades after leaving her home country, Iranian filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani decided to make..
Plaisir d'amour en Iran (1976)
Made at a time when Iran had a seemingly revolving door for incoming European directors and bottomless funding for..
Iran (1971)
Far more than a travelogue with pretty pictures, this little-known film won six international awards..
Father of My Children (2009)
is the story of Paris-based film producer Grégoire Canvel (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) that has it all — a wife and three daughters...
A Family (2010)
Ditte is a member of the Rheinwalds, a family of bakers. She is also a successful gallery owner and constantly on the move. Having been offered her dream job..
Of Gods and Men (2010)
is a 2010 French drama film directed by Xavier Beauvois. It centers around an actual event in 1996, when seven French Trappist monks were kidnapped and...
Crude (2009)
Director Joe Berlinger continues in the tradition of his justice-driven films Brother's Keeper and Paradise Lost with this documentary...
Katyn (2007)
Katyń is the name of the forest where the Soviets secretly murdered 15,000 Polish officers, intellectuals and professionals over a 3-day period...
Honey (2010)
The Turkish film "Bal" won a Golden Bear and the red carpets in the German capital are all rolled up for this year's 60th Berlin Film Festival...
Amreeka (2009)
Tells the story of a Palestinian woman, Muna, and her teenage son, Fadi. After winning the green card lottery, they move to a suburb of Chicago..”
Burma VJ (2008) Armed with pocket-sized video cameras, a tenacious band of Burmese reporters face down death to expose the repressive regime controlling their...
The White Ribbon (2009) According to Haneke, the film is about “the origin of every type of terrorism, be it of political or religious nature..”
Lebanon (2009) tells the story of Israeli paratroopers searching a hostile town. The movie is a look at war from inside a military tank by Israeli helmer Samuel Maoz, based..
Waltz with Bashir (2009) One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs..
American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan (2006) provides rare insight into one of the most critical issues of our time, and into the soul of a man with no..
A Prophet (2009) Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison..
David & Fatima (2008) An Israeli - Palestinian Love Story: Only crazy people change the world. A drama about a Palestinian woman and Israeli man from Jerusalem who fall in..
Scheherazade Tell Me a Story (2009) Hebba Younis is a fiercely independent talk-show host that is married to Karim Hassan, a needy newspaper editor..
Terribly Happy (2008) Robert has a number of skeletons in his closet, which he is determined to bury. Although hardly his dream job, Robert sees the position of temporary village constable ...
My Iranian Paradise (2008) A personal film about Iranian history and Persian culture by a Danish filmmaker who spent most of her childhood and youth in Tehran...
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (2003) An old monk educates a child in a one-room Buddhist monastery floating in the middle of a lake in Korea..
We Shall Overcome (2006) 13-year-old Frits has fallen out of favour with the headmaster of his provincial school. The year is 1969. The world is changing..
Bab’Aziz (2006) “An Arabian dream that weaves timeless story threads with mystical and Sufi elements into a beautiful film object..
The Kite Runner (2007) Based on one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, 'The Kite Runner' is a profoundly emotional tale of friendship, family..
A New Day in Old Sana'a (2005) Filmed entirely on location in the ancient city of Sana'a, this exquisite film is the first feature ever to come out of Yemen..
Iraq In Fragments (2006) "Iraq in Fragments" paints three pictures of Iraq -- Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurdish -- through the eyes of its people as they struggle to..
Cuore sacro (2005) a "love story", of a woman coming to her truest self, her "sacred heart... cuore sacro", in a confrontation with her past, and the memory of her...
4 months 3 weeks 2 days(2007) Otilla and Găbiţă share the same room in a student dormitory. They are colleagues at the University in this small town...
The Lives of Others (2007) East Berlin, November 1984. Five years before its downfall, the former East-German government ensured its claim to power with a...
Babel (2006) In the remote sands of the Moroccan desert, a rifle shot rings out – detonating a chain of events that will link an American tourist couple's frantic struggle to survive ...
Caché (Hidden)(2005) Georges, who hosts a TV literary review, receives packages containing videos of himself with his family--shot secretly ...
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) Emmanuelle Béart handed the the Palme d'Or to The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Ken Loach ...
Volver (2006) The film, which stars Penelope Cruz and Carmen Maura is a meeting of "Mildred Pierce" (Michael Curtiz) and "Arsenic and Old Lace" (Frank Capra) ...
The Road to Guantánamo (2006) In September 2001, the mother of Pakistani Asif Iqbal returns to Tripton in England. She has found a bride for his son in a ...
The Syrian Bride(2004) Directed with equal parts humor and humanity, THE SYRIAN BRIDE by Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis, is set on the sun-baked border between Israel..
Nobody Knows (2004) Four siblings live happily with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo. In fact, the children all have different fathers and...
Live and Become (2005) Copenhagen, Denmark, aug 18-28. Radu Mihaileanu's film "Live and Become" won the top danish golden Swan prize ..
The Return (2003) The Return tells the story of a father who returns after twelve years of absence to his wife and two boys, Andrei (aged 15) and Ivan (aged 12)..
About Baghdad (2004) In July of 2003, exiled writer and poet Sinan Antoon returned to his native Baghdad with a team of independent filmmakers, artists..
Monsieur Ibrahim (2003) Omar Sharif breaks his self-imposed exile from acting to star as an elderly Muslim widower from Turkey who develops a friendship with a ..
Le Couperet (2005) With Le Couperet the Grand Old Man of the political thriller has based his story on something as topical as growing unemployment ...
Dogville (2003) Set in an American Town in the Rocky Mountains in the 1930s. Lars von Trier re-explores the concept of goodness, but..
Broken Flowers (2005) Winner of the 2005 Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, the film tells the story of a man overflowing with wealth but void of emotion..
Downfall (2004) Berlin, April 1945. A nation awaits its downfall. Fighting rages in the streets of the capital. Hitler and his closest confidantes have barricaded...
In the Mood for Love (2000) Hong Kong, 1962. Chief editor of a local daily newspaper, Chau and his wife move into new accommodation in a building mainly..
Elephant (2003) In a more equitable world, Gus Van Sant's Columbine-inspired Elephant would be required viewing in every American high school...
Brothers (2004) At first sight brothers Michael and Jannick couldn't be more dissimilar. Jannick, a selfish waster and drifter, has just been released from prison after a six month ..
No Man's Land (2001) Ciki and Nino, a Bosnian and a Serb, are soldiers stranded in a trench between enemy lines ..
Songs from the Second Floor (2000) Swedish-language dark comedy about an imperiled immigrant, a crucifix salesman, an insane poet, ..
Yi Yi (2000) With the lively contemporary family drama Yi Yi, Taiwanese superdirector Edward Yang hits his full stride, breezing by...
Osama (2003)
A 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother lose their jobs when the Taliban closes the hospital where they work...
Power and Terror (2002)
Chomsky helps to put the tragic events of 9/11 in the proper context. It may not please some people to be ...
Jenin, Jenin (2002)
"I hope they will censor every film I do. I want them to understand my reality, another truth..." -Director Mohamed Bakri
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Micheal Moore, one of the best, does it again with the Cannes Film Festival winning and soon to be Academy...
Silent Waters (2003)
Pakistan’s Silent Waters wins top Swiss film prize. Silent Waters is the first film of its kind entirely shot in Pakistan...
Granny (2003)
Russian filmmaker Lidiya Bobrova won two awards at the Copenhagen International Film Festival — best movie and best script..
Luna Papa (1999)
In a small village not far from Samarkand, seventeen-year-old Mamlakat dreams of becom- ing an actress..
Talk to Her (2002)
"Talk to Her" begins where the acclaimed "All About My Mother" ended, with the camera framed upon...
Chronicle of Love and Pain (2002)
"The film isn't an historical or anthropological study," Suleiman says...
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1997)
"is the story of a young woman named Maya who has always been lower on the social scale than her well-born friend Tara ...
Ararat (2002)
Atom Egoyan's heartfelt passion project "Ararat" is an abstractly structured account of both the 1915-1923 Armenian genocide...
The Man Without a Past(2002)
This wry comedy takes an affectionate look at the ‘dregs’ of Finnish society, in the manner of a ‘50s B-movie...
The King of Masks (1996)
The King of Masks is a tour de force, a rare movie where every char- acter demands your full attention and you are...
The Crazy Stranger (1998)
Another seductive exploration of Gypsy culture in this vibrant tale of a young Parisian who comes to Romania...
Benjamin's Woman (1991)
This well-cragted and intelligent movie with its critically acclaimed ensemble cast unfolds the conflict and frustration that can arise out of ...
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  Salve (2011)
A sickly but devoted old woman, Aziz, tries to help her granddaughter Maryam, a skittish addict, to survive in Teheran’s tortured underground. Beaten by her father with a belt, Maryam hastens to escape her strict household...
Wind Blows in the Meadow (2009)
Shooka, a spirited, hardworking girl from an Iranian mountain village is to be married in an arranged marriage. Shokrollah, her neighbor with Down syndrome, has been head over heels in love with Shooka since they were children, and so ...
  Watch The Brick and The Mirror (1965)
A Tribute to Ebrahim Golestan
Available in English and persian
Golestan has made only two features, Brick and Mirror and The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries (1972). Only seven years separate them, but they hardly seem the work of the same man....
A Cube of Sugar (2011)
The story happens in an old family house in an old city of Iran. The silence of the house is broken with the arrival of some guests. Because of the wedding of the youngest sister in the family, Pasandide, her four elder sisters come to their old family house to help their mother...
  Good Bye - Be Omid E Didar (2011)
Be Omid e Didar is a subtly intelligent film about repression and desire for freedom in Iran. It is astonishing that Mohammad Rasoulof, who is convicted to prison and banned from working, could get permission to shoot this film because of its extremely critical content ...
Nader and Simin, a Separation (2011)
Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. She has already made all the necessary arrangements. Nader, however, is having second thoughts. He is worried about leaving behind his father, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s...
  Goodbye Tehran - Khodahafez Tehran (1966)
A girl ("Dokhtar") who loved her young master never dared to disclose her love to him due to her being blind. When the young master returns from a journey to Europe with his new foreign wife, she loses all her hopes. From then on she spends all her love on the nursing profession until the war breaks out and ...
O.K. Mister (1978)
A LOST IRANIAN COMIC MASTERPIECE
OK MISTER is one of the most bizarre films ever made in Iran - especially as a comedy. Actually there are very few good comedies in the entire history of Iranian, for a very understandable reason. Comedies are usually concerned with criticizing personalities, and the red lines and limits imposed by either government or society...
  Iran’s Green Summer (2010)
Remember the protests and brutal violence which shook post-election Iran in the summer of 2009? This is a documentary composed of real footage and animated scenes, with much of the film narrated by bloggers who experienced the protests. Demonstrations began as a call for fair elections in which...
Ashkan, The charmed ring and other stories (2009)
A police officer who is unhappily in love with a cashier, a sculptor who dreams of emigrating, a young man who constantly tries to commit suicide, and, in the midst of it all, two blind jewellery thieves, who are about to make the heist of their lives...
  Gold and Copper (2011)
A tough Islamic mullah-in-training must deal with real-worldly issues when his wife is bedridden with multiple sclerosis. In Iran this is a startling a reversal of gender roles... Seyed Reza has just moved with his family to Tehran so he can study the Koran, and he relies on his lovely wife Zahra...
THIS IS NOT A FILM (2011)
A day of the life of an Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, before the celebration of the new Iranian year (NORUZ). This Is Not a Film, was reported to be smuggled to the Croisette via a cake from Iran...
  Report of a Party (2011)
"Report of a party" is a film about a society's inflamed matters and focuses on the problems of young people as one of contemporary iranian society's dominant crises. "Report of a Party" is a critical look at the June 2009 elections...
Nader and Simin, a Separation (2011)
Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. She has already made all the necessary arrangements. Nader, however, is having second thoughts. He is worried about leaving behind his father, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s...
  The Hunter (2010)
One day, Ali comes home from work to discover that his wife and daughter, Sara and Saba, have disappeared. Realising that there’s no point in waiting for them any more, Ali decides to go to the police. But there’s chaos at the police station and it takes hours for him to discover anything. Finally ...
Talking with a Shadow (2006)
Sadegh hedayat is undoubtedly one of the most influential contemporary writers of Iran. However, after over 50 years from his time, still two groups can not tolerate speaking of him: his adamant supporters and opponents...
  Fire Keeper (2009)
Sohrab, a 48 year-old man, the head of the workers of the Isfahan Foundry, have just had his fourth daughter. He has a strong desire to have a son, but his wife can not have another pregnancy for health reasons. So she forces her husband to go to do a vasectomy, which will definitely makes him infertile...
Two-Legged Horse (2008)
A father who has a young son with one leg and no other household members must go to India for some weeks. He hires another boy for a dollar a day to carry the son around on his back, to the school or to whatever whims may occur to the son...
  The Green Wave (2010)
Animated blogs and tweets from Iran form the backbone of this enlightening and sometimes shocking reconstruction of the 2009 Green Revolution. In May of that year, the youthful green-clad crowds were still enraged, and the atmosphere in the stadium where...
My Tehran for Sale (2009)
Debut film by the Iranian female poet Granaz Moussavi is about the secret double life that many young people lead in repressive Iran. They can only be themselves and express themselves behind closed doors. The film shows an underground scene in Teheran that is never reflected in the media (IFFR)...
  Tehroun (2009)
Ibrahim left his family to try his luck in Tehran. But in this asphalt jungle where everything can be bought and sold a dream can easily become a nightmare. Involved into the traffic of new-born children, Ibrahim plunges into the city seedy areas, in Tehroun...
The Accordion (2010)
One of the most celebrated Iranian and international artists compresses his storytelling and reflections in a short film that not only captures Tehran today, but also serves as a metaphor on violence, tolerance and hope. It was, in fact, Jafar Pahani’s vitality and courage here that sparked...
  The Orion (2010)
Fully financed by Esmati and shot on location without seeking any official permits, Orion is a dread-filled, admittedly rough- around-the-edges look into a twilight Iran where threat and danger lurk beyond every corner...
Women Without Men (2009)
Shirin Neshat's first feature length film, is based on a magic realist novel written by Iranian author Sharnush Parsipour. The narrative interweaves the lives of four Iranian women during the summer of 1953, a pivotal moment in Iranian history when an ...
  The Song Of Sparrows (2008)
Karim’s life on an ostrich farm with his family in a rural village west of Tehran is turned upside down when a particulary ornery ostrich escapes his care at work and he is subsequently fired from his job. Karim then sets off toward ...
No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009)
After having been released from jail, a young girl and boy roam the heart of Tehran and start an underground journey to form a new band, and find, one by one, members among hidden underground music groups...
  Tehran Has No More Pomegranates! (2007)
In this experimental documentary from filmmaker Massoud Bakhshi, viewers are invited to watch the evolution of Tehran from its inception to it's transformation into the capitol of...
The Green Fire (2008)
A great film unknown outside of iran. “Atash-e sabz” [The Green fire] is brilliant and great. Shot in some kind of Mizoguchian style, and based on iranian history, narrated in 7 episodes it shows a different view from Iran and its cinema...
  The Night Bus (2007)
Persian director Kiumars Poorahmad's minimalist, black-and-white war drama Night Bus travels back to the Iran-Iraq conflict of the mid-1980s, when three Iranian soldiers are forced to transport 38 Iraqi prisoners-of-war to their home base in a half-dilapidated bus...
There Are Things You Don't Know (2010)
KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic -- Iranian filmmaker Fardin Saheb Zamani's film about a taxi-driver's ordinary encounters in the 10 days before a predicted earthquake in Tehran has the beguiling title "There Are Things You Don't Know"...
  Heiran (2009)
A headstrong Iranian adolescent falls in love with an illegal Afghan worker in the concise social-problem drama "Heiran," the first fiction feature from documaker Shalizeh Arefpour. Tale's poignant expression of parental hopes, fears and disappointments will strike a universal chord...
Forbidden Tree (2010) 
A story of an imaginary city under a harsh ruler. Love is forbidden, and freedom a distant memory. Few people have the courage to fall in love, challenging the forbidden symbols....This film has no dialogue because the people are too scared to express themselves...
  Nothing (2009)
A man with eating disorder who cannot satisfy his own hunger, has now a large family to support too. The movie narrates the story of a poor family in south of Tehran, their relations and painful fate...
Niloofar (2008) 
Niloofar, a 12-year-old Iraqi girl, dreams of reading and writing, but she lives in a village where education is only for boys. Her mother, a well-known midwife, insists..
  Twenty (2009)
Twenty is about a reception hall's staff, who fear for their jobs after the owner decides to sell the place in twenty days. The psychological drama made its international debut in Karlovy Vary after participating in numerous...
Qaleh - Women's Quarter (1966-1980)  
Qal'eh (aka Women's Quarter) depicts the life condition of prostitutes in Tehran's red-light district during the mid-sixties. A deeply moving documentary by Kamran Shirdel. 1966 - 1980 / 18 min. / Black & White / Shot in 35 mm / Watch it with English subtitle...
  For a Moment, Freedom (2009)
The young Austrian-Iranian filmmaker Arash T. Riahi depicts the plight of people trying to flee their homeland and the curious, transitory state of asylum-seekers with tragic comedy and great suspense...
In the Colour Purple (2010)
Banned in Iran since 2004
The film, which tells the story of a romance between an Iranian intelligence agent and the daughter of an opposition group leader, was withdrawn from the screening schedule of the 23rd Fajr International Film Festival 2005 by Hatamikia due to the objections of the Intelligence Ministry..		  
  Women Without Men (2009)
Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship ...
Green Days (2009)
Ava is a depressed Iranian Girl. She goes to psychologist for treatment. She sees past political incident in Iran as the cause of her depression. The psychologist advise her to do some labor work like cleaning the staircases and even asks her to work on a play. However, her play, which is inspired by the reality and the problem in her society, gets banned. ..		  
  About Elly (2009)
One of the most remarkable Iranian films to surface in the last few years, About Elly is a small but compelling ensemble piece of surprising depth. It's one of those rare films that can be read on one level purely as a satisfying drama, but which also has a rich, independent inner life, centred on big questions about...
Winter sleep (2008)
Three siblings struggle to find success and happiness in this drama from Iranian filmmaker Siamak Shayeghi. After the death of their parents, sisters Farida (Fatemeh Motamed Aria), Farzhaneh (Ladan Mostofi) and Fereshteh (Pegah Ahangarani) were left to fend for themselves, with eldest Farida becoming the de-facto head of the household..		  
  As Simple as That (2008)
A wife and mother finds herself hovering on the verge of a breakdown in this psychological drama from Iran. Tahareh (Hengameh Ghaziani) lives with her husband, her son and her daughter in a middle-class neighborhood, and she devotes her days to looking after their needs...
Colors of Memory (2008)
Filled with denial and distrust, heart surgeon Dr. Bahman Parsa (Shahbaz Noshir) returns to his home country Iran after 30 years in Germany. There he meets two men who will change his attitude towards life: Ghanati (Ezatollah Entezami), a 70 year old waterfinder and Bahrami, a young and reckless taxi driver..		  
  Hafez (2007)
Hafez falls in love with his mentor's daughter, Nabat. However, it is a forbidden love, and the two are pulled apart. Will they ever be reunited... The latest film directed by the Iranian genius, Abolfazl Jalili. Iranian version of “Romeo and Juliet”..
Tomorrow (2007)
Setsuo Nakayama's Farda is an unusual fish-out-of-water story. Japanese businessman Izava (Kai Shishido) works for an auto manufacturer. Izava is saddened by the death of a man who ran a plant that Izava was ordered to close. Murata had a dying wish to see one of his workers get a large payment...		  
  The Musician (2006)
A very famous and successful Santoor ( Iranian traditional instrument ) player falls in the trap of drugs and loses everything in his life gradually ! even his wife who was in love with him ..
Offside (2006)
Who is that strange boy sitting quietly in the corner of a bus full of screaming fans going to the football match? In fact, this shy boy is a girl in disguise. She is not alone; women also love football in Iran. Before the game begins, she is arrested at the check point...		  
  Poet of the wastes (2005)
With a spare, conceptual screenplay by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the grandfather of Iranian cinema, comes a remarkable debut from director Mohammad Ahmadi. This is an unusual fare from Tehran: a film whose intent is to steer absolutely clear of political commentary ...
Ahmad Shamlou : Master Poet Of Liberty (1999)
A documentary about the most important modern Iranian poet and intellectual icon. This was perhaps the first time that the Iranian documentary cinema made a film of a prominent personality and a contemporary poet during their life... 		 
Caramel (2007)

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