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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 ... |
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Gozaresh-e yek jashn (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 ... |
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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... |
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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... |
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The Hunter (2010) Ali has recently been released from prison and is now working as a night watchman in Tehran. This factory job now means that he is at least able to support his small family comprising his wife Sara and their daughter, Saba. |
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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... |
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Fire Keeper - Atashkar (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... |
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Khabe Zemestani (2008) Three siblings struggle to find success and happiness in this drama from Iranian filmmaker Siamak Shayeghi. After the death of their parents ... |
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Be Hamin Sadegi (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 ... |
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Half Moon (2007)
Mamo, the old renowned Kurdish musician, has begun a journey to Iraq with his sons to perform a music concert after the fall of Sadam Hossein. On the journey, a middle aged man who is Mamo’s follower escorts him and the sons as a driver of ... |
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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 Islamic Republic and one of the most polluted cities on the planet... |
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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”... |
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Mina-ye shahr-e khamoosh (2007) 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 ... |
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Café Setareh (2006) Through the watchful eye of director Saman Moghaddam, we follow the lives of three Iranian women: Faribah, who runs the neighborhood Café Setareh; young Salome, who dreams of marriage and a comfortable life... |
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Ali santoori - 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 .he struggles to give up smoking and finds his way to ... |
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Nose, iranian style - Damagh be sabke irani (2006)
This documentary is about nose job (nose surgery) in Iran that statistically has the highest rank. The film is researching for what Iranian young generation is so interested in changing the appearance... |
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Mim mesle Madar - M for Mother (2006) Back to the movie. There is a lot of friction between the couple, with the husband wanting to abort the fuck out of the baby, because he doesn’t want something looking like ET to be his son. They do try to, but mothers being angels ... |
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Yek shab - One Night (2006)
In this first feature film by actress Niki Karimi (THE HIDDEN HALF), a teenaged girl's travels through Tehran after dark expose a crisis in Iranian sexual mores, as well as offering a tantalizing glimpse of the city's night people ... |
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Stray Dogs (Sag-haye Velgard) (2006) While picking through rags and refuse in a wintry Kabul, a little girl rescues a button-eyed white puppy trapped in a smoking hellhole, where tormenting urchins wave a fiery circle of flaming torches above as they displace their accumulated ... |
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Bab'Aziz (2006)
A visual poem of incomparable beauty, this masterpiece from director Nacer Khemir (Wanderers of the Desert) begins with the story of a blind dervish named Bab’Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar.. |
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Talking with a Shadow (2006)
Based on the life and works of Sadegh Hedayat, famous Iranian Writer. Sadegh hedayat is undoubtedly one of the most influential contemporary writers of Iran... |
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GOODBYE, LIFE (2006) The first feature by Iranian filmmaker Ensieh Shah-Hosseini is based on her eight-year-long experience as a journalist during the 1980’s Iran/Iraq war. Maryam, the film’s heroine, goes to the war zone as a photographer as a way of ... |
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Offside (2005)
Who is that strange-looking boy sitting in the corner of the bus in the midst of all the raucous football fans on the way to the stadium? If one were to look a little more closely, however, one can see that it is not a boy but a girl, dressed in boy’s garb ... |
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We Are All Fine - (Ma Hameh Khoubim) (2005) Director Bijan Mirbagheri seems to have taken a cue from American independents in this tale of a dysfunctional middle-class family whose private animosities explode when a video camera comes into their midst. Oldest son Jamshid has been ... |
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Poet of the wastes (2005) In the streets of Teheran, a street-sweeper-poet learns the most intimate secrets of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, when he examines their bags of rubbish. One day he finds a desperate letter from a woman. He begins to write to her and follows her ... |
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Day Break - Dame Sobh (2005) In Iran, capital punishment is carried out according to Islamic law, which gives the family of the victim ownership of the offender’s life. Day Break - based on a compilation of true stories and shot inside Tehran's century-old prison - revolves around ... |
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The Fish Fall in Love - Mahiha ashegh mishavand (2005)
The Fish Fall in Love by {Ali Rafi'i} is a simple and gentle film that adapts the same language of food, this time from northern Iranian cuisine, to speak of life. This is a film that will leave its taste ... |
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Iron Island - (Jazireh ahani) (2005) Some poor people in the Southern coasts of Iran do not have any place to live, and thus, they reside on an old, abandoned ship in the sea. Captain Nemat, their chief, tries to persuade the ship-owner and the official authorities not to get the ship back... |
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Café Transit (2005) An independent-minded widow bucks tradition to run her dead husband's truck stop cafe. In Reyhan's village, it is a tradition for widows to marry their brothers-in-law, who assume the burden of a second wife and their children. But Reyhan will have nothing to do with her late mate's lascivious brother. |
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Ashk-e sarma - The Tear of the Cold (2004)
Pictures the story of a soldier expert at defusing mines and a Kurdish shepherdess, apparently just grazing her flock in the war zone, but deep inside full of hatred with army forces. In the chilly border zone of Kurdistan, where the soldier keeps ... |
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Tradition of Lover Killing (2004) It tells a heartbroken story of a family in a small Iran village. Mirza Agha's conspiracy leads to the arrest and imprisonment of illegal woodcutter, Salar. Having lost the only income, the poor family face the even more severe poverty... |
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White Nights (2003) A young university professor, who leads a quiet and reclusive life and fills his life with reading and teaching literature, meet a young girl who has altered the course of her life for the sake of a man she loves. She has promised to meet her beloved at ... |
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Gav khuni (2003) It's all in the narrator's mind, and words, in "The River's End," an intensely artistic art film by veteran Behrooz Afkhami. The visuals silently illustrate the first-person voice-over of a young man haunted by the memory of his dead father ... |
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The Last Supper - Shame Akhar (2002) In this searing domestic drama about a very unique love triangle, a professor of architecture history divorces her husband after 26 years of marriage. She returns to the house of her father, along with her supportive daughter, to begin life anew.. |
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Women’s Prison (2002) In the event of a violent riot in a women’s prison in Tehran, Tahereh is sent by the authorities to suppress the revolt. She manages to crush the riot through harshness and she comes across a young girl, Mitra, who has been given a life sentence for killing her ... |
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The Winter Song (2002) The magic melody of "Nature" has always been pulling me and none of my works are free of this tight and invisible attachment. THE WINTER SONG is a song inspired from Nature and is dedicated to the Nature.. we understand that in this "Magic Trip" ... |
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Lineless paper (2002) A woman, who in her dreams believes herself to be a successful writer, in her real life has problems in her relation to her husband ...
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Pest (2002) Nima Dadgar, a 50 year old popular actor married a young lady called Ghazal. He is playing in a film when some mysterious telephone calls from an unknown woman hurts their relationship. The woman tells Nima that he has killed his x-wife ... |
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Ten (2002) Ten sequences in the emotional lives of six women and the challenges that they face at one particular moment in those lives, that could just as easily be ten sequences in the emotional life of the one same woman ...
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I, Taraneh, Am Fifteen (2001) The special jury prize (Locarno Film Fistival) went to the Iranian film "Man, Taraneh, Panzdah Sal Daram (I, Taraneh, Am Fifteen), the fifth film of Rassul Sadr-Ameli, depicting the precarious lives of women in Iran. Taraneh Allidousti, who played ... |
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Dog killing (2001) Killing Mad Dogs is Bahram Beyzaie's first film in a dozen years. To many outside the country Beyzaie is primarily known through Bashu, the Little Stranger. Bashu had to wait many years before it got permission for release. It was then ... |
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Baran (2001)
In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17 years old Iranian worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives. |
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Az Kenare ham migozarim (2001) The events in the film occur during one day, from dawn to sunset. Four cars, carrying people from different social groups, are driving toward the northern region of the country for different purposes. They don't know one another ... |
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You are free (2001) "The past, present and whatever that is destined to happen in future are what the film is all about. The causes of crime, the roles the family and society play, and the efforts to re-educate juvenile delinquents at reformatory centers are of ..." |
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Djomeh (2001) Djomeh is a young Afghan man working on a small dairy farm in Iran. Despite being an outsider, Djomeh maintains an upbeat spirit and friendly manner. When he falls in love with a local woman, customs don't allow for an open courtship ... |
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Secret Ballot (2001) On a distant Iranian island, a soldier (Cyrus Abidi) finds that today will not be any ordinary day. It's Election Day. First of all, a ballot box is parachuted out of the sky. Then the government election official arrives ... |
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Children of Petroleum (2001)
In the absence of the father, members of a family are obliged to manage their lives. 11-year-old son of the family rises against the injustice that oppresses them and ultimately saves his sister from the evil that threatens her... |
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Rain Man (2000) Barani is the story of a lost generation that has neither a place in the past nor the youthful bravado of facing the future. Barani is the story of a generation that, disappointed with the past and fearful of the future, has only the transient present moment ... |
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Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (2000) "Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine is the product of the liberal political atmosphere of the past couple of years, and that is why I have tried my film to be a mirror reflecting what is happening to ... |
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Born Under Libra (2000) I suppose we have more and more question to ask as we grow older. Dehkhoda, the great Iranian encyclopaedist define "Love" as having affection for others. But how or from what experience did he derive such a definition? ... |
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Under the City's Skin (2000) Tuba, a hardworking house wife has to take care of her ill husband and her three chiildren. Abbad , her elder son desires to go to Japan. Without consulting with his family, Abbas sells the family house. The buyer is a crook and ... |
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Kandahar (2000) Nelofer Pazira plays Nafas, an Afghan-born journalist living in Canada, who fled her country as a teenager. She receives a letter from her sister, who was maimed by a landmine and left behind during the escape, about her intentions to end her life ... |
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Shoore Eshgh (2000)
Tired of her father's opposition to her fiancé Kiyan Hemmati, Sahar determines to escape with Kiyan and go to Kiyan's sister's house in Bandar Anzali ... |
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Iran Is My Homeland (1999) Sohrab, a young provincial author from Kerman is writing a book on the history of the Persian Classic Poetry, focussing on the styles of five great Iranian poets including Sa'adi, Rumi, Hafiz, Khayyam and Ferdowsi. To publish his book ... |
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Two Women (1999) Country girl Fereshteh and city girl Roya, schoolmates at Tehran University in the early '80s, become friends when the former tutors the latter to pay her way through architecture school. Their friendship and their innocent fun are clouded only by ... |
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The Apple - La Pomme (1998) Like many recent films from Iran this one has a simple plot line, light humor, and a humanitarian streak that is rarely seen in American films. Yet it too has a resonance due to its use of metaphor and to a rather complex theme ... |
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Strange Sisters (1996) Narges & Nasrin are too little girls who meet each other in an Elementary School Party and find out that they are twins and their parents were divorced. In this hilarious family comedy the two sister try every single way to make their parents get together again ... |
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Snowman (1995) Please, do not watch this movie, and if you do, do not take it as a typical example of Iranian film. This movie I put into the all-too-common foreign genre of -immigration drama-. You know those movies where the whole time all they want to do is ... |
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The Last Act (1991) The events in this film take place in Tehran some time before World War Two. A brother and sister scheme against their sister-in-law based on a play the brother has written himself. The young bride arrives just in time to realize that her husband is ... |
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Hajji Washington (1982) Censored until 1998. The final version of this film which has not been screened yet, is the story of Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori, Iran's first ambassador to the United States who went to Washington during the reign of ... |
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