In a hospital waiting room a woman learns her daughter, Solmaz Gholami, has just given birth. The ultrasound test had prepared the family for a boy. The baby, it turns…

Dustland narrates a judicial story that takes place in court. Following the occurrence of a crime, the case is handed over to the interrogator, who himself is in a difficult…

Forty years ago, during the uprising to overthrow the Shah’s regime in Iran, protesters set fire to movie theaters as a way of showing opposition to Western culture. Many cinemas…

At the age of 40, Leila has spent her entire life caring for her parents and four brothers. A family that is constantly arguing and under pressure from various debts…

The police take a young man to a crime scene, where he killed another young man. All looks quite simple and the police just needs to re-enact the murder and…

An engineering student in Iran whose parents fled war-torn Afghanistan. As Afghans are only allowed to have manual-labor jobs in Iran, Taghi plans to move to the motherland he never…

At times, the world is filled with things we cannot understand. [Ashkan, the Charmed Ring and Other Stories] reveals the complicated interlinked chains of the world that people cannot comprehend….

‘Iran Is My Land’ documents the journey of Sohrab, an itinerant writer, whose latest work, a book of Iranian poetry, requires a permit from Iran’s censors in order to be…

When a young girl becomes lost in the hustle and bustle of Tehran, her journey turns into a dazzling exercise on the nature of film itself. In this ingenious and…

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,…

The Taliban are ruling Afghanistan, they being a repressive regime especially for women, who, among other things, are not allowed to work. This situation is especially difficult for one family…

Documentary about a dating agency in Iran.

“The Badger” is the story of a 40-year-old woman called Soodeh Sharifzadegan who faces a strange incident, right before her second marriage.

After leaking of a video of her class in a women only swimming pool, Parvaneh is brutally murdered by her husband, Hashem, who seeks a way to redeem his reputation…

A simple kind woman leads a hard, unsatisfactory life with her husband. She unintentionally caused her husband’s death. But she begins a new life with his dead body.

Satirical commentary on clergymen in post-revolutionary Iran. While in prison, petty criminal Reza (Parviz Parastui) comes across a clergyman, sparking a plan for escape. Reza dons his new acquaintance’s clerical…

Well-known actress Behnaz Jafari is left distraught when she comes across a provincial girl’s video plea for help, after her family prevents her from taking up her studies at the…

Akram and Azar two sister lie about the disappearance of their brother by telling everyone he has fled to Germany. In time this “lie” takes a life of its own…

The story happens in 1948, in a fictional country, called Zakharstan (in the novel “Caravans” is probably Afghanistan). Mark Miller (Michael Sarazyn) is a young U.S. Embassy employee who is…

A well educated and humble teacher arrives in a new city and at a new job in the pre-revolutionary Iran. He falls in love with a hardworking underprivileged young woman…

Undocument bears witness to four journeys of love and loss, immigration and identity across three continents as one cinematic journey.

Middle-aged Mr.Badii is planning to commit suicide and desperately seeks anyone to assist him – he has already dug out the grave in the mountains, but the assistant will have…

The movie focuses on one of the events in Zendegi va digar hich (1992), and explores the relationship between the movie director, and the actors. The local actors play a…

After the earthquake of Guilan, the film director and his son, Puya, travel to the devastated area to search for the actors of the movie the director made there a…

Kiarostami’s documentary feature about education was inspired by the director’s own difficulties assisting his son with homework that required a great deal of parental participation. The filmmaker interviews a succession…

Masht Hassan owns the only cow in a remote and desolate village. He treats the cow as his own child. When he is away, his cow dies. Knowing the relationship…

At the height of international tension between America and Iran, Kevin Sheppard, a charismatic African-American basketball player accepts an offer to play professional basketball in Iran. What begins as a…

Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

An American secret agent is sent to Iran to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and comes across a crazed international businessman called The Baron who has stolen a…

Amiro is a young boy who has lost his home during the war. He spends his days by working odd jobs, until he realizes that the only way that he…

Pretending to be Mohsen Makhmalbaf making his next movie, Hossain Sabzian enters the home of a well-to-do family in Tehran, promising it a prominent part in his next movie. The…

The movie revolves around the life of a tax collector who is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with problems at home, including the suicide attempt of…

A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she’s not holding back…

Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment…

Criminals have surrounded the home of a young Kurdish family. They only have one bullet left to defend themselves. At the same time their daughter is suffering from a chronic…

An Iranian couple living in the US become trapped inside a hotel when insidious events force them to face the secrets that have come between them, in a night that…

Two Iranian teenagers in love want to get married, travel to the US to get a green card and live there, but their parents object. With not enough money saved,…

The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.

In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.