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A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Zar Amir Ebrahimi

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Homayoun Ershadi

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leila Hatami

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amir Farrokh Hashemian

An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Babek Ahmed Poor

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Farhad Kheradmand

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amir Jadidi

Mahin lives alone in Tehran since her husband’s death and her daughter’s departure for Europe, until an afternoon tea with friends leads...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lily Farhadpour

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Golshifteh Farahani

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Behzad Dorani

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arash Marandi

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jafar Panahi

Complications arise in a director's attempt to film a scene in Life, and Nothing More... (1992).

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mohammadali Keshavarz

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hossain Sabzian

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Behrouz Vossoughi

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and actor Behnaz Jafari travel to a tiny village after receiving a plea for help from a girl whose family has forbidden her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Behnaz Jafari

Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shahab Hosseini

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hasan Ma'juni

During the 2006 World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Bahrain, numerous young women are caught and rounded up for dressing as men so they could...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sima Mobarak-Shahi

Set against the backdrop of Iran's strict and oppressive legal system, this anthology film tells the stories of four men who each face a moral crisis...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mahtab Servati