Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at...
After an untimely summons from his department head, Mr. Ahmadi collided with a trolley carrying iron and was killed on his way to work. On that day, various factors come together so that following this incident, the fate of several people will be connected and changed...
When Sara wakes up in the morning, she finds out that her husband is missing. She and her teenage daughter are left without anyone to rely on. Along with one of the neighbors, they begin desperately seeking him. In a journey from the heart of darkness into the light, would they become resilient...
Taher Mohebi is a well-known writer who, after witnessing a violent murder, breaks down and spends three years in a mental institution. After release he is told that things are just as they were before, but his relentless hallucinations make him want to return to the institution.
The story is set in a tiny Kurdish village. Isa’s younger brother is murdered and brought back to his hometown. Two weeks after the funeral, his mother Zîn dreams of giving a wedding celebration for her deceased son. This strange idea sparks off a host of contradictory feelings within her, and...
In a bloody war with ISIS, the burnt body of an American soldier was accidentally presented to a long-awaited Kurdish mother, while the soldier's real mother steadfastly waits at San Diego's navy base for a son who will never return.
Synopsis: In the southeast of Sistan and Baluchistan province, a Baloch widow named Biban decides to keep silent and not speak anymore. He lives with his son Miran in his father-in-law's house. When his childhood friend, Hamraz, returns home, love is born between them; But everyone tries to make...
In an unspecified dystopia, a tyrant rules with an iron fist. To maintain control over the people, he employs 'Dasdaran', dangerous, scythe-wielding warriors who obey his orders without question or qualm. But at last the day has come where a hero will rise from the masses to challenge the Dasdaran...
A group of young people are trying to teach Kurdish in Turkish Kurdistan, a land where the teaching of the language is forbidden by Turkish authorities. Part of their work is to print clandestine schoolbooks in underground schools and distribute them. One of the girls in the group, Aseke, is killed...
In a small village outside Sanandaj, 60-year-old Maryam is waiting for her son Farhad's return from military service. One day, Farhad turns up at her door, wearing a chador, and tells her that he is now living as a woman.
Kejal, a young Kurdish woman studying in Tehran returns home when her brother is killed in the mountains, leaving behind debts for lost goods. Forced by circumstance, Kejal becomes a Kulbar (Carrying goods on her back, Every mistaken step may chance upon a landmine. They are hunted like wild...
Banafsheh and her grandmother went to visit her mother’s grave. On the train back home, they meet a teacher with whom she hits if off immediately. The teacher promises the young girl to call, but the phone call never comes.
Harun suffers from his dreams, causing him mental anguish. This is the result of his experiences as a warrior in the civil war. He seeks a cure for his illness, uses traditional and religious methods, goes to an elderly woman to get a tattoo on his hand. If he loses blood from the tattoo, he thinks...
The story of life of a musician who plays traditional music and comes to Tehran for a living but after a while he is absorb and begins to play in a rock band.
