Amir, a young Iranian, signs on with a fisherman on the rugged Caspian Sea coast in order to earn the money he needs to marry his sweetheart, Narges. But in so doing, he becomes entangled in the criminal machinations of caviar poaching. Piece by piece, a complex hierarchy is revealed in a parallel...
Jafar Panahi and fellow Iranian director Majid Barzegar take a 20-minute drive to Kiarostami’s grave, during which time “the two friends speak appropriately of cinema, but also censorship and festivals, police power and ideology.”
Before dawn, seven passengers are making their way from Shahdad to Kerman on a side road. When one of the passengers is discovered dead, they haven't traveled very far. Instead of finding an ID, an address, or a phone when they search the dead man's body, they discover a lot of cash under his vest.
"Mother married a photo of Father," says director Firouzeh Khosrovani in the opening of this deeply personal documentary. She's not speaking metaphorically though. Her mother Tayi literally married a portrait of Hossein in Teheran -he was in Switzerland studying radiology and was unable to travel...
Tehran 2022. While Behzad is obsessed with his neighbor’s private life and is trying to force a chance meeting with his ex-girlfriend, his wife Sima is secretly looking for an apartment for her and their teenage daughter Minoo. In the meantime, Minoo starts a flirt with Keyvan at a traffic light...
Mahi and Pouya are on a trip with friends. In the morning, they find with the dead bodies of their friends by carbon monoxide poisoning, and find out that they're the reason for their deaths.
Mr. Safari, an 80-year-old pensioner, lives alone and without direction. When his son, living abroad, tries to arrange for his elderly father to visit him, Mr. Safari becomes dangerously obsessed with a local female travel agent who is hired to help. Co-written by acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi...
While supposedly taking mud baths in Korea, the paterfamilias of a family from Tehran’s Grand Bazaar dies of a sudden heart attack in Brive-la-Gaillarde. His wife and his oldest son travel to France to bring his body home and to investigate the circumstances of his death.
Sina, a sixteen years old teenager from today's Tehranian middle class, experiences a new life on the verge of his parents' divorce. Added to his very real sense of having been abandoned is the threat of a local thug who believes that Sina owes him a considerable sum of money. Things become even...
Nahal is around thirty and in her fourth month of pregnancy. During a routine check-up she learns that her baby has died and she now faces a curettage abortion in two days’ time. When she tries to address the subject, neither her mother nor her husband give her a chance to speak.
"Mom", who , for her siblings is still the same "Nancy", lovely girl from Abadan, is a naughty and grumpy old woman for her sons, who travels by taxi, and in appearance is the biggest obstacle to her happiness.
A documentary about Bahram Beyzai (Persian: بهرام بیضایی; born 26 December 1938). He is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and ostād ("master") of Persian letters, arts, and Iranian studies.
15-year-old Valderama, so called by the townsfolk for his long curly hair, is trying to obtain the ID card he’s never been able to have. He has no documentation, no family, and no official identity. One day, after a fateful encounter, he is forced to hastily get out of town. Now he has to fight...
Crude Oil comes out of a middle aged woman's body is on one hand empowering her and on the other hand bringing uncertainty and paranoia to her life and when a male paranoia is build up against her body's malfunction and oil is gradually trivialized and just there to solve some small family issues,...
Parviz has as its increasingly horrifying anti-hero the 50-year-old hulk of a passive-aggressive bachelor son (theater director/activist Haftvan), whose free ride in life screeches to a halt when his miserly widowed father forms a plan to remarry.
