Following protests to the presidential election in 2009, an elderly woman has one night to clear her house of any politically troublesome belongings of her family. To help her out; her deceased husband, her executed brother and two martyred and immigrated sons are back to life in their picture...
Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class society.
In 1967, an old prisoner in southern Iran is being evacuated because of the proximity to the city's new airport. The head of the prison, Major Nemat Jahed, and his agents are busy transferring prisoners to the new prison, until ...
A corrupted police officer insists on bribing a broke man, so he has to go to everybody and do everything in order to be able to pay him in the very night.
A group of youngsters participate in a race match and endure the difficult route of this race just to be hired in the Environmental Protection agency of Tehran.
This film is about the interest of a person named Ahmed in cinema. Ahmed has been very interested in cinema since his childhood. He started working in cinema as a teenager because of his interest. Ahmed is currently a famous tea man in Iranian cinema.
It’s 1988 and, at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed relentlessly. The days that pass are full of foreboding, and yet, love, affection, hope and life itself manage to sweep away the fear of death from those surrounded by it. Love may often be difficult to comprehend, but death is a...
A haughty acclaimed newly married fashion designer named Iraj is shown the door by his boss after the boss's son arrives at Iran to take over his father's company. Iraj reluctant to promulgate the loss of his job, starts using his savings, trying to conceal the truth from his naive wife. Having...
Prince Jamshid dreamed that he would fall in love with an unknown girl with marvelous beauty, but he couldn't find her in his country. A painter merchant informed him that his dream girl was the daughter of the Caesar of Rome.
A once thriving reception hall has been reduced to catering to the funeral business and the somber rituals of death. The owner, Soleimani, is a sour, lonely and unloved old man who treats his workers with contempt, inflicting small cruelties whenever possible. Embittered and seeing a psychologist,...
The Glass Agency is the story of a war veteran living in post war Iran. It depicts veterans who are suffering from social problems after the war. Society does not understand them and the standard social norms are not in harmony with their personalities.
An adaptation of Hero (1992), The Prank (Persian: Shoukhi) tells the story of Reza Fathali (Parviz Parastui), a petty criminal who saves the passengers of a crashed airplane; however, his friend, Ebrahim Nazabadi (Habib Rezaei) takes credit for his heroism.
Jalal, a dropouts philosophy student, realizes that her sister Mary, who has a Bipolar disease, is married to a bourgeois man named Shahrokh who is addicted to football betting. He left the house angrily, and goes to his friend's house, Bahman, who is an underground composer. He meets a strange...
