Popular From Iran, Islamic Republic of

In 1972, three young Iranian musicians came together to perform passionate rock songs for music lovers. Bahram Amin Salmasi (guitar), Ainullah Keyvan Shokooh (drums) and Bahram Saeedi (guitar) along with Eric Arkont (percussion) and Andranik Asatourian (piano) formed the Scorpio group. The band's skill in playing the works of pioneers of rock music received a lot of attention, and it did not take long for it to gain a large following in nightclubs and ballrooms. Forty years later, the memoirs of Scorpio recount the formation of rock music in Iran.

Documentary about an infertile couple

An industrial documentary about the Razi Serum Institute

Susan and Raha are two senior students studying Dramatic Arts in an art school. They are both candidates for the role of Johnathan Livingston from Richard Bach's, but soon after the audition some peculiar events start to arise and take place. More peculiar than Susan's appearance.

A glance on the women who live in a geographical restriction of Afghanistan and the cities who have thousands of stories on women. The film addresses those who tyrannize over women, and who misuse cultural issues and religion.

It has been 10 years since the international community and local entities’ initiated their efforts towards the elimination of violence against women, the women of Afghanistan are still suffering victims of violence and lawlessness. The Taliban, no longer in power, is present in the shadows, and their brutal practices and policies towards women, especially in the countryside, are still profoundly visible. “Violence Against Women – 10 Years On” explores how, and why, this recurrent atrocity against women in Afghanistan continues to rise despite government and international community efforts to implement the law on the elimination of violence and the establishment of a High Commission for the Prevention of Violence against Women.

Matricide is an experimental documentary that will incorporate mythical fantasy into our environments harsh reality in order to illustrate the augmenting issues plaguing our planet. The film will be part dance video, using vibrant costumes carefully constructed to symbolize elements in nature. The other half of the film, incorporated into the shots of four Goddesses will be found footage/archives of various environmental disasters, ailments and issues brought about by man. As the documentary footage infiltrates our Goddesses serenity, their costumes fall apart, symbolizing the same environmental issues in the footage pertaining to their particular element.

The film centers on the hate of a father from her lesbian daughter. Their relationship is shockingly described by the girl to the body of her father at a hospital, but then unpredictably she realizes that her father is still alive.

An elderly couple live alone in a house. The man is suffering from Alzheimer's and his wife cares for him. One evening, there is a home invasion that turn their life of routine upside down.

A few years back, a video of stray dogs being killed by acid injection by council workers in Shiraz(Iran) went viral. Nobody took responsibility for the action. The murderer was interviewed in this film.

Tragedy strikes a young couple on their wedding day when the groom is attacked and killed by a wild animal. The groom's brother and grieving bride set out on a perilous trip into the forest to seek out the beast and take revenge for the death of their loved one. The film is set in a rural space and beautifully shot, drawing visual inspiration from Bahram Beyzai's 'Bashu the Little Stranger'.

Short Documentary about Iranian Artist Mohsen vaziri Moghaddam

A man named Majid disappoints three people for four nights.

When he loses his football playing with a couple of friends, Alireza is caught by a neighbour trying to get it back. Reporting the offence to his parents, Alireza soon finds himself disciplined for his inconsiderate behaviour. As punishment, his father makes him spend the whole day in his cart as it travels about the city. Through a small peephole, Alireza watches the world go by outside, and as he does, he is treated to a new perspective on life, one which may ultimately help him patch things up with his father.

The Wind Game is about love, death and a spiritual quest for a homeland. A young man is searching for his father, and encounters a man who relates a story to him. The young man then has a visionary dream that he writes down in a letter to his old friend, an elderly Poet in Austria. While reading the letter, the Poet is inspired to continue his unfinished work, and his creative process begins.

Documentry of Abu Rayhan Biruni (973-ca. 1050) the Great Persian Scientist.

A single English teacher lives in a rented home. On the day that the landlord plans to come home to renew, the girl asks one of her son's students to stay home after class because she is distrustful of the landlord.

A human being in search of his sexual identity finds himself in a continuous loop.

SHAK is about an Afghan living in Pakistan in extreme poverty. In order to pay for his mother's surgical operation, he finds he has no choice but to sell one of his kidneys. On his way to acquiring this money, he runs into a criminal gang and gets injured in a street fight.

Experimental short documentary