Camellia is a transsexual girl who lives with her turtle and she is in love with a girl named Soosan. No one is aware of her trans sexuality. Camellia dreams about lovemaking with Soosan and Soosan intends to immigrate to west countries so as to follow academic graduation.
A profile of Afro-Iranian musician Hamid Said, aka Dingomaro
A boatwoman who makes a living with carrying passengers encounters a prostitute who travels sometimes with her.
Noor-e-aldin a teenage Afghan boy faces the different attitudes of Persians with himself and other foreigners in Iran.
In a bazaar, a poor young boy sees precious stones behind the shop window. The merchant invites him to enter, then takes him to the mountain, where he will have to face multiple dangers...
A mother's innocent gift of an atlas globe to her son, Vahid, reveals itself to be a supernatural force. From inside the globe a singing figure emerges by the name of Patal, and has the ability to grant all the boy's wishes. He soon learns of the great power emanating from the globe and begins using it in everyday life, from saving a motorcyclist from crashing into their family car to solving his household chores. The magic never ceases to amaze and enrich the young boy's life in this charmingly quirky film. But could the power of the globe be far too much for only a young boy to handle?
Salim Shaheen film from Afghanistan
Salim Shaheen film from Afghanistan
One of the stories of the film is that when the Pope was elected in the Vatican, if he was Nigerian and black, a particular incident would have happened in our film. This film tells the story of the black life that had been forced many years ago to "emigrate" from their homeland, They have moved away from poverty and humiliation, illness and death, poverty and helplessness Not to be slave and disillusioned, and their rights are in line with the White. The film's story revolves around the members of a family and their problems.
Out of Iran documents the journeys of LGBT individuals as they flee Iran and travel to the West. It explores the complex journeys of LGBT Iranians escaping a repressive regime, only to face new challenges as immigrants in new countries.
Under the pretext of making portraits of passers-by, the director checks upon the situation in Iran on the eve of the reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009. The film portrays a society before, during and after the elections, a short dream period in which a change becomes tangible.
A grief-stricken, reclusive, woman and a young newcomer, become intertwined by the pain of the woman’s past and the trauma that lingers.
Short television film
Ahmad and Arghavan, Five Years after Their marriage, Have decided to migrate from Iran, But the day before their flight, series of coincidences take their relationship into some tensions
The atmosphere is dreamlike, the characters have no name, neither the streets. Teheran is the only character whose name is constantly evoked. A lawyer, as many others, works and lives alone in his apartment, which is both his office and his home. In a cold and rainy day, a man burst into his apartment, speaks to him shortly and confusingly and gives him a package that will completely change his life. Venice 2016 - Semaine de la Critique selection.
Short combining fiction and documentary.
Directed by Manuchehr Tayyab.
Using an invasive cinéma verité camera, the extraordinary acts of faith of dervishes under trance conditions in Iranian Kurdistan are documented.
A widow and her father live alone and make a living by mending oil lamps and making charcoal.
While military campaigns target infrastructure, Archive of Collateral Lives exposes the invisible fallout, the families forced to move, the daily rhythms disrupted, the lives unaccounted for in official narratives. Through fragments of VHS footage and personal memory, the film becomes a counter-archive: one that preserves what war tries to erase.
