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Searching for meaning in the absence of love

A girl is a nursing home worker and she wants to fulfill an old woman's wish before she dies.

Nima, who considers himself to be the cause of the Fereshteh's death, goes to the cemetery at night with his friend Shayan to get rid of the torment of conscience by performing a special ritual.

It's the last Thursday of the year and Sara breaks her grandmother's glasses. Saeed tries to fix it and in this he meets an Afghan named Aman.

The documentary deals with Mithraism. The relationship and influence of the Mehri ritual in the Christian religion and the rejection of the natural and historical roots of the Mehr in different Asian and European cultures and nations is the subject of this research documentary. Mithraism has a longer history than any other religion in the general culture of Iran. "Mithraism" has been very effective in the formation of our Iranian culture.

In 1979, following the Islamic Revolution, theatres across Iran were shut down, including the oldest, Tamashakhaneh Tehran, built in 1915. Filmmaker Shauheen Daneshfar explores its dusty, decaying interiors with 35mm film, reviving a past enriched with artistic expression and resistance through archival footage, choreographed re-enactments, and the memories of exiled and oppressed artists and performers. Scented Rooms is a powerful, poetic ode to a silenced history resoundingly present.

The story of Shahid Morteza Javidi, an Iranian commander who was a shepherd and joined the holy defense front in the war imposed by Saddam on Iran and was known among the soldiers with the nicknames Uncle Morteza and Islu.

The narrator tells the story of a boy named Adam who, since childhood, has lived in a mysterious and old inn named (Mermaid). Adam falls in love with his playmate Eve from the early of his childhood, but after Eve reaches adulthood, she leaves the Mermaid inn and her lover, Adam, and turns to prostitution. In this mysterious inn, Adam meets new and strange travelers, each of whom spends a short time with him and teaches him something, and finally leaves, but the only thing that is important to Adam and he will never forget is Eve's love and her return that will not be forgotten until.

Cylinder is about a teenager who, despite his interest and talent for soccer, is forced to obey his father, who is addicted to material things and prevents him in any way from playing soccer and reaching the finals.

A man is forced to search for the best person with his lovely dog

A cheerful little girl meets a tiny bird, right before her egg goes missing. She decides to help her find it. Going on a journey together, they find out a mysterious long hand is stealing all the eggs.

Humans who drown in social networks, feed on each other’s ruminants, but they never experience satiety.

A man is lying alone on the bed in his apartment. When he opens his eyes, he notices the vibration of the chandelier and the furniture. In his mind, he tries different ways of escaping. A white moth is dying next to the insecticide; while the man is trying to save himself from the earthquake, the moth struggles to save himself too. The man, in his last thought, no longer decides to run away. He gets up slowly, goes to the kitchen, and drinks water. Then he returns to his bed and looks at the moth, who flutters his last wing and dies. He lies down, and the blood-colored sun shines on him.

Near a village, the river’ water level has dropped due to a dam, upsetting the ecological balance. So that lack of water and food has made an alligator comes around the village. The villagers are very scared but a wise man understands the matter and tries to guide the alligator to a suitable place to live.

The movie describes the situation of a lesbian girl who wants to leave the country in an illegal way.

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Rayhan is a student who had his life together in Afghanistan but then lost his family in an attack. This made him flee to London to have a better life. Here, he faces a lot of hardships where he begins to learn the true meaning of life.

At four o'clock early in the morning a strange voice talks on an answering machine and announces a surprise, a cardboard box is at the front door, "filled with voices and pictures of another time and place". This time is November 1977, two years before the revolution in Iran. The experimental short film in Beckett style jumps from one time zone to another.