Woodpecker 2021
Humans who drown in social networks, feed on each other’s ruminants, but they never experience satiety.
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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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.
Film about the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre
A suitcase is about to leave its surroundings, but he soon realizes that things inside that load have weighed her down. The suitcase tries to lighten its load. He pulls something out of himself every time. But it is not light. Until he finally realizes that the things within him are not the cause of heaviness and in fact heaviness has another cause. In fact, memories, belongings, and attachments are the reason for the weight of luggage.
The Health Organization is going to a remote village to vaccinate the children, but all of them have vanished.
A documentary about coffee from the seeds to the machines for preparation, roasting, selling and how to consume it in the form of various drinks, plus a story that runs parallel to the documentary in which a guy tells about a strange thing that happened to him about coffee.
Adapted from “Tales of Thousands and One Nights” and “Sinbad Trips”. A young man in the deserts of iran is looking for a legendary creature who encounters a strange old man. in exchange for the treasure, he agrees to help the old man to find the holy book of their tribe. the difficulty of this path is that the young must be the ride of the old man!
“The Savior” tells the story of a little kid who is traumatized following the death of her mother. After the tragic incident, the child cannot stand the death of other living creatures. her father is a fisherman. when the man brings home the fish, he notices that his daughter takes them back to the sea. she says she needs to save them as they are dying.
“The Pylon” tells the story of a factory worker who decides to kill someone in the middle of the night, but the problem is that she is kind!
On presidential election in Iran, a pregnant woman close to her delivery time learns that she has no choice regarding the Caesarian section or natural delivery. Based on the nationwide regulations in Iran, despite her desire, she has to choose the “natural delivery”.
A 14-years-old teenager run away from his addicted father's house because he makes him live in a orphanage.Now he is trying hard to find his unseen mother even for once.Besides,he does not have a national Id card and this has caused many problems in his daily life.
Boys and girls are treated differently when it comes to traditional Iranian culture. When a boy is circumcised, they have a ceremony to honor his transformation. At the same party while eating dinner a little girl has her period for the first time, but she gets punished for having her first menstrual cycle.
an adaptation of Aboutorab Khosravi's short story.