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Roya is an Iranian dancer and the main narrator of the film. She describes herself as “partly a sample consisting of different layers” and gives an intimate speech to the audience. Roya questions the exoticizing gaze of western viewers. A mysterious snail that is connected to Roya opens up a story within the story by telling us about a roadtrip from Isfahan to Sari (Iran). Meanwhile Roya’s lover, a fabulous alienesque being, lands on earth to build a lush, revolutionary garden of pleasure.

Vahid Qelich, the former coach & goalkeeper of popular Iranian Football Club; Persepolis, was, in effect, ousted from football pitches after his golden era. He experienced hard days and over time, football fans forgot the honors he brought for his homeland. He succeeded in regaining his glorious days of the past after years of silence, poverty, dejection and seclusion. This time, he owes his fame to dynamic presence in Instagram, not diving in football net as the goaler. Currently, Instagram has turned to be most virtual companion to Qelich, at the age of 65. Social media, mostly used as entertaining apps by majority of people, is serving as a device to reclaim his lost identity. He has managed to arrange exercising football practices with some of his fans by help of Instagram. However, it is not all that makes him satisfied, he is dreaming of becoming a celebrity one more time.

This film recounts some fragments of stories from the life of an Afghan family in Iran and the hardships they undergo which ultimately force them to flee to Europe. In Iran, discrimination of Afghans is present in all aspects of life, and even in death. The film is written, directed and acted by the family Hakimi, with assistance of director Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami (Sonita). It is a call for all people who have no land to go back to and who are in search for a new homeland.

It would take a brave soul to set out today on a 10-year journey around the world on a motorbike, a journey that deliberately passed through places that include Congo, the Arctic Circle and the entire length of the Andes. That is exactly what the Omidvar brothers from Tehran did back in 1954. Throwing their film-making kit on their bikes and with just $90 each to spend, they set out to see the most remote people they could possibly find. En route they created a visual record that is now a milestone in film history, a documentary record of a vanished world: peoples, cultures and even entire countries that no longer exist. Abdullah Omidvar after emigration to Chile opened Arauco Films in Santiago, specializing in advertising and industrial films. Through it he released "An Iranian in Latin America 1973" with a Persian narration which was screened at Diana Cinema in Tehran.

A quiet and unsettling story of two trans people in love who have to find subtle forms of connection to validate their experiences at their workplace until they are able to escape and be their true selves.

This experimental animation expresses the inner conflict of a migrant as they try to adjust to a new place.

After having medical problems, and after a long time, Mina becomes pregnant, but she feels ignored by her husband, Hesam. Since he has become concerned and involved with the personal and family problems of his colleague Shirin, who has recently divorced from her husband.

In the middle of the winter night, the taxi driver sees a clip from his phone; Which affects his destiny.

An Iranian experimental movie

An Iranian documentary

Four Iranian short movies in one movie

One of the first ever films Mirza Ebrahim Khan made in Iran, shows the servants of the Shah crossing a river (probably Jajrood river) with horses and lots of loadings.

The human-like people which does not accept diversities and seeks its annihilation.

Khark Island is an ethnographic documentary about an island in the Persian Gulf. Traditional life is shown, alongside westernized developments which have been built to accommodate newcomers working in the oil industry. The film uses some interesting tracking and aerial techniques, at times reminiscent of Albert Lamorisse's Lover's Wind.

A hungry wolf gets stuck in stereotypes about being the big bad wolf of the story. She has to flee when everybody accuses her to violence and murder. She faces the danger of getting killed.