Two Iranian teenagers in love want to get married, travel to the US to get a green card and live there, but their parents object. With not enough money saved, they pin their hopes on winning the state lottery to fund their trip, but tragedy derails their plans.
A tax collector is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with problems at home.
Australian filmmaker Jordan Bryon has been living and working as a journalist and filmmaker in Afghanistan for more than six years. After the departure of US forces, he stays to document Afghan life under the male-centric Taliban leadership. With his colleague, Teddy, he heads to a Taliban stronghold in the north-west of the country, shortly after he started transitioning. If the Taliban knew he was trans, they would likely kill him. It’s a chaotic time, for the country and for Jordan, as he navigates his transformation and looks to the future.
A young man named Shamsadin (Mehdi Moradi) receives the title of Hafez, bestowed only on those who memorize the Koran, and is sent to teach it to Nabat (Aso), the overseas-raised daughter of a religious leader. Although they never see each other's faces, feelings of love grow between them as they read the holy book. Unable to contain his feelings for Nabat, Hafez breaks his vows as a holy man by composing a poem to her, and is thrown out of her father's house and forced to relinquish his title. Then Nabat is forced to marry another man. Will the two ever be able to meet again?
When forced to divorce his wife by family and social pressure because her mother is a prostitute, Nazar works double shifts to pay back the loan he took out for his impulsive wedding and to pay some ongoing restitution to his sweet jilted bride, Reyhaneh. When he falls behind in the payments he flees the police and ends up in the desert with an uncommunicative old man who catches poisonous snakes for their venom. These two are forced to coexist in the desert, because Nazar is unwilling to return to the city and wants to catch snakes to make enough money to settle his debts. His verbose, chattering annoys the reticent old man until Nazar's life is endangered.
Unemotional, restrained cinematographic poem, situated in a wintry and poor suburb of Tehran. A man is dismissed and his lack of prospects for the future make him decide to seek his happiness abroad. He leaves his wife and child behind and for a long time nothing is heard of him. Then a stranger turns up, a car mechanic looking for a job. The attractive single mother can’t resist his attentions. Very subtly, a struggle ensues that reflects that of a whole generation of young doubting Iranians who may want to leave the country, but hardly know how to start.
The imprisoned Iranian women’s rights activist Maryam is allowed to meet her family for seven days. Her husband and children beg Maryam to flee with them instead of returning to prison but she has not yet made her decision.
Vilaeiha is the story of the families of the Iranian's army leaders in 1986. Aziz is a 50 years old woman who enters the Villas complex with her grand children. Elyas is a driver who when comes here, all become tension that maybe he brings bad news about the army leaders who fight in the front lines. After a while Cima who is Aziz' daughter-in-law comes to take her children away with her.
The story of 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to make fast money. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find hidden treasure underground. He recruits his gang, but first, to gain access to the tunnel, the children must enroll at the Sun School, a charitable institution that tries to educate street kids and child laborers, close to where the treasure is located.
Bahram Beyzai's poetic imagining of the circumstances that led to the death of Yazdgerd III, the last of the Sassanid kings of Iran. His death in 651, during the Arab invasions that brought Islam to this Zoroastrian realm, was mysterious: his corpse was discovered in a mill, but the cause of his death—and the whereabouts of his remains—are unknown.
An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh, while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping the two clean the rug. This young woman belongs to the clan whose history is depicted in the design of the gabbeh, and the rug recounts the story of the courtship of the young woman by a stranger from the clan.
A young woman is murdered by her own father, with the help of her younger brother. She is secretly buried in the cellar, a space where the women of the family weave carpets and perform other domestic chores. Her loss, or perhaps her presence, continues to haunt the family as it reverberates through the following generations. Ayyari’s film is staged exclusively in this house and was banned several times in Iran.
Khorshid, a blind child growing up in Tajikistan, is constantly distracted by music and sounds. This frequently causes him to be late to his job as an instrument tuner even though he runs the risk of being fired at a time when his family is in danger of being evicted from their house.
‘Kiarostami at Work’ is a documentary showcasing Abbas Kiarostami’s boundless passion for work and creativity. The film features images captured by Seifollah Samadian during their thirty years of friendship and travels together, including behind-the-scenes footage of ‘Shirin’, ‘Certified Copy’ by the late Hamideh Razavi, and ‘Taste of Cherry’ by Bahman Kiarostami.
This Iranian adaptation of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross is set in early 1980s Chicago, where the ruthless world of real estate sales takes center stage. Mitch and Murray, the managers of a real estate office, create a cutthroat competition among their salesmen to boost performance, promising a lucrative reward to the top seller. The story explores the intense pressure, moral compromises, and desperation faced by the salesmen as they vie for success, highlighting themes of ambition, greed, and survival in a high-stakes environment.
Hossain Sabzian and some of his associates discuss his character, his life-long obsession with cinema and his attitude towards the film he starred in, "Close-Up" (1990).
A drunken, boorish general tyrannises his wife and his maid. When the wife discovers that her husband and the maid are having an affair, she turns the maid out of the house, little realising that the young woman is pregnant with the general's child. Years later, the general is dead, and a younger generation has risen with a new outlook on life and new problems to face... This flamboyantly stylised melodrama, loosely adapted from Ibsen, is the newest work by one of the legendary figures of Iran's New Wave.
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?
Three interwoven stories of loneliness and isolation that centre around Janan, a woman from Afghanistan who travels to the UK for artificial insemination. Complications arise when William, a medical sciences student working in the clinic switches the donor's semen for his own.
In the early years of the 30s of Hijri, a group of patriotic and freedom-loving people planned to provide the amount needed for the national loan of Dr. Mohammad Mosadegh during a robbery operation from the National Bank. But everything does not go according to their plan and...
Because of him being in strange positions and situations, a man is several times mistaken as other, usually famous people; and now must explain himself to a judge as he has been arrested for impersonation.
It is an Iranian TV series directed by Ahmad Kavari, whose story is about the life of Muslim bin Aqeel and how he was martyred.
The story of the wealthy Timurpham family begins just a few days before the eighteenth birthday of Parham, the beloved only son of the family, when an unexpected decision takes the lives of the family members on a complicated path...
A popular bandit, Morad, is robbing trade caravans. During a fight with another bandit, he has been rescued from death by the rural family. He takes a profound challenge in his life with these villagers.
It's a lot of money. A perfect map is needed to eliminate obstacles and achieve this wealth. A pure and complex map that requires a professional assassin. He is probably the smartest and most ruthless.
Parviz and Maliha are a husband and wife who work in a museum in Tehran. One night, while the couple is busy with their duties, an unexpected event happens that puts them at a crossroads and can change their lives forever.
When nature is destroyed and iron and cement grow from the earth instead of trees, the poor animal has no choice but to urbanize. Khatan and Khamar, the two young deer in the story, also sell their homeland, Dasht-e Naz, hoping for a better life, and buy a small apartment in Kelileh and Demneh town.
A television series about Mohammadhossein Shariar's life, directed by Kamal Tabrizi, aired on IRIB channel 2.
Ramin, a psychology student, meets animals of a jungle and tries to teach them about psychology.0..
Between Dreaming and Awakening, an Iranian drama series whose story revolves around gangs that sponsor the drug trade in Iran, where senior police officers confront them after they pose a real threat to the country's youth. It shows a complicated story about police trying to drag these traders into the trap, so interesting events take place in a dramatic context in which the features of the conflict between the forces of good and evil appear, and the series is a light police comic type, which gives the impression of the difficulties facing the policemen of the dangers and obstacles surrounding the policeman and his family in the same time.
A group of drug traffickers need huge capital to bypass their employer and emigrate, and for this reason, they commit a big robbery and...
The synopsis of the series Safe says that an expensive jewel has been deposited in the safe of Gholam Hossein Parvaneh's house, and a number of people are determined to steal it. One of them is a young man from the city named Gholam Reza, who is under pressure from a group to do this. In order to gain access to the safe, he rents an apartment in the complex where Parvaneh lives, and gradually falls in love with Mr. Parvaneh's daughter.
The TV series tells the story of a poor family in Mashhad on Nowruz in 1988. The father of the family, who has five sons and two daughters, is asking for someone, and whoever wants to pay him, gives him a color TV instead so that they can sell the TV until the money is in order and if not. After a while, the father travels with the rest of the family and warns Javad that he has no right to touch the TV. Simultaneously with the arrival of Uncle Beiji and his friends, they get stuck watching one of Bruce Lee's movies and accidentally break the TV. Now, on the eve of the Eid holiday, they have to find some pilgrims to rent their houses for a while so that they can pay for the TV repairs.
The series narrates fascinating adventures and a combination of ancient Iranian stories such as "One Thousand and One Nights," "Kashkoul," "Golestan" and "Shahnameh", which took place in a city called "Mastooran" 500 years ago in Iran.
Pikolo is a magical island where strange and funny creatures live. Every once in a while a new guest falls in Piccolo and faces different stories and challenges.
The series "Heritage" is the story of a young student who faces economic and social challenges. With the guidance of a spiritual teacher and the help of experts, his path to overcoming difficulties is paved.
Zero 21 is about two Bajanaks who do not have a friendly relationship. The two men, who work in the municipality, try to knock each other down, and in line with these efforts, they make funny and funny things. The main slogan of this series revolves around the famous proverb "There is no life for a car, there is no family for life!"
A series about Salman Farsi, an Iranian companion of the Prophet of Islam.
Dadzan is the story of a young man who gets complicated in the course of his life and many people come into his life, each of whom has a story behind him.
