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How come a somber silence drowns me and my memory? How come the faces lose visage in this dark dungeon of memory?

Ako is a teenagers who has come to Tehran to work at the bazaar. But when a precious cargo which is give to him to carry is stolen he faces many new challenges and difficulties.

A discovery journey to the ancient sites and forts of Iranian Azerbaijan, Zahhak castle near Mianeh and the Babak Khorramdin stronghold in Kalaybar, who fought the Abbasid Caliphate in early centuries of Islam in Iran.

The history of Iranian Azerbaijan from the Medes era to the Sasanian Empire and from Takht-e Soleyman in Atropatene to St. Thaddeus Monastery (AKA Qara Kelisa).

An Iranian woman leaves her husband and travels to Russia. Memories of her World Cup trip come up, as well as an uncomfortable secret.

A trans woman is on her way to a job interview in Tehran when something traumatizing happens.

A boy named “Mahdi” lost his firefighter father who saved a little girl from a deadly fire. Out of missing his father, Mahdi decides to write him a letter and send it to the sky (heaven) with two helium balloons. A stranger receives the letter accidentally, reads it and decides to reply on behalf of Mahdi’s father to end Mahdi's confusion and grief.

A short film from early works of Majid Khadem.

Iranian short documentary, part of a collection of portrait documentaries.

In the course of Iran's ban on women's presence in football stadiums, Saba, 22, disguises herself as a boy to sneak into the stadium at her father's suggestion. Her father takes her to a traditional cafe instead of the stadium. Asking her how hard it is to hide her true identity, he lets her-now impersonating a boy-in on the secret that he realized he could not be a man any more when Saba was three, but he had to hide it for years to let her daughter feel having a father. On the pretext of helping her enter the stadium, he creates a circumstance where his daughter has to put herself into his shoes, thereby hiding her true identity. He then tells her that he intends to continue living with his true identity from now on.

For many years an old woman has kept her sick husband until one day this habit ends.

In the early days of the revolution, three young cameramen working for the National TV take their cameras out on to the streets of Tehran to capture the people’s revolution. This documentary covers the revolutionary events from 8 September 1978 to February 1979, using a politically strident voiceover narration, which does not match the relatively evenhanded visuals and editing.

A Video Clip of Firouz Karimi's Funny Interviews

An experimental documentary that takes world-building to an entirely new level, Rites of Spring showcases fragments of Iran’s history before, during, and after the Revolution of 1979. It begins with scenes of daily life, working-class people, and extensive shots of farms and nature. When the Revolution hits the country, the new focus becomes demonstrations, leaders’ preachings, and scenes of strife, revealing the constant fear and chaos that hover over the country. The birds that break out of their eggs toward the end signal an undeniably effective promise of a new beginning for a country that oscillates between revolution and war.

A documentry piece revolving Mohammad Sadegh -a gifted student in Sharif University of Technology- and his search for a future path to follow.

A documentary about Ferdowsi, the great Persian poet of 9th century, the creator epic Shahnameh (the book of kings). The film examines the impacts of the poet and his masterpiece, almost one thousand years after its creation, on Iran and Iranian people in the late 1970’s, the last years before the revolution.

Farideh Mohebi is a young woman who has recently gotten divorced from her husband Mehran. She is planning to do Sex reassignment surgery and is waiting for the test result. This surgery is her only ticket into a better life According to the Islamic Republic law, homosexuality is a crime. The person committing this crime for the first time would be whipped and if he/she does it again, he/she will be hanged. Homosexual Iranians, in order to live with each other, should either do it secretly or one of them should go through a legal sex change operation.

It is the life story of a student which is in trouble and deals with lots of challenges in his life. The teacher punishes him without knowing anything about his life. The teacher finds out the boy’s life issues only when…

A documentary about Eskimos in northern Alaska made by the Ommidvar Brothers on their travels around the world

Since the late thirties, our lake has been drying up. Sometimes it is full of water and sometimes it is short of water. In the last two years, the drought has intensified and now Lake Hamoon is completely dry. Since the 1930s, a group of people from Sistan migrated to Golestan and Mazandaran provinces due to drought, and the migration process is still going on.