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.
A young woman lives alone in Tehran with her cat, Tirishko. Having learnt that her mother in Ispahan is ill, she decides to go and look after her. But as she cannot find anyone to take care of Tirishko, she sets off with the cat in tow. Her subsequent journey is not without incident.
Documentary about an infertile couple
It has been 10 years since the international community and local entities’ initiated their efforts towards the elimination of violence against women, the women of Afghanistan are still suffering victims of violence and lawlessness. The Taliban, no longer in power, is present in the shadows, and their brutal practices and policies towards women, especially in the countryside, are still profoundly visible. “Violence Against Women – 10 Years On” explores how, and why, this recurrent atrocity against women in Afghanistan continues to rise despite government and international community efforts to implement the law on the elimination of violence and the establishment of a High Commission for the Prevention of Violence against Women.
A young boy tells the story of his failed suicide bombing attack as if it was a heroic episode. “If the bomb had exploded, no one would have survived.” “Did you hope so?” “Yes, I will go back someday and kill everyone while I commit suicide.” The most petrifying words flow casually from the boy’s mouth. The main characters in Children of the Night are five boy soldiers under the age of 15. These children, who are raised as “bombs of anger” by ISIS, are war criminals and at the same time victims. How are we supposed to live with these children? How can they live a life in the world? Behind the beautiful shots captured with elaborate close-ups, director Nouranipour tackles a burdensome question.
A young woman makes an origami bracelet for her crush but when it’s intercepted by her teacher, she must go to great lengths to retrieve it.
A documentary about a picture which was taken by the journalists in 1997 in Youth Square. The movie analyses the situation of journalists and newspapers and how the political and social changes affected the conditions of media and journalism.
Showan lives in a village in Kurdistan on the border between Iran and Iraq. He has been made redundant from his workplace at the factory due to downsizing of the work force. Being forced to smuggle goods on the Iranian-Iraqi border, Showan becomes a Kolbar to make money. But as the group embark on their dangerous mountain crossing, the fear of the Iranian border guards heightens.
This documentary explores the life and thought of the Iranian “anti-Western” philosopher, Ahmad Fardid (1910-1994).
The sound of a man playing from the speaker has upset everyone in a pool.
Samad goes to war
Short Documentary about Iranian Artist Mohsen vaziri Moghaddam
"Lost In Her Hair (Monday)" starts with an excited young Iranian girl getting ready for her first day of school. As her mother is brushing her hair and dressing her, she has varied conversations with off-frame family members that reflect cultural specificities.
Sarah is a girl that lives in a rich unreligious family in Tehran and lives in a studio apartment. One night Khosro (her boyfriend) comes to Sarah's apartment with his friend Khalil. On that night Sarah overdosed on alcohol and got temporary oblivion and when she gets up the next morning findsherself alone at the home. She finds two cell phones left by Khosro at her apartment. Unable to remember what has happened last night, suddenly she notices two blood stains on the carpet.
She kills herself to be born again
Farhad, who is the son of a taxi driver and works on his father's taxi in the afternoons, is interested in his sweet classmate, but a deceitful young man named Khosrow, who is trying to marry Shirin and take over his father's fortune, wants to have a relationship. Disrupt the two. With the help of a woman named Laleh, Farhad intends to become a successful singer. Khosrow makes Shirin pessimistic about the relationship between Farhad and Laleh, and Shirin, in retaliation, turns to a young man named Jalal. After severing ties with Laleh, Farhad clarifies the matter to Shirin and goes to Shirin's courtship with his parents. Shirin's father agrees and his mother opposes the union. Khosrow's friends kidnap Shirin's father's jewelry store and drag Farhad to the police station as a thief.
