Meşhur Kimden Iran, Islamic Republic of

Galin is a grumpy gorilla that lives in a forest. He didn’t have any friends until someday a banana smiled at him and everything changed.

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

Story of Azerbaijan, from Sheikh Safi-al-din Ardabili to establishment of Safavid dynasty by King (Shah) Ismail in Iran, and Sheikh Safi-al-din Khanegah and Shrine Ensemble in Ardabil.

A short film from early works of Majid Khadem.

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

This Iraninan documentary is a portrait of an ordinary man who is quite talkative, works as a house painter and is into cinema.

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.

For the sparrow, the boll is a small excuse for greater experience.

A true murder story...

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.

This films follows the emotionally intense experience of Saghari staying in her mother’s room, sleeping on her death bed, and trying to experience her point of view by going through her mundane objects. "Ghazal no 884" by Poet Bidel Dehlavi is read by a friend, sent as a voice message on Whatsapp as soothing company to calm the grieving moment. Mirza Abdul-Qader Bidel (Bidel Dehlavi) was born in 1644 in (Azim Abad) Penta, India. The themes of his poems are influenced by multitudes of philosophies including Hindu, Sufi and Islamic traditions. Following the ideas of Ebn al-ʿArabī, he considered air (an aspect of nafas-e Raḥmānī, the breath of the Compassionate) to be the foundation of the world and spirit. Everything else –minerals, plants, animals –are viewedas the product of nature, which itself emerged from a single word brought into being through the articulation of “the breath of the Compassionate”.

Ommidvar brothers travel to Saudi Arabia and from there to Africa

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…

The life of the natives of Amazon made by the Ommidvar brothers, Iranian travelers

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