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?

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

A documentary about the Paykan, Iran's former national car, and its fate.

Shot on super 8, MEN OF MY DREAMS unfolds a series of vignettes that toy with the unstable ground between fact and fiction. The streets of Los Angeles, May 30th 2020.