As a Stranger

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

Rouhi, a young bride-to-be, is hired as a maid for an affluent family in Tehran. Upon arriving, she is suddenly thrust into an explosive domestic conflict. The wife is convinced her husband is having an affair and enlists Rouhi as a spy, to follow her husband, and confirm her suspicions. What Rouhi discovers, however, threatens not only their marriage but her own future.

Kaveh Nariman is a Doctor in the medical examiner's office. One day at his work he meets a corpse which is very familiar to him.

In south of Iran Farough who has a garage is not letting Sohrab to has his own job. They fight each other and in the fight Farough dies of an heart attack. His brothers are going after ...

Golrokh, an Iranian author, struggles to settle her husband's debts caused by a business partner who left him to bear the consequences.

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

Hamed and Sepideh are not in a relationship anymore; they parted ways and the college years in which they watched movies together are just a far-off memory. Hamed has pursued his passion for music, he has recently released his first album and has been married for a year with a music instructor, Minoo. Sepideh has become an English teacher for preschoolers and is now wed to a builder, Massoud, who ironically can’t seem to build a solid marriage. In spite of everything, Hamed hasn’t forgotten about Sepideh yet and, when she goes back to their hometown, Minoo encourages her husband to meet her and clear his mind about what he really wants. With the collusion of a long time friend who owns a stationer, Hamed orchestrates an accidental meeting with Sepideh, in the attempt to find out more about her current life and, at the same time, to put himself to test.

In an Iran weighed down by a struggling economy, two middle-aged brothers live with their bullying father. A man prone to rages and driven by chauvinism, the father’s abusiveness found his second wife leaving him. Now he picks on his eldest son, while the younger sibling fantasises about ways to kill his father. When the man rents out the flat above to a young woman, with intentions of marrying her, the woman’s attraction to the older son slowly pushes this profoundly damaged family to breaking point.

A young woman tries to deal with the insight that her brother is dying. Shabnam is a photographer and sister of a famous war photographer, Hamed. Just before she goes to a party, she is told that the brother has been injured and is in hospital. Shabnam is dragged into a series of strange events, where the boundary between rus and reality is blurred. The debuting feature film directors are also film and art critics in Iran, Bonakdar himself artist - hardly surprising given the film's strong image awareness. It also has to be overlooked with the bit-wise banal depictions of cocaine scrambling and dangerous men.

Laleh is a true story of a young woman in post-revolution Iran, struggling against all odds to break through in one of the most male dominated sports worldwide.

The story is about a woman who, upon entering an all-boys school to find her son, encounters the strange and humorous behavior of the principal, the administrator, and the teachers, as if each of them has a hidden secret and is trying to mislead her with laughter and jokes.

A hacker group empty a bank account of a big strong person. The story goes on and now they must pay for that.

Couples after twelve years of life have now come to some sort of homogeneity in life.

On the eve of his first show, rock musician Siavash (Ali Ghorbanzadeh) makes a pilgrimage to the grave of his late father, killed during the Iran-Iraq War. But soon thereafter, a friend reveals that Siavash's father is still alive, a POW being held in Tehran. With the help of his girlfriend (Hedyeh Tehrani), Siavash struggles to make sense of the news. Saman Moghadam wrote and directed this portrait of young Iranians in the aftermath of war.

The film tells the story of an old tar maker who interacts with a group of young people who practice music at home. In his own mind, he sometimes imagines Iranian music masters instead of them, and we hear enduring Persian songs from those masters.

Between the years 1941-51, many immigrants went to the south of Iran to work for the oil companies there. A couple, Tal'at and Karamat also go there in hope of a better life. But Tal'at, who is pregnant, catches leperosy and they have to remain outside the city. The husband makes a tea-house and they stay there. An immigrant girl Manzar who had lost her parents, come to the tea-house and lives by them too.

The narrator lives in a savior who lives in Mashhad, and his job is to steal from the pilgrims of the shrine of Imam Reza (AS), through which he has lost his life, but ultimately, those who lose this story will overcome the stories of the film...

A simple kind woman leads a hard, unsatisfactory life with her husband. She unintentionally caused her husband's death. But she begins a new life with his dead body.

In an act of vengeance, a young man randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.

When his business partner is hurt in a car accident, happily married Mahmoud (Fariborz Arabnia) must travel to Tehran, where he falls for the beautiful Sima (Hedye Tehrani). The two agree to a "temporary marriage," but problems arise when Sima doesn't want the arrangement to end. Sima's reluctance to play her expected role in this common Islamic practice soon turns to obsession in this smash hit from Iran.

A boy and a girl, betrothed since childhood, are still fond of each other as teenagers.

Diba and Siamak with the help of a young couple Nader and Roya decide to steal from a wedding ceremony. They steal some jewelry and escape but the cops are after them.

Amin is a young journalist who goes to jail because of something that he wrote, his friends want to free him, but they can't so they decided to make money by throwing parties at his sister's house, but everything gets worse.

A grieving woman dealing with the loss of her son seeks therapy to move on.

Hamid and Mahin are husband and wife and are traveling to the north by their car. But in the way they have an accident with a rural woman. Unlike his wife's disagreement Hamid decides to escape the scene and lives the woman to die but it is only the beginning of his troubles.

The story is about a family who their only interest is money and fortunes, so they forget about family relationships and respect.

Ali needs a job to take care of his mother. His uncle arranges for him to work at a print shop, but that job has also been promised to another boy...

Hossein, who is about to marry his cousin Fereshteh for the second time, suddenly finds out that his long-lost son Reza is actually alive and living with his old friend Ahmad and Ahmad's wife, Maryam.

On the evening of his wedding to the beautiful Shewa, Pourya receives a startling revelation from his secretary Sholeh in front of all the guests. Desperate to win back Shewa's favor, he goes to the office to confront Sholeh, only to receive another nasty shock. Desperate to escape his circumstances, Pourya takes drastic action to ensure no one will bother him again. Now, years later, Pourya wants to right the wrongs of the past, but at what cost? Intense drama combines with exciting thrills in this superb film. Featuring a stunning soundtrack by Shadmehr Aghili, this film is as tense as it is atmospheric.

An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to abandon the relationship with the poor girl, the old man makes his final choice of love.

Farhad has lost his eyesight due to an injury sustained in battle. As part of his recovery, he is transferred to a temporary hospital, where he encounters young nurse Sheida. Sheida is surprised by his tolerance to the pain of his injury, but soon realises that her recitation of Quran verses has a miraculous calming effect on him. And as the two start to grow closer and Farhad begins to heal, they find themselves on the path between faith and hope, and the true nature of both is revealed to them.

A veterinarian called Habib who has tried to expose the crimes of Shoulan, decides to commit suicide under the pressures of Shoulan. He meets a girl called Niloufar who persuades him to commit suicide. Habib does not know that Niloufar is Shoulan's last trick to perish him. Niloufar who dreams of being a singer over the borders, tries her best to kill Habib.

Majid (Mohammad Reza Forutan) and Nasim (Mahtab Karamati) seem to be a perfect match but everything doesn't seem to work out as it appears

Bita Hokmi, the daughter of a conservative and deeply religious family, gets accepted as a graphic design major and leaves Isfahan, her hometown for Tehran and moves in with a relative of hers, a divorced woman named Sima. Bita meets Farhad, an architecture student, in the university and although Sima warns her not to date Farhad, she does so anyway ...

A comedy film about surrogacy and the problems that arise for the family in this way so that they can handle their financial problems, but this is just the beginning of the problems.

It is a story of five different episodes and is about a valentine's day present which rounds from hand to hand till finally.

Jalal who has left his wife, is planning to rob a residential complex. There, he finds out about a bombing conspiracy. The next day he informs the police and he is arrested as the only suspect. Major Hashemi, who is in charge of the case finds some clues finds out that Jalal is innocent after some interrogations. When the conspirators realize that the police are after them, they change their plans. Now, the police has to follow two cases at the same time; that is, helping Jalal and finding the bombing conspiracy at The Tehran International Exhibition Center. ...

When a man is released from prison he suffers great hardship attempting to start all over again and adjust to society. Just when he believes he has finally got his life back together, with a new job coupled with the interest of a beautiful woman - a targeted mugging leaves him looking like a thief. Vowing to never return to the criminal life he was once a part of, he goes on a desperate search to locate the real culprits so he can clear his name. But how dangerous will this mission be? Who will believe in his innocence enough to help him? An astonishing tale about redemption and the allure of crime.

Four women from various walks of life attempt to embezzle money from a credit institution

Omid, Mohsen and Safa are the sons of Sarahi who grew up in a neighborhood called Ajri and with the support of Mr. Atabki. Omid falls in love with Mahor, the girl who taught him French...

Captain Jamali, whose husband was killed by a smuggling ring, is assigned by law enforcement to infiltrate the gang. She identifies them and reports to the police until...

Esfandiar, the father of six daughters who longs for a son, is now awaiting the birth of his seventh child and believes that this time he will finally have a boy.