A married couple are faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
During the uprising to overthrow the Shah's regime in Iran, protestors set fire to movie theatres to protest Western culture. Forty years later, four people decide to re-create the past by burning down a theatre.
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.
After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie. As he attempts to improve matters between mother and daughter Ahmad unwittingly lifts the lid on a long buried secret...
A coming of age story of boy Turi and his younger sister Teresa on an island off the coast of Sicily.
A man and his two children are late for their flight. While they wait for the next flight something happens that changes his point of view about being a father.
In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.
Timo, the youngest of a Greek community of Funfair workers, will have to face the hardest winter together with his loved ones.
The Badger is the story of a 40-year-old woman called Soodeh Sharifzadegan who faces a strange incident, right before her second marriage.
A playwright Iran tries to confront a creative crisis while political clashes erupt during her country's 2009 election.
Participants assigned a specific character in a role-playing game undertake a fictional train journey to an island, in order to win a cash prize, only for the competition to become a microcosm of the limitations they experience in their real lives.
Hassan Karkhaneh, a veteran detective on the verge of promotion, is faced with the case of a woman who vanished following a suspicious accident. Despite psychological pressure and systemic opposition, he grows suspicious of the mysterious Maahak and launches a private investigation. Caught between the law, his conscience, and a mental breakdown, Hassan must decide how far he is willing to go to save Leila.
Lantouri is the name of a gang that mugs people in broad daylight on the streets of Tehran and breaks into homes in the city’s rich northern district. The gang also kidnaps children from families who have become wealthy through corruption and embezzlement of state funds. The film begins with the confessions of individual gang members. Sociologists, human rights activists and political hardliners also have their say. Gang member Pasha runs amok because Maryam, a socially committed, self-confident journalist, does not reciprocate his feelings. The badly injured young woman demands lex talionis – the law, applicable in Iran, of ‘an eye for an eye’.
The film Saddam is about a man who, due to his resemblance to Saddam Hussein, becomes one of Saddam's Stunters and is scheduled to carry out an operation in Tehran.
As Raman prepares to migrate out of Iran, his friends plot the perfect way to celebrate his impending departure. However, their path is plagued with conflict; an unresolved argument over the accidental death of a friend and a conservative elder brother who looks upon their lives with disdain, further resolves to stop the celebration.
Ali learns through medical documents the sudden recurrence of his son's incurable genetic disorder. Deciding to hide the matter from the rest of the family, he finds himself helpless and starts behaving strangely.
After growing up in an orphanage, Abolfazl embarks on a journey to find his real mother. His path leads him through friendship, love, loss, and war—until he discovers where he truly belongs.
Maryam Zademeh is a successful lawyer. One of her clients, Atiyeh, is beaten by her husband Jalil, who is suspected of being paranoid. Zademeh obtains a divorce decree from the court, and Jalil seeks revenge on him. The story revolves around the harassment of the husband and the lawyer's marriage, which ends in a full-fledged tragedy...
'Ungrateful' is a romantic drama that takes place at the time of Moses and charts the stories, alliances and feuds between a number of Jewish tribes. Among other stories and subplots, it tells the story of two Jewish cousins, Ameel and Ashel, who both want to marry Anael, the beautiful girl of the tribe. But a murder disturbs the peace of their Jewish tribes. This film is inspired by the famous story of Moses' sacrificial cow.
The story takes place at the time of Iran-Iraq war, 1988 (1367); When the pressure cooker in the house exploded and the father of the family was severely injured and eventually died, that was when Tehran was bombed.
Ali, along with his wife and two children, has moved to a small town for work and life. To keep their peace, he hides a secret from his family, but things are slowly happening...
In 1979, amidst censorship and religious extremism, a revolutionary literature professor in Tehran gathers seven of her most dedicated female students to immerse themselves in banned literary classics.
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