Drowning in Holy Water

one night, three friends, untold secrets.

Neda decides to smuggle narcotics out of Iran to solve her financial problems and the custody battle with her ex-husband over their young child. However, her inexperience leads to drastic medical problems that threaten her life. Unraveling over the course of a few hours, her deteriorating situation and her unlikely friendship with another smuggler create a tense, thrilling experience.

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.

After being arrested and having his medical practice shut down, an Iranian doctor loses faith in the future and resolves to end his life - but one final day among his family begins to unsettle his decision.

Amir and Yassi are in the middle of a road trip where a make-shift game reveals the hidden sides of their characters and their unique relationship

A disabled child living with his parents tries to relate emotionally to other members of his family.

Shakib is a homeless day laborer who never got over the loss of his wife and son in an earthquake years ago. Over the last couple of years, he has developed a relationship with a deaf and mute woman, Ladan. The construction site on which he works today turns out to be the set of a film about the atrocities committed by Hitler during WWII. Against all odds, he is given a movie role, a house and a chance at being somebody. When Ladan learns about this, she comes to his workplace begging for help. Shakib’s scheme to hide her goes tragically wrong and threatens to ruin his newfound status and what seemed to be the opportunity of a lifetime.

Vilaeiha is the story of the families of the Iranian's army leaders in 1986. Aziz is a 50 years old woman who enters the Villas complex with her grand children. Elyas is a driver who when comes here, all become tension that maybe he brings bad news about the army leaders who fight in the front lines. After a while Cima who is Aziz' daughter-in-law comes to take her children away with her.

There are seven stories of seven women. Though each has her own individual story, none had the chance of finding love having lost control of their destiny through either forced marriage or rape.

Bahram, a censored director, embarks on a Vespa trip with producer Sadaf to clandestinely screen his film in Iran, challenging the system.

A teenage girl gets involved in the process of delivering a pack of cocaine to its client, and gets stuck in a weird cycle of occurrences.

The Rainbow Commune disappears sooner than you think, before you can show it to anyone else ...

The Earth Marathon

A crime scene investigation is in progress.

A movie directed by Yalda Jebeli

The truth carries a heavy burden, whether it is said that it sets off a storm, or it remains in the heart that disturbs man. Between telling the truth and revealing a secret or being silent and expedient, one is preferable to the other.

Zaid, 15, lives near Kabul with his mother and sister. Between school, his friends and his hobbies, he seems to be flourishing in a city in ruins after the war. But when his mother tells him it’s time to get married, his ambitions crumble and the heavy secret of his freedom must come to an end.

A school teacher from Tehran is preparing to attend a wedding in northern Iran. When her husband suddenly forbids her to go, she makes a choice that will place her on a painful path to atonement.

A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s license, applying for a job, or seeking approval for a film script, if you live in Iran, you best come fluent in Orwellian discourse.

A trans man and his partner travel to a remote Iranian village to face his estranged father and obtain documents that would permit them to live authentically, in visionary director Farnoosh Samadi’s bold queer love story.

Amir, a young Iranian, signs on with a fisherman on the rugged Caspian Sea coast in order to earn the money he needs to marry his sweetheart, Narges. But in so doing, he becomes entangled in the criminal machinations of caviar poaching. Piece by piece, a complex hierarchy is revealed in a parallel realm that becomes ever more constricting and oppressive, endangering Amir’s relationship with Narges as well.

Noushin is a single mother who lives by her girl alone and has a peaceful life but when a foreign guy enters their life everything changes for them and new secrets reveal.

The story of courage and sacrifice of Iranians in the time of war and famine.

The story is a few young people who are involved in a personal problem and gathered at the Astara border in a cottage by the water to get off the border with the help of a cannabis, but…

Meysam and Tina have just married and are renting a new building. One day they start washing the car in the parking lot and a few hours later they find out that it has fallen down. They have doubts whethet to tell the truth or hide it from their neighbors, and conflict between them to find the culprit ensues. Then they discover more serious problems.

Jonas (Saeed Aghakhani), a former Iranian soldier during the Iran-Iraq War, sets out to search for his fallen brother's bodies years after they were killed in action.

Student Fereshteh has to hide her illegitimate baby for one night from her parents who turn up for a surprise visit. Her friend Atefeh helps her. They embark on an odyssey through Tehran during which they must carefully weigh up who their allies are.

The story of the last birthday begins when the Taliban have returned to power. In a city full of worries and fears, the father of the family is trying to maintain his normal life while the Taliban rule.

A romantic story set against the backdrop of social events and war; an anti-war narrative that depicts the impact of violence on human lives and emphasizes the importance of peace.

After leaking of a video of her class in a women only swimming pool, Parvaneh is brutally murdered by her husband, Hashem, who seeks a way to redeem his reputation and dignity as the godfather in the neighborhood. Hashem’s brother, Hojat, embarks a journey into the labyrinths of underground in Tehran to find out who is responsible for this dirty game. Once wrongfully accused for smuggling drugs, he returns to the world of crime to trace his brother’s rivals…

Leili and Pasha, who were once in a relationship, unexpectedly meet each other at a mutual friend’s wedding ceremony. Told in flashback, the film makes us dive into their past and witness how they met, how tension arose between them and how the dilemma between love and personal freedom ultimately led to their separation – all accompanied by a pop soundtrack making their tale an electrifying adventure.

The film chronicles the life of a woman who experiences various events over the course of thirty years.

A theater directed by Nasir Malekijoo

The adventure of a plane crash with passengers who have different secrets; the secrets that are not supposed to remain hidden forever...

The Golden Night