Cinematography: Mahmoud Kalari

Direction Asghar Farhadi

Cast Peyman Moaadi · Leila Hatami · Sareh Bayat · Shahab Hosseini

Plot Nader (Peyman Moaadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami) argue about living abroad. Simin prefers to live abroad to provide better opportunities for their only daughter, Termeh. However, Nader refuses to go...

Direction Dariush Mehrjui

Cast Homayoun Ershadi · Golshifteh Farahani · Shaghayegh Farahani · Sassan Bagherpour

Plot Esteemed writer Mahmoud suffers from writers block. While trying to work at the family estate, concerns about an unproductive pear tree trigger in him memories of his childhood love for...

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Plot Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about...

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cast Mirhadi Tayebi · Ali Bakshi · Ammar Tafti · Maryam Mohamadamini

Plot The film is a semi-autobiographical account of Makmahlbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a seventeen-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally and was jailed. Two decades later,...

Direction Abbas Kiarostami

Cast Behzad Dourani · Noghre Asadi · Bahman Ghobadi · Shahpour Ghobadi

Plot Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with...

Direction Asghar Farhadi

Cast Bérénice Bejo · Tahar Rahim · Babak Karimi · Ali Mosaffa

Plot The story concerns an Iranian man (Ali Mosaffa) who goes back to his home country after wanting a divorce from his wife in France, but when he returns, he finds...

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cast Shaghayeh Djodat · Hossein Moharami · Roghieh Moharami · Abbas Sayahi

Plot When an old couple washes their gabbeh - a type of Persian rug - a young woman magically appears and tells them her life story.

Direction Jafar Panahi

Cast Sima Mobarak Shahi · Safar Samandar · Shayesteh Irani · M. Kheyrabadi

Plot Who is that strange boy sitting quietly in the corner of a bus full of screaming fans going to the football match? In fact, this shy boy is a girl...

Direction Nacer Khemir

Cast Parviz Shahinkhou · Maryam Hamid · Mohsen Panahi

Plot A visual poem of incomparable beauty, this masterpiece from director Nacer Khemir (Wanderers of the Desert) begins with the story of a blind dervish named Bab’Aziz and his spirited granddaughter,...

Direction Abbas Kiarostami · Ken Loach · Ermanno Olmi

Cast Carlo Delle Piane · Valeria Bruni Tedeschi · Silvana De Santis · Filippo Trojano

Plot This film charts the emotional odyssey of six characters over the course of a railway journey from Austria to Rome.

Direction Majid Majidi

Cast Parviz Parastui · Roya Taymourian · Afarin Obeisi · Mahmoud Behraznia

Direction Dariush Mehrjui

Cast Niki Karimi · Yasman Malek-Nasr · Khosro Shakibai · Amin Tarokh

Plot Sara is the perfect young housewife, eager to serve. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who get the funds. For the next three years,...

Direction Shahram Mokri

Cast Abed Abest · Mona Ahmadi · Ainaz Azarhoush · Nazanin Babaei

Direction Mani Haghighi

Cast Hassan Majooni · Leila Hatami · Leili Rashidi · Parinaz Izadyar

Plot Iranian directors are getting slaughtered by an unknown serial killer and a blacklisted director, Hasan Kasmai, is curious about only one thing: Why isn't the killer after him?

Direction Ali Hatami

Cast Faramarz Sadighi · Amin Tarokh · Akbar Abdi · Jamshid Hashempur

Plot A movie about the Iranian classical musicians in Ghajar era and their struggle to release their first Record which takes them on a journey to France.

Direction Bahman Farmanara

Cast Reza Kianian · Babak Hamidian · Maryam Boubani · Bita Farahi

Plot Mr. Namdar is an artist who lives by himself alone in a remote village peacefully. But when his niece comes from the city to the village to visit him his...

Direction Peyman Moaadi

Cast Leila Hatami · Peyman Moaadi · Siamak Ansari · Habib Rezaei

Plot The film is based on the Tehran's Bombardment conditions in 1988.

Direction Ebrahim Hatamikia

Cast Parviz Parastui · Merila Zarei · Babak Hamidian · Amir Aghaee

Plot A government bodyguard protects a politician from a suicide bomber, and then begins to question his dedication to his job.

Direction Ali Raffi

Cast Reza Kianian · Roya Nonahali · Golshifteh Farahani · Maryam Saadat

Plot After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now...

Direction Naser Taghvai

Cast Akbar Abdi · Hossein Sarshar · Gholamhossein Naghshineh · Akbar Moazezi

Plot Towards the end of the Shahanshah's reign, Sergeant Makvandi is assigned the commander of the gendarmerie station in a small town. A stern disciplinarian, Sergeant Makvandi tries to impose order...