Cinematography: Koohyar Kalari

Direction Rakhshan Bani Etemad

Cast Peyman Moaadi · Golab Adineh · Farhad Aslani · Mohammad Reza Forutan

Plot Tales (Ghesseha) features mostly female characters from Rakhshan Banietemad’s previous films, people who represent different layers of the society. The film also depicts a courageous and honest image of today’s...

Direction Mani Haghighi

Cast Mahnaz Afshar · Ahmad Hamed · Mahmoud Kalari · Reza Kianian

Plot A political allegory on four middle-class guys who pile into their car for a ski weekend. A brief stop at a picturesque vista leads to their chance discovery of a...

Direction Mania Akbari

Cast Mania Akbari · Amin Maher · Behnaz Jaffari · Roya Arabshahi

Plot In this sequel to Abbas Kiarostami’s Ten (2002), Mania Akbari, the leading actress of the film, again drives a car and talks to her son, her sister and other people....

Direction Jamshid Mahmoudi

Cast Mohsen Tanabandeh · Mojtaba Pirzadeh · Fatemeh Hosseini · Fereshteh Hosseini

Plot Azim, an Afghan refugee, who works at the municipality at night, lives in Tehran along with his family. Being the head of entire family and as the eldest brother, he...

Direction Ayat Najafi

Cast Sara Najafi · Imed Alibi · Elise Caron · Jeanne Cherhal

Plot In Iran, since the 1979 Islamic revolution, women are no longer allowed to sing in public as soloists - at least in front of men. Defying censorship and taboos, the...

Direction Navid Mahmoudi

Cast Reza Ahmadi · Fereshteh Hosseini · Behrang Alavi · Nazanin Bayati

Plot Two young Afghans,Fereshteh and Nabi, are in love, but Fereshteh has to follow her parents and leave Afghanistan to find refuge in Iran. Nabi decides to illegally cross the border,...