Cinematography: Adib Sobhani

Direction Shawkat Amin Korki

Cast Adil Abdolrahman · Hussein Hassan Ali · Shwan Attoof · Didar Bakir

Plot Rojin is a young Kurdish-Iraqi woman about to take the university entrance exam. Rojin's unhappily married older sister Shilan decides to help her pass at any cost, hoping to give...

Direction Nima Eghlima

Cast Sahar Dolatshahi · Hadi Kazemi · Milad Keymaram

Plot We meet 30-something Amir at a point in his life where he has become the epicentre of other people’s problems. His friend’s ex-wife has gone missing, having threatened to leave...

Direction Oktai Barahani

Cast Mahsa Bagheri · Hamed Behdad · Mohammad Reza Davoudnejad · Babak Hamidian

Plot 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...

Direction Ali Asgari · Alireza Khatami

Cast Bahram Ark · Ali Asgari · Sadaf Asgari · Ardeshir Kazemi

Plot Terrestrial Verses follows everyday people from all walks of life as they navigate the cultural, religious, and institutional constraints imposed on them by various social authorities, from school teachers to...

Direction Hadi Babaeifar

Cast Rose Tabatabaie · Gelavij Alam

Plot In Tehran, a young girl living with her mother discovers her neighbors participate in a ritual sacrifice of sheep. Determined to intervene, she hatches a plan to rescue the endangered...