Cinematography: Ebrahim Ghafori

Direction Siddiq Barmak

Cast Marina Golbahari · Khawaja Nader · Arif Herati · Gol Rahman Ghorbandi

Plot A 12 year-old girl, her mother and a young boy named Spandi, survive the demonstrations organized by Afghan women who had been repressed by the Taliban regime. The girl and...

Direction Samira Makhmalbaf

Cast Massumeh Naderi · Zahra Naderi · Ghorbanali Naderi · Zahra Saghrisaz

Plot After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cast Nelofer Pazira · Hassan Tantaï · Sadou Teymouri · Hayatalah Hakimi

Plot Nafas is a reporter who was born in Afghanistan, but fled with her family to Canada when she was a child. However, her sister wasn't so lucky; she lost her...

Direction Marzieh Makhmalbaf

Cast Gol-Ghotai · Zahed · Agheleh Rezaie · Sohrab Akbari

Plot Two children are orphaned in post-Taliban Afghanistan.

Direction Marzieh Makhmalbaf

Cast Fatemeh Cherag Akhar · Hassan Nebhan · Shahr Banou Sisizadeh · Ameneh Passand

Plot This is the story of women at three stages of life in Iran. The first part centers on a young girl on her ninth birthday who is told that she...

Direction Samira Makhmalbaf

Cast Saeid Mohammadi · Bahman Ghobadi · Mohammad Karim Rahmati · Behnaz Jaffari

Direction Samira Makhmalbaf · Claude Lelouch · Youssef Chahine · Danis Tanovic

Cast Ernest Borgnine · Ken Ogata · Tetsurô Tanba · Tomorô Taguchi

Plot A reaction piece to the United States' terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, this controversial film calls upon eleven directors from various countries to contribute 11-minute 9-second films about the...

Direction Samira Makhmalbaf

Cast Agheleh Rezaie · Abdolgani Yousefrazi · Razi Mohebi

Plot Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how...

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cast Tahmineh Normatova · Nadereh Abdelahyeva · Golsibi Ziadolahyeva · Hakem Gasem

Plot Everyday, 10-year old Khorsid takes the bus to his work at an instrument maker's shop and everyday something unexpected happens.

Direction Mohammad Rasoulof

Cast Hassan Poorshirazi · Younes Ghazali · Mohammad Rabbani · Mohammad Shirvani

Direction Jafar Panahi

Cast Khadije Bahrami · Kambiz Bahrami

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cast Daler Nazarov · Mariam Gaibova · Farzona Beknazarova · Tahmineh Ebrahimova

Plot In the midst of a mid-life crisis Jan, a 40 year old dancing teacher, decides to tell his four lovers about each other.