Country: Iran

Direction Mitra Farahani

Cast Bahman Mohassess · Mitra Farahani

Synopsis Bahman Mohassess was a celebrated artist at the time of the Shah. Trained in Italy, he created sculptures and paintings in his homeland. But audiences often took offence at the pronounced phalli on his mostly naked bronze figures and his...

Direction Majid Majidi

Cast Mohammad Amir Naji · Amir Farrokh Hashemian · Bahare Sediqi · Fereshte Sarabandi

Synopsis Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes, Ali's. School awaits. Will the plan succeed?

Direction Bahman Ghobadi

Cast Avaz Latif · Soran Ebrahim · Hirsh Feyssal · Saddam Hossein Feysal

Synopsis In Turtles Can Fly (2004), set on the Iraq-Turkey border, a group of Kurdish refugee children navigate the harsh realities of war. The story follows 13-year-old "Satellite," a clever and resourceful boy who organizes his peers to clear landmines for...

Direction Abbas Kiarostami

Cast Hossain Sabzian · Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Synopsis A manic movie fan pretends to be film director Mohsen Makmalbaf in this film about the nature of art and documentary.

Direction Asghar Farhadi

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

Synopsis A Separation (2011) follows the emotional and legal turmoil of a middle-class Iranian couple, Nader and Simin, who face a difficult decision about their future. Simin wants to leave Iran for a better life abroad, while Nader refuses to abandon...

Direction Abolfazl Jalili

Cast Mahmood Khosravi · Limua Rahi

Synopsis Story of a young man, Ilia, who works in a brick kiln. He falls in love with a girl, Limua, who has come with her mother to work as a seasonal worker at the kiln. Ilia is haunted by mysterious...

Direction Abbas Kiarostami

Cast Babek Ahmad Poor · Ahmed Ahmed Poor · Kheda Barech Defai · Iran Outari

Synopsis Young Hamed tries to return a schoolmate's notebook he's unwittingly taken home.

Direction Forugh Farrokhzad

Synopsis The House is Black is an acclaimed Iranian documentary medium-legth film directed by Forugh Farrokhzad. The film is a look at life and suffering in a leper colony and focuses on the human condition and the beauty of creation. It...

Direction Majid Majidi

Cast Hossein Mahjoub · Salime Feizi · Mohsen Ramezani · Farahnaz Safari

Direction Bahman Ghobadi

Cast Amaneh Ekhtiar-Dini · Nezhad Ekhtiar-Dini · Ayoub Ahmadi · Jouvin Younessi

Synopsis When the youngest boy of a destitute Iranian Kurdish family suffers from a terminal illness, his young siblings struggle to pay for a life-saving operation. In desperation, the eldest sister agrees to marry an Iraqi man, willing to care for...

Direction Sohrab Shahid Saless

Cast Hibibollah Safarian · Mohammed Zamani · Anne Mohammad Tarikhi · Hedayatullah Navid

Synopsis A few days in the life of a young boy living by the Caspian Sea. At school he is falling behind his classmates and almost expelled. He helps his father to fish illegally, and at home watches as his mother's...

Direction Dariush Mehrjui

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

Synopsis 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 beautiful tomboy "M".

Direction Abbas Kiarostami

Cast Farhad Kheradmand · Buba Bayour · Hocine Rifahi · Ferhendeh Feydi

Synopsis And Life Goes On was written and directed by Kiarostami, and takes place after a terrible earthquake. The story concerns a film director traveling through the countryside with his young son, attempting to reach the village where he had previously...

Direction Asghar Farhadi

Cast Golshifteh Farahani · Taraneh Alidoosti · Mani Haghighi · Saber Abbar

Synopsis In the wake of his failed marriage in Germany, Ahmad returns to Tehran. With the holidays approaching, Ahmad's friend Sepideh organizes a weekend getaway to the Caspian Sea with a group of old college friends. But one member of the...

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Synopsis 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 the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.

Direction Sohrab Shahid Saless

Cast Zadour Bonyadi · Mohammed Kani · Habib Safaryan · Zahra Yazdani

Synopsis It clearly shows the spare life of a railroad-station manager, in a remote area, who lives in a single room with his rug-weaving wife. His retirement, when he learns of it, is virtually a sentence of death; even fully employed,...

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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

Synopsis 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, Makhmalbaf made the decision to track down the policeman whom...

Direction Majid Majidi

Cast Hossein Abedini · Zahra Bahrami · Mohammad Amir Naji · Gholam Ali Bakhshi

Synopsis In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Kurdish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.

Direction Abbas Kiarostami

Cast Hossein Rezai · Tahereh Ladanian · Zariefh Shiva · Farhad Kheradmand

Synopsis The movie focuses on one of the events in Zendegi Edame Darad (1992), and explores the relationship between the movie director, and the actors. The local actors play a couple who got married right after the earthquake. In reality, the...

Direction Seyfolah Samadian

Cast Abbas Kiarostami · Jafar Panahi · Juliette Binoche