Soundtrack: Mohammad Reza Darvishi

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 Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Plot Documentary showing the life of children of the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by Taliban regime.

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 Mohammad Rasoulof

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

Direction Mohammad Reza Aslani

Cast Ezzatolah Entezami · Mahtab Keramati · Mehdi Ahmadi · Pegah Ahangarani

Plot Based on an ancient story Sang-e Sabor it's the story of a girl Nardaneh who one day hears a voice telling her that soon she will marry with a dead...

Direction Mohammad-Ali Talebi

Cast Jairan Abadzade · Shirin Bina · Masume Eskandari · Hossein Kalantar

Plot A child and her neighbor are trying to buy a sack of rice...

Direction Maziar Miri

Cast Mohammad Reza Forutan · Niloofar Khoshkholgh · Hassan Poorshirazi · Maryam Boubani

Direction Shawkat Amin Korki

Cast Adil Abdolrahman · Hussein Hassan Ali · Aba Rash · Ayam Akram

Plot A road movie set in Iraq in 2003 during the fall of Saddam. Two Kurds are looking for the parents of a five-year-old boy who has been found in the...

Direction Dariush Mehrjui

Cast Neda Aghaei · Masoumeh Bakhshi · Mohammad Habibian · Ghader Heydari

Plot A woman tries to escape from the much older man she was forced to marry.

Direction Hana Makhmalbaf

Direction Mamad Haghighat

Cast Siavash Lashkari · Mehran Rajabi · Golshifteh Farahani · Hassan Nahidi

Plot In a small religious town in Iran, Ali After a fight with his father, escapes to the desert where he hears music for the first time in his life: a...

Direction Bahram Beizai

Cast Mozhdeh Shamsai · Shaghayegh Farahani · Majid Mozaffari · Hedayat Hashemi

Plot Chakameh who has lost both her husband and child in a car accident meets a guy who recently been released from prison. While she is under pressure from the lawyers...