Soundtrack: Peyman Yazdanian

Direction Li Ruijun

Cast Wu Renlin · Christina Hai · Guangrui Yang · Dengping Zhao

Plot Ma and Guiying lead lives that are similarly sheltered and difficult. He is a reticent farmer, the last of his family to remain unmarried; she is disabled and infertile, and...

Direction Abbas Kiarostami

Cast Behzad Dourani · Noghre Asadi · Bahman Ghobadi · Shahpour Ghobadi

Plot Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with...

Direction Asghar Farhadi

Cast Hediyeh Tehrani · Taraneh Alidoosti · Hamid Farokhnezhad · Pantea Bahram

Plot Hired as a maid for constantly feuding couple Morteza and Mojdeh, bride-to-be Rouhi is thrust headfirst into a whirlwind of middle-class commotion in rising star Asghar Farhadi’s perceptive and superblyacted...

Direction Mohammad Rasoulof

Cast Reza Akhlaghirad · Soudabeh Beizaee · Nasim Adabi · Missagh Zareh

Plot Reza leads a simple life along with his wife and sole son, somewhere in a remote village in Northern Iran. He spends his days working in his goldfish farm. Nearby,...

Direction Li Yu

Cast Bao Zhenjiang · Sylvia Chang · Wilson Chen · Yu Chen

Direction Vahid Jalilvand

Cast Amir Aghaee · Zakieh Behbahani · Saeed Dakh · Navid Mohammadzadeh

Plot Kaveh Nariman is a coroner in the medical examiner's office. One day at his work he meets a corpse which is very familiar to him.

Direction Lou Ye

Cast Bai Xueyun · Cui Lin · Duan Yihong · Guo Xiaodong

Plot Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. At university, she discovers an intense world of sexual freedom and forbidden pleasure. Enraptured,...

Direction Jafar Panahi

Cast Hussein Emadeddin · Kamyar Sheissi · Azita Rayeji · Shahram Vaziri

Direction Lou Ye

Cast Hao Lei · Eric Qin · Qi Xi · Zu Feng

Plot Lu Jie has no idea her husband Yongzhao is leading a double life, until the day she sees him entering a hotel with a young woman. Her world crumbles -...

Direction Ramin Bahrani

Cast Ahmad Razvi · Leticia Dolera · Charles Daniel Sandoval · Ali Reza

Plot The life of a former Pakistani rock star who now sells coffee from his push cart on the streets of Manhattan. MAN PUSH CART tells the story of Ahmad (Ahmad...

Direction Lou Ye

Cast Eric Qin · Chen Sicheng · Wu Wei · Tan Zhuo

Plot Hired to spy on a philandering husband, Luo Haitao soon becomes entangled in a clandestine affair with the other man. Along with Luo's girlfriend, they succumb to the delirium of...

Direction Lou Ye

Cast Tahar Rahim · Jalil Lespert · Lika Minamoto · Corinne Yam

Plot In Paris, the Chinese university student Hua is dumped by her lover. Hua wanders on the streets and the French worker Mathieu accidentally hits her face with the pipes that...

Direction Mani Haghighi

Cast Hassan Majooni · Leila Hatami · Leili Rashidi · Parinaz Izadyar

Plot Iranian directors are getting slaughtered by an unknown serial killer and a blacklisted director, Hasan Kasmai, is curious about only one thing: Why isn't the killer after him?

Direction Bahman Farmanara

Cast Bahman Farmanara · Leila Hatami · Fatemah Motamed-Aria · Saber Abbar

Plot Taher Mohebi is a well-known writer who, after witnessing a violent murder, breaks down and spends three years in a mental institution. After release he is told that things are...

Direction Abbas Kiarostami

Direction Panahbarkhoda Rezaee

Cast Amir Aghaee · Afsar Asadi · Elham Hamidi · Chakameh Chaman Mah

Plot The story of Narges a young girl who has studied literature in Moscow and now is back in Iran. But once again she decides to go back to Russia for...

Direction Ali Mosaffa

Cast Homayoun Ershadi · Leila Hatami · Zahra Hatami · Zhila Sohrabi

Direction Kamal Tabrizi

Cast Reza Attaran · Pantea Bahram · Bahram Ebrahimi · Nader Fallah

Plot After an unexpected incident happens for a middle-aged man's wife's corpse, he gets very depressed, anxious and violent.

Direction Farshad Hashemi

Cast Farshad Hashemi · Mahboubeh Gholami · Ebrahim Azizi · Zahra Aghapour

Direction Firouzeh Khosrovani

Cast Firouzeh Khosrovani · Soheila Golestani · Christophe Rezai

Plot "Mother married a photo of Father" says director Firouzeh Khosrovani in the opening of this personal documentary. She's not speaking metaphorically though. Her mother Tayi literally married a portrait of...