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- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsPayman MaadiLeila HatamiSareh BayatA married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsTaraneh AlidoostiGolshifteh FarahaniShahab HosseiniThe mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
- DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsNegar ShaghaghiAshkan KoshanejadHamed BehdadIranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert - and the visas that allow them to leave Tehran to do so.
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsSima Mobarak-ShahiShayesteh IraniAyda SadeqiThe struggle of women in a country that excludes them from entering stadiums.
- DirectorShahriar BahraniStarsAmin ZendeganiMahmoud PakniatHossein MahjoubSolomon, Prophet and the King, has asked God to give him an ideal kingdom which has never been given to anybody before. He is told to prepare himself and his subjects with evil and unearthly creatures that haunt the men.
- DirectorFereydoun JeyraniStarsKatayoun RiahiHanieh TavassoliMohammad Reza GolzarMrs. Mashreghi, who is a prominent university professor, is divorced from her husband. She leads a happy life for a while until one her students who is almost the same age of her daughter falls in love with her; a love which is completely rejected by society.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsKhosro ShakibaiEzzatolah EntezamiHossein SarsharHamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph. D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.
- DirectorTahmineh MilaniStarsNiki KarimiMerila Zare'iMohammad Reza ForutanA sensation when released in 1999 in Iran, Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic. Tahimine Milani creates this scathing portrait of those traditions - aided by official indifference - which conspire to trap women and stop them from realizing their full potential; the inclusion of frank depictions of domestic violence was hailed by many as a breakthrough in dealing with a long taboo subject.
- DirectorTahmineh MilaniStarsMahnaz AfsharMohammad Reza GolzarAtila PesianiThe domestic problems of a wealthy young couple goes through the scrutiny of an adroit psychologist to be solved.
- DirectorKambuzia PartoviStarsFereshteh Sadre OrafaiyParviz ParastuiNikos Papadopoulos"Cafe Transit" depicts an independent-minded widow who bucks tradition to run her dead husband's truck stop café.
- DirectorMaryam KeshavarzStarsSarah KazemyNikohl BoosheriReza Sixo SafaiA wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.
- DirectorHamid NematollahStarsMohammad Reza GolzarGolshifteh FarahaniReza RooygariEti, a 17-year-old girl from a poor family, wants to escape her infernal class boundaries with the help of Jahan, a young man.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsHamid FarrokhnezhadLeila HatamiGohar KheirandishA domestic Iranian flight is taken hostage by a man Ghasem who is a refugee of war and has financial problems. He will go any distance for his family and wants to find a better place for living.
- DirectorTahmineh MilaniStarsNiki KarimiMohammad NikbinAtila PesianiAn official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsParviz ParastuiReza KianianHabib RezaeiThe Glass Agency is the story of a war veteran living in post war Iran. It depicts veterans who are suffering from social problems after the war. Society does not understand them and the standard social norms are not in harmony with their personalities.
- DirectorKamal TabriziStarsParviz ParastuiBahram EbrahimiReza SaeediA recently jailed petty thief disguises as a Mullah and succeeds in escaping; but has to stay in the Mullah' role longer than he expected to.
- DirectorAhmad Reza DarvishStarsKhosro ShakibaiBita FarahiReza KianianDuring the Iran-Iraq war, Reza's wife gives birth, and dies soon afterward. Reza is taken as POW. Shokooh finds Reza's baby and raises her as her own. Many years later, Reza find's his daughter again...
- DirectorParisa BakhtavarStarsBaran KosariSaber AbarMehran ModiriMohammad is sent to an apartment situated in uptown Tehran to install their satellite dishes, while having satellite TV is illegal in Iran. He arrives there with a girl named Shirin who seems to be his girlfriend and is in need of some money to repair her father's car with which she has had an accident the day before. Each of the house's residents have their own fish to fry and they also want their satellites installed as soon as possible.
- DirectorVaruzh Karim-MasihiStarsHamed KomailyBahram RadanTaraneh AlidoostiSiavash Roozbehan is a young man and he has lost his father after his mysterious suicide.His uncle is managing his father's wealth. He is in love with his cousin Mahtab whose father is his uncle's councilor. Siavash gradually realizes that his uncle is going to marry his mother. After some days he also sees a lot of similarities between his own life and of Shakespeare's Hamlet. He goes to Garo, his best friend, and they try to change the end of the tragic story.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsParviz ParastuiMahtab NasirpourGolshifteh FarahaniThis is about a father and his daughter who has been injured from the mines from Iran-Iraq war.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsHediyeh TehraniTaraneh AlidoostiHamid FarrokhnezhadOn the last Wednesday before the spring solstice ushers in the Persian New Year, people set off fireworks following an ancient Zoroastrian tradition. Rouhi, spending her first day at a new job, finds herself in the midst of a different kind of fireworks -- a domestic dispute between her new boss and his wife.
- DirectorFereydoun JeyraniStarsHediyeh TehraniMohammad Reza ForutanKamand AmirsoleimaniHasti, a widowed nurse who has a daughter, marries a paranoid wealthy man.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsBahram RadanGolshifteh FarahaniMasoud RayeganNot being able to work because of the religious country's prejudice against music, a talented Santour player has to deal with poverty, addiction and the absence of his ex-wife.
- DirectorRasool Mollagholi PoorStarsGolshifteh FarahaniHosein YariJamshid HashempurWhat appears to be a grand love story turns sour when parents-to-be discover that their unborn child will likely be born with serious birth defects, as a result of the mother's exposure to chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. The father does not want to have a disabled child, but the mother insists on going through with the pregnancy.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsRogheyeh Chehreh-AzadMohamad Ali KeshavarzFarimah FarjamiHow a mother acts in the hardest parts of her, and her children's lives.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsBehrouz VossoughiPouri BaneaiNaser Malek MotieeA young man's drive to avenge for his sister and brother.
- DirectorHasan FathiStarsDariush ArjmandFatemeh GoudarziDaniel HolmesShirin leads a peaceful life in Iranian good middle-class, until the day her uncle Saeed asks her father to hire her in his travel agency. She finally decides to work. Her destiny changes, as she meets a young and attractive American, who goes to the agency to buy a plane ticket for Shiraz, the city of roses and poets.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsMozhdeh ShamsaiMajid MozaffariReza KianianWhile the post-revolution frenzy is at its peak in Iran, a woman attempts to help her secretive husband out of jail by settling his debts for him on her own.
- DirectorHana MakhmalbafA playwright Iran tries to confront a creative crisis while political clashes erupt during her country's 2009 election.
- DirectorDavood Mir-BagheriStarsAkbar AbdiDariush ArjmandParviz ParastuiA Iranian man (Akbar Abdi) stuck in Turkey, desperately wants to get a VISA to go to America. He starts dressing up as a woman in hopes of marrying an American man to get American citizenship, but he starts having doubts and...
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAkbar AbdiEzzatolah EntezamiFaramarz FardtombekianThe tenants of a rundown building on the outskirts of Tehran with no legal heir face major housing problems to deal with: major repairs and threat of eviction by greedy building manager who wants to own the building.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsAli DehkordiHoma RustaHans NoimanSaeed who is suffering from injuries that he received in the Iran-Iraq War, is sent to Germany for treatments. In Germany, he meets his sister and her German husband. Saeed and his sister who have not had any relations in many years try to re-establish the close relationship that they had long time ago.
- DirectorKamal TabriziStarsFatemah Motamed-AriaHossein SoleimaniJamshid EsmailkhaniMehdi is an orphan who lost his father in a car accident and his mother too passed away in giving birth to her second child. He thinks that Mrs. Fahimy who is a social worker is very look like his mother and insisting that she should be his mother but she is refusing.
- DirectorMohamad Ali FardinStarsMohamad Ali FardinAzar ShivaVictoria NerssisianA little girl with a blind mother, accidentally becomes friends with a famous and rich singer who decides to help her in her life.
- DirectorGhasem JafariStarsMohammad Reza GolzarElnaz ShakerdoostHamid GoudarziIt is a story of five different episodes and is about a valentine day present which rounds from hand to hand till finally.
- StarsAli NasirianMohamad Ali KeshavarzJamshid MashayekhiA corrupt, six-fingered detective is sent to recruit a retired assassin now living a secluded life as a calligrapher to assassinate a prominent government official known as Hezardastan who has stolen jewels from a member of the royal family. However, the calligrapher one-ups the detective and holds him as his prisoner and tortures him. The calligrapher begins to reflect upon his life gone by, and is forced to decide whether to take up this one last job.
- StarsShahab HosseiniNathalie MattiRoya TeymourianThis drama centers on a love story between an Iranian-Palestinian Muslim man and a French Jewish woman. Based upon a true story of Abdol Hussein Sardari, who worked at the Iranian embassy in Paris and apparently saved the lives of thousands of European Jews by forging Iranian passports for them.
- DirectorMohamad Reza HonarmandStarsEbrahim AbadiAkbar AbdiMehri Sadat AlaghaLeila and Bahram's mother wants to get a loan to buy a house for her children to live in. But the villain old lady sends her son Ganjo to steal the money. The children decide to sell their dolls to gather the money for buying a house again but Ganjo this time steals the dolls too. They go after Ganjo chasing him to his house but he trapped them. The dolls hurry to save the children and the police is coming too.
- StarsMehraneh MahintorabiRambod JavanAteneh Faghih NasiriA typical Iranian family living in Tehran during the 90's dealing with ordinary and extraordinary events of life in their own dramatic, romantic ways insisting on being and acting "green" in their daily struggles.
- DirectorDavood Mir-BagheriStarsAmiryal ArjmandDariush ArjmandVishka AsayeshThe story of life of Abdol-azim Alhasani and his migration to Iran during the tenth Abbasid caliph's reign.
- DirectorHossein TorabiStarsShapour BakhtiarMehdi BazarganMohammad BeheshtiA documentary on last days of Shah's regime, the event ensued after the arson of cinema Rex in Abadan, which lead to final victory of 1979 revolution.
- DirectorIraj GhaderiStarsFaramarz GharibianFatemeh GoudarziFathali OveisiAslan divorces his wife Mah Monir and marries Farangis. Barbod, Aslan's 11-year-old boy from Mah Monir, is very lonely. One day, Farangis calls Aslan with a scream. Aslan encounters the bloody body of his son at bathroom.
- DirectorMohamad Reza HonarmandStarsAfsaneh BayeganAkbar GhadamiMohammad Reza HaghgooKhosrow Paziresh who invented a magical washing powder goes to a washing powder factory to register his invention but.
- DirectorSyamak YasamiStarsMohamad Ali FardinArmais Vartani HovsepianFourouzanWhen two young poor men save a rich man who has decided to suicide and take care of him, he learns about the other part of the society and poor people's life.
- DirectorArash MoayerianStarsMahnaz AfsharHadis FoladvandMohammad Reza GolzarA young doctorate graduate and son of a religon-exploiting rich man, in the verge of leaving Iran for the United States is confronted with events and accidents, hindering while educating him of the other classes in Iranian society.
- DirectorMaziar MiriStarsParviz ParastuiDarine HamzeDavood Fathali BeigiRahman falls in love with a Christan woman from Lebanon. She becomes a Muslim before her second meeting with Rahman.
- StarsMehran ModiriSiamak AnsariFalamak JonidiSet in late 40s in Iran. When a politically exiled man (Ansari) meets strange rural people with weird actions and accents in a village called Barareh.
- DirectorIraj TahmasbStarsMorteza AhmadiAkbar DoodkarFarokhlagha HushmandA boy travels a long way from his village to Tehran to work as a showman in a kid's show; but finds it harder than he thought.
- DirectorKamal TabriziStarsParviz ParastuiMahmoud AziziMaziar LorestaniDuring the war with Iraq, an absurd set of events has an Iranian documentary cinematographer seemingly unable to get out of a dangerous project documenting the war.
- DirectorNicholas BoneStarsKevin Kelly
- StarsFariborz ArabniaReza RooygariNasrin MoghanlooMukhtar Thaqafi was a Shiite Muslim leader who sets up a rebellion movement in 686 A.D in the town of Kufa to avenge the martyrdom of Hussain (grandson of Islamic Prophet Muhammad).
- DirectorGranaz MoussaviStarsMarzieh VafamehrAmir CheginiAsha MehrabiMarzieh is a young female actress living in Tehran. The authorities ban her theatre work and, like all young people in Iran, she is forced to lead a secret life in order to express herself artistically. At an underground rave, she meets Iranian born Saman, now an Australian citizen, who offers her a way out of her country and the possibility of living without fear.