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- DirectorMerian C. CooperErnest B. SchoedsackStarsMerian C. CooperErnest B. SchoedsackMarguerite HarrisonThe struggles of a hardscrabble Iranian nomadic tribe as they journey through bleak country to reach the grasslands that will save their livestock.
- DirectorArdeshir IraniStarsRoohangiz Sami-NejadAbdolhossein SepentaSohrab PooriThe movie is about Golnar, a young teahouse girl who was kidnapped as a child and taken to Lorestan with a clan of bandits living among the Lors. The leader of the thieves, Gholi Khan, is beginning to look at her with interest now she is a grown woman. At the teahouse, she meets a young man called Jafar who has been sent to Lorestan by the Iranian government to deal with the problem of banditry in the area. They fall in love, and plan to escape together. Gholi Khan catches on to their plans and beats up Jafar. Jafar rejects Khan's offer to join the bandits, so he is kidnapped and imprisoned. Golnar helps him escape and the couple attempt to flee. Pursued by the bandits, Jafar and Golnar are nearly captured, but Jafar kills several bandits, including Gholi Khan himself. Fearing revenge from the remaining gang, the couple escape to India, living in Bombay to find security from the lawlessness of Iran at the time. They later return to their homeland when they learn that a new government has brought law and order back to the country.
- DirectorOvanes OhanianStarsHabibollah MoradAsia GhostantinZema OhanianHaji Agha is a traditional man who holds a hostile view of the motion pictures. Unbeknownst to him, his daughter and his son-in-law, Parviz, both are getting trained for acting. Their director is desperately looking for a subject, and Parviz suggest that they follow Haji Agha and clandestinely shoot him. Director likes the idea. Poori, Haji Agha's servant, who is also a member of the acting school snatches Haji Agha's watch. Haji Agha runs after him and the director shoots the following comic and surreal events of this chase...
- DirectorKamran Shirdel
- DirectorKamran ShirdelIt's a short documentary about prostitutes zone in Tehran which called "Shahre no" before Iran's revolution on 1979. based on interviews with it's inhabitants
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsSima Mobarak-ShahiShayesteh IraniAyda SadeqiThe struggle of women in a country that excludes them from entering stadiums.
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsMaryiam Palvin AlmaniNargess MamizadehMojgan FaramarziVarious women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
- DirectorKhosrow SinaiStarsDavoud RashidiShahla Mir BakhtiarEsmail Mohammadithe movie is about a Savak agent who come to a village for escaping from revolutionaries punishment. Afterwards he comes mad and killed himself when he hallucinatly think to kill someone else.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsReza Arham SadrEzzatolah EntezamiJahangir ForouharJafar Khan, the son of Haj Akbar, returns from America. When his father sees his unconventional appearance he realizes he will need to use fire and water to make Jafar look presentable. The father's efforts are unsuccessful because the government gives Jafar room to put his ideas into practice. Jafar becomes an agent for making Jafarabad, which has been renamed as Newjef, into an industrial city and a space where the residents can be put to work implementing Jafar's programs making his ideal society. When Haj Akbar is unable to bring Jafar in line and learns he has married a Americaan girl, he has a heart attack and on Jafar's advice is sent an asylum instead of a hospital. However the psychologist decides to look after him at home. In his father's absence Jafar Khan implements his programs. With help from the psychologist and the hospital doctor Haj Akbar regains his health and musters opposition to Jafar. After Jafar sets the people of the village against each other, the country drops the goal of being like America.
- DirectorMohammad Reza AslaniStarsFakhri KhorvashMohamad Ali KeshavarzAkbar ZanjanpourThe first lady of a noble house has died and now there is conflict between the remainders for taking over her inheritance.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsMohammad Reza ForutanBahram RadanPoulad KimiayiThe story of four soldiers who on a Friday go to the city with their commander. But this Friday is different and brings many troubles for them which changes them forever.
- DirectorAfshin HashemiStarsAfshin HashemiShabnam MoghadamiAysan HadadBased on Neil Simon's Goodbye Girl it is a romantic story Nasim who is from Abadan and Shabnam a widow who lives with her girl. When they both rent the same house they have to deal with each other until find a solution.
- DirectorMehdi Fard GhaderiStarsAmirali DanaeiBahareh Kian AfsharTina PakravanThe morning after a wedding ceremony the groom disappears, not seen since the night before. The bride, the groom's mother, the groom's sister, and his lover, who came to the wedding uninvited, are looking for the reason for his disappearance. The next day, the women begin blaming each other as their relationships are put to the test.
- DirectorMarva NabiliStarsFlora ShabavizA young woman in pre-revolution Iran is caught between the traditional values of her small village and her own yearnings for independence and individuality. Her persistent refusal of marriage proposals coupled with her unseemly removal of her hood causes her family to seek the help of an exorcist, convinced she must be possessed by evil spirits.
- DirectorSudabeh MortezaiStarsMohsen MahmudiMaryamMehri RamezaniA lonesome middle-aged bachelor, a divorced single mother, and a jovial young mullah are the protagonists of this intimate account of gender relations in Iran. Their stories revolve around the institution of temporary marriage, also called lust-marriage, a Shia practice that allows a man and a woman to legally marry for a fixed period of time ranging from one hour to 99 years. Religiously sanctified prostitution or a loophole for couples to have a relationship within the rigid Islamic laws? Religious dogma meets macho sentimentality meets female realities. A relentlessly honest, eye-opening, and sometimes funny account of Islamic sexual and gender politics.
- DirectorGhasem JafariStarsSaeed RadMitre CoutounOuldouz MansoorBehrooz, a US based int'l reporter goes to the Mecca pilgrimage instead of his writer friend, Ala, & decides to finish the incomplete 8th chapter of his friend's novel, "Like a Butterfly", there & then.
- DirectorMajid MajidiStarsIshaan KhattarMalavika MohananGoutam GhoseA hedonistic teenager in Mumbai is busted for dealing drugs and goes to his estranged sister for help, but complications land her in jail.
- DirectorKamal TabriziStarsMilad KeymaramMina SadatiShahrokh ForoutanianMehran and Mina are a happy couple but face a problem when Mina joins the dissident armed group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). Mehran who is a reporter starts suspecting her when a chemical bomb is dropped over the place where she is studying.