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- DirectorKamran ShirdelStarsSaeed RadVejestaJalal PishvaianAmir is a foul guy who has killed a man in Abadan, he returns to Tehran and continuing his misdeeds trying to convince his girlfriend Zarry to escape with him to the south of Iran.
- DirectorKamran ShirdelWaiting for Godot on Kish Island in the Persian Gulf, an island where decay and luxury life are neighbours. A man in his eighties believes that he is still in charge of a complex for alternative forms of energy which was abolished long ago. The pictures - an homage to the late and famous Iranian director Sohrab Shahid-Saless - contrast the comment speaking about the perspectives for a great future.
- DirectorNasser TaghvaiStarsMohammad BakhshiniaAlaeddin GhassemiGhavameddin GhassemiA documentary about the dress rehearsal of The Brave Hurr's Ta'Zieh which is written in the beginning of 19th century by Kashani.
- DirectorNasser Taghvai
- DirectorNasser TaghvaiThe events of two days of life of the pilgrims in Mashhad Ardalan city near Kashan. In first day the pilgrims arrive in the city to pilgrim the holy shrine there. In the second day the Ghali Shouyan tradition is taken place.
- DirectorParviz Kimiavi
- DirectorParviz Kimiavi
- DirectorParviz Kimiavi
- DirectorParviz Kimiavi
- DirectorParviz Kimiavi
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsKamshad Kooshan
- DirectorRakhshan BanietemadA loose follow-up to Our Times, Bani-Etemad's documentary short was made during the months before last year's controversial elections in Iran. Filming a diverse coalition of women's rights activists discussing their opinions on pressing contemporary issues, Bani-Etemad asked three of the four presidential candidates to view the footage for comment, with Mahmoud Ahmedinejad declining to participate. A number of the activists seen in the film were later arrested in the post-election protests.
- DirectorKhosrow SinaiStarsReza SaberiAhmad FakhrAnna Borkowska
- DirectorKhosrow SinaiStarsMehdi HashemiSoraya GhasemiGholamreza TabatabaiAmidst the turmoil of Tehran in 1978, engineer Mahmud only wants to provide security for his family. He is determined to ignore the fighting taking place on the streets outside and shelter the ones he loves from the violence. But when his wife takes in a young revolutionary escaping from the police, providing refuge for the man forces his family headlong into the world he wants to protect them from. Mahmud can no longer ignore the revolution, but can he find a way to keep his wife and children safe?
- DirectorHamid RahmanianThe fringes of Iranian society can be a lonely place, especially if you are a teenage girl with few resources to fall back on. Finding Home follows four girls striving to pull themselves out of the margins by attending a one-of-kind rehabilitation center in uptown Tehran. Forget about the Iran that you've seen before. With a virtually invisible camera, the girls of Finding Home take us on a never-before-seen tour of the underclass of Iran with their brave and defiant stories: Samira struggles to overcome forced drug addiction; Mitra harnesses abandonment into her creative writing; Sussan teeters on a dangerous ledge after years of sexual abuse; and Nazila burgeons out of her hatred with her blazing rap music. This groundbreaking documentary reflects a side of Iran few have access to or paid attention to: a society lost to its traditions with nothing meaningful to replace them and a group of courageous women working to instill a sense of empowerment and hope into the minds and lives of otherwise discarded teenage girls.
- DirectorSaman SalurStarsHamid HabibifarBehrooz JaliliMojtaba BitarafanThe tale of two lonely misfits struggling to survive in the asphalt jungle.
- DirectorMoslem MansouriStarsAli MatinHossain Sabzian
- DirectorMoslem Mansouri
- DirectorTanaz EshaghianInside Afghanistan's Badam Baugh Women's Prison, where half of the inmates are locked up for 'moral crimes.
- DirectorTanaz EshaghianAn intimate and unflinching look at life in Iran, seen through the lens of those living at its fringes, 'Be Like Others' is a provocative look at a generation of young Iranian men choosing to undergo sex change surgery.
- DirectorTanaz EshaghianSara NodjoumiStarsDavid Diaan
- DirectorMehrdad OskoueiSet in a tight-knit, extremely conservative island community off the Southern coast of Iran where all women wear burkas, this film begins as an investigation into the suicide of a woman named Samireh. Her husband callously says that while he cares about the lives of his kids, women's lives are cheap. However, the women Oskouei interviews - many of whom were married off at age 12 or 13 - stand up for themselves and discuss their difficult existences. Oskouei relies mostly on close-up or medium-shot interviews, and as usual, displays his gift for framing people dynamically in tight spaces.
- DirectorMehrdad OskoueiFollowing his harrowing documentary, It's Always Late for Freedom, director Mehrdad Oskouei continues his exploration of a male juvenile detention facility near Tehran. Last Days of Winter follows these young men in the days leading up to the Iranian New Year, as they take stock of their lives.