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- An uproarious adaptation of a popular novel of the same name by Iraj Pezeshkzad. set in around the family compound in early 1940s Tehran. Shows characters that are marvelously rich in personality. The title character, so-called because of his constant invocation of the general, rules over a wonderfully complex extended family. A hilarious series which makes fun of just about everything.
- A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a television relay station in a remote region of Zahedan province, near the Afghanistan border. He has already hired Turkoman tribespeople for his film and selected his filming location. Meanwhile his wife, who is working on her Ph.D. dissertation about the Mongol invasion of Iran, attempts to dissuade him from accepting the assignment. One night, while working on his history of the cinema series, the director fantasizes a diagetic world that consists of clever juxtapositions of his different worlds: the history of cinema, the history of the mongol invasion, his own film idea and his imminent assignment to the desert.
- Bita is a young girl who lives with her parents. She loves her ill father very much but her mother is reckless about them. Bita is in love with an open minded young reporter Korush and wants to convince him to marry her, but he is refusing. When her father dies and Kurosh dumps her, the world is becoming dark for her and she is agreeing to a compulsory marriage. Accidentally she finds Korush but he rejects her again. This put her even in a more difficult situation.
- Darvish Khan a deaf and mute man who is a shepherd lives with his family in the desert. One day when sleeping in the desert he has a strange dream. When awake he finds a stone and carry it home and hangs it on a tree. Little by little he finds more stones carry them and hanging them on the trees until his garden of stones is becomes famous absorbing people from all around.
- Mahood Jowhari, (1945-1976) is a legend in Iranian Theater and Television. In his short artistic life, he did some excellent theatrical works and acted in a famous (now a classic) television series in 13 parts called "Deliran Tangestan" ( The valors of Tangestan ) about the local people in the south of Iran known as Tangestan, who fought against the British invaders in early 20th century under the leadership of Raiesali Delvary, who was played in the TV series by Mahmood Jowhari . Mahood was a unique character with a many talents and a very strong and beautiful voice ( one of the best in Iranian Theater.)
- The uncle of the young narrator enters his house unexpectedly. In order to offer him some refreshments, he goes to bring a bottle of wine. Through the crevice of the wall which happens to be there, he sees an ethereal girl offering a lotus flower to an old man who bursts into a hair-raising laughter. Surprisingly, this is exactly the picture he keeps drawing on pen cases as a calling. He is then jolted into realities. The thought of the old man gradually begins to loom over his life and sow the seed of anxiety. The narrator embarks on a journey in search of the ethereal girl and the old man. His journey, however, takes him into a study of history and myths. The narrator comes back and realizes that his uncle has left, leaving the door agape like the mouth of a dead man. Desperately he goes out to look for the ethereal girl. But upon returning he finds the girl sitting on the front stairs. The girl enters the house as if she knows the way and lies in bed. But she is dead. In the morning the narrator cuts the body into pieces and puts them in a trunk. Then an odds-and-ends man appears out if the blue to help him with burial. While digging the ground they find an ancient pottery which the old man takes as his wages. The pottery bears the same picture he keeps painting on his pen-cases. In the second section, the narrator finds himself bedridden in a room with two small windows to the outside world. Through the small window he can see a butcher and an odds-and-ends man. He recalls his past; his mother leaves him and goes to India and entrusts him to the care of a nanny. Later the narrator marries his cousin who does not love him and instead sleeps with the rabbles. He gradually wastes away and approaches death even more. The only communication in his small world is his nanny who evokes his feeling of hatred for old beliefs and superstitions. Feeling the sharp fangs of death on his neck, he decides to the take his wife with him. So he disguises himself as the odds-and-ends man and kills her. And he becomes the odds-and-ends man himself. In fact, the narrator becomes one of the rabbles whom he holds in great abhorrence.
- At the beginning of the 20th century, Henry de Monfreid, a famous French adventurer living in East Africa, decides to create a company to collect pearl oysters on the shores of the Red Sea.
- This documentary shows the Zaar tradition in Bandar Lengeh in south of Iran. It is kind of local dancing and singing to exorcist the Jinn from people who believe to be possessed by evil.
- The last days of Iranian novelist Sadegh Hedayat in Paris before he committed suicide in 1951.
- Major General Mogharrabi who was a colleague of the Soviet Intelligence Agency (KGB) and at the very moment of transmitting part of the information to the Russians, she falls into the trap of the Iranian intelligence agent (SAVAK).
- A short documentary which is about women and their professions in Iran's 60s society.
- A documentary which interviews the persons who write official letters for the illiterate people in front of the court yard and by this way make their lives.
- A short documentary about Tehran's taxi drivers and their problem with the new taxi meters.