Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-50 of 6,452
- A cafe manager, add the "Listener" item in cafe menu. The clients may order someone who can listen to their story. They will express themselves to a stranger.
- Iran, 2007, 77 min., In Dah be alaveh Chahar / 10 + 4, though, circumstances are different: Mania is fighting cancer. She has undergone surgery; she has lost her hair following chemotherapy and no longer wears the compulsory headscarf; and sometimes she is too weak to drive. So the camera follows her to record conversations with friends and family in different spaces, from the gondola she had famously used in her first feature to a hospital bed. Yet, while he body shows the effects of the disease, Akbari is as tough, charismatic, and argumentative as in her previous screen appearances her luminous presence all the more alluring and precious as it becomes a sign of how fragile life itself is. Her cinematic language has been expanded and refined from the rigorous explorations of 20 Fingers, to take into account the unexpected aspects of facing simultaneously death and survival, social stigma and sympathy. Treading an elegant line between documentary and fiction, Akbari takes a daring look at complex social situations that arise in the face of mortality and emerges with a new zest for life.
- Documentary where Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami reflects on his own film-making techniques, drawing from his own films - and Ten (2002) in particular.
- 103 days of 3 prisoners in prison...
- A government official travels across Iranian Kurdistan on a mission to stop 111 young women from committing suicide. An official selection of the prestigious, award-winning Global Lens Collection presented by the Global Film Initiative. (Farsi and Kurdish w. English subs.)
- A drama about Bemani, a reticent and monosyllabic 13-year-old boy. His parents are separated and he's being bullied at school. His world is falling apart. A gang whose leader is a lovely-looking girl is his safe haven. Or so it seems.
- 16 women, 16 stories, 16 fates in Teheran. Women between 20 and 80. 16 women finding their self conception. Snapshots. What are their thoughts, feelings, actions? What is it they expect from their lives? This film by Bahar Ebrahim is an appraisal of 16 women in every day situations, their ideas, visions and perceptions. 16 Iranian women and their views on the past, loneliness, men, fashion, love, freedom and self determination. Two of them remain silent, convincing the others to immerse in music and dance. Art in shape of a warming coat for the soul. "Life is a prison, my eyes an ocean of tears. Oh Life, sweet life, I have had enough of you, let me go."
- A school teacher from Tehran is preparing to attend a wedding in northern Iran. When her husband suddenly forbids her to go, she makes a choice that will place her on a painful path zig to atonement.
- This is a semi-documentary on life of Mohammad Reza Soleymani, a worker of Iran National company, and his campaigning in the first presidential election of Islamic republic of Iran, held in 1979.
- A film in several episodes with Bijan Daneshmand and Mania Akbari, exposing some of issues of men and women within confines of tradition and family life in Iran.
- Hadi is a young inventor who is expelled from school by one of his teachers for not understanding Hadi's abilities.
- Six years in the life of an adolescent crime gang that breaks into cars in the streets of Tehran.
- The story of a young boy Morteza who wants to accomplish his father's unfulfilled wish and faces many challenges in doing so.
- After murdering his entire family, a man marries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it with them too. But this time things go differently for all of them.
- Taha (played by Amin Tarakh) returns to the country after many years of war and captivity in the war. But he realizes that everything has changed, even his family has changed, he does not know that there is a truth behind these bitter facts.
- The three friends try to help Parvaneh, a young naive girl to face her uncle and his plans to kill her and take her fortune.
- Elham is about to marry a young rich guy. But the guy's mother tells her that she doesn't like her nose and before the marriage she should make a plastic surgery and fix it. Elham does the surgery and because of her new face even changes her birth certificate. But when she receives her new birth certificate she finds the name of another man in it as her husband. This puts her to face many funny adventures.
- Three actresses at different stages of their career. One from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, one popular star of today known throughout the country, and a young girl longing to attend a drama conservatory.
- The story is about a young couple who, at the beginning of their life, go back to financial trouble during a fraud and are forced to flee. In this concealer, the woman gets to know her pregnancy, and this brings him into the adventures .
- Mojtaba and Nasim, a young couple just had a baby. They reside in the south of Tehran, yet they are relatively happy. Mojtaba sells disposable plastic dishes and Nasim makes dolls at home. After Mojtaba's accident, strange events occurred in their life and Nasim realized that her husband was a drug trafficker. Nasim did all to save her family and turned into a trafficker in no time.
- An old lady goes down the memory lane. She narrates the story of her life mostly through the shoes of the people she remembers and the events of her country.
- Javid takes the responsibility for the methamphetamine found in his car to save his wife from going to prison. After his release, many people come forward to use him for their own good.
- The film follows the story of a man in Tehran, from 7 am to 5 pm, when he must do a job because it is his last chance.
- When the corrupted groom starts shooting in the wedding ceremony, guests try to run away. Aida and Davoud accidentally end up in a car that crashes a police car. Aida lies to the inspector that Davoud is her husband and that's where the story begins.
- A young couple needs money to cross the border. They decide to kidnap a movie star, and on a rainy day, they carry out their decision. In a house in the north of the country, he is imprisoned and told to call his mother and tell her to prepare fifty million tomans.
- In connection with the great operation of Jerusalem and the conquest of Khorramshahr; This film depicts the time and time of release.
- When meeting a psychologist reveals a secret life of a girl and her mother.
- The story of a woman Rana who is 7 months pregnant. She has lost her child once in her last pregnancy and is suspicious of her husband about that. With the insisting of her husband Mehrdad she goes to visit her family in north but this time too has an accident.
- A documentary about the legendary film maker Abbas Kiarostami. A photographer and long time friend of Kiarostami, Seyfolah Samadian has put together some footage of his moments with Kiarostami, his travel photography, film making etc.
- In Paris, the story of three women on the verge of mental collapse and suicide.
- In order to pay the university's tuition, Maryam starts working in a hotel in which she gets accused of having stolen an expensive watch.
- in southern Tehran among the bricks kilns live a group of Afghan refugees who have come to Iran illegally and work without permit. BaharNaz the afghan woman who just given birth to her newborn girl has to flee the region in order to save her child. she runs away from her husband, from rotten traditions and the burning heat of ignorance
- In the night of his wedding, Jafar falls in love with a dancer. He leaves the village for town to find the girl.
- Few old friends one night gather in the inherited house of one of them. But when new guests join them strange things begin to happen for them and the troubles begin.