Nahid

Nahid 2015

6.30

A young divorcee living with her son in a small northern city of Iran, wants to marry the man she has fallen in love with. According to the current rules, the father has the custody of children; however, her ex-husband has granted her that right on the condition that she doesn’t remarry. Struggling to keep both of her beloved ones, she has to think about the third option: Temporary Marriage (Sighe). However, this will get her into a predicament, as despite its being legal, Sighe is not well-received by the society at all. Would temporary marriage be a good solution for her?

2015

Snow

Snow 2008

5.33

The daily hardships of a war-scarred Bosnian village, where all that remains are widows and orphans, are painstakingly documented in this first feature from director Aida Begic. Snow offers insight about the psychological aftereffects of the 1992-95 civil war from a distinctively female point of view without showing any of the brutality or carnage.

2008

There Are Things You Don't Know

There Are Things You Don't Know 2010

7.20

The film tells the story of a reclusive taxi driver in Tehran in the days leading up to an earthquake. He has chosen to distance himself from society and to be passive so as not to be hurt. Finally one of his passengers gives him enough motivation to act and bring about a change in his life.

2010

The Father

The Father 1999

7.20

Mehrollah is a 14-year-old boy who is forced to find a job to support his family after his father dies. He travels to the southern parts of Iran, looking for work. Upon his return to his hometown, he notices certain changes in his family.

1999

Atlan

Atlan 2015

7.00

In Turkmen language, Atlan means "mount a horse and depart". Horse is the most important element in the life of Iranian Turkmen. That's why courses are some of the most significant social events in their land, Turkmen Sahara. Turkmen Sahara is a region in north eastern Iran and is homeland to Iranian Turkmen. Ali is a Turkman with his life, like many of his peers', intertwined with courses. Now his wedding depends on his success in courses. This documentary film is about Iranian horses.

2015

Tehran Has No More Pomegrenates!

Tehran Has No More Pomegrenates! 2007

6.30

This is the story of Tehran from the Qajar time (middle of 19th century) to today. Tehran has become a metropolis from a small village, now a developed city with many social problems.

2007

Far Be It From You!

Far Be It From You! 1970

1

a documentary about the conflicts between the citizens of Tehran

1970

The New Wave

The New Wave 2016

1

A Documentary about New Wave movement in Iranian cinema.

2016

Rainy Seasons

Rainy Seasons 2010

7.20

Sina, a sixteen years old teenager from today's Tehranian middle class, experiences a new life on the verge of his parents' divorce. Added to his very real sense of having been abandoned is the threat of a local thug who believes that Sina owes him a considerable sum of money. Things become even more complicated when Sina, taking advantage of his parents' constant absence, allows an older girl, Nahid, to temporarily move in with him. Sina finds himself with the prospect of making choices that threaten his body and soul.

2010

Plane Grove

Plane Grove 2014

1

Valiasr Street, seventeen kilometers long, connects the south of Tehran to the north and the Alborz mountain range. When this street was built, the parties decorated it with more than 60,000 plane saplings. But today, only about eight thousand plane trees are standing on this street.

2014

Blue Tooth

Blue Tooth 2007

5.00

Hadith is a member of the high school swimming team and has come to Tehran to attend a national tournament. The night at the dormitory, the team leader called on the disciplinary committee, and it turns out that the hadith movie has been broadcast through Bluetooth when changing clothes in a dressing room, something that will change the fate of this girl forever.

2007

Dead End

Dead End 2008

7.00

Documentary about Babak Bayat (Persian: بابک بیات)(13 June 1946 – 26 November 2006). Babak Bayat was an Iranian songwriter and film score composer. He was repeatedly nominated for the Crystal Simorgh award in the field of the soundtrack at the Fajr Film Festival and received this award twice in 1991 and 1997.

2008

Son of Man

Son of Man 2022

1

In Iran, gender-affirming surgery is legal, though it carries with it great stigma, and is usually performed so that a gay couple may lead a heteronormal life. In this one-of-a-kind film, shot in secret in Iran, a father and husband finds his fragile world endangered when a man from his past appears claiming to be his daughter's true father. He never knew his wife was pregnant when she sought a divorce, and now she's nowhere to be seen.

2022

Put My Mattress In The Room

Put My Mattress In The Room 2015

1

The eldest son of the family is dead. After the funeral ceremony, the guests have left the house and the family members are talking to each other.

2015

Migrants

Migrants 2021

7.00

Fifteen migrants begin their journeys. This is what migration is. You leave your place of birth, but you are, as if, still there. You go somewhere else, and you feel yourself physically somewhere else but have left behind your authentic self.

2021

Beloved

Beloved 2018

6.00

This documentary follows the life of an 80-year-old mother named Firouzeh who is fond of her isolated lifestyle in nature with her cows. The film shows her kind and loving character and demonstrates her bravery and strength tackling the hardship of life in the Alborz mountains without the modern comforts of technology. She believes happiness lies in the simplicities of life.

2018

Sohrab, A Journey

Sohrab, A Journey 2016

1

A different film about Sohrab Shahidsaless, the late Iranian filmmaker. In this lengthy documentary, video images and unseen shots from Sohrab Shahid Salate have been used.

2016

Glimmer

Glimmer 2011

1

An old optician is going to close his optometry shop due to his weak eyesight. But there is still a client who has not referred to receive her spectacles yet.

2011

The Wind that Shakes the Sugar Canes

The Wind that Shakes the Sugar Canes 2022

1

Younes’s father is arrested when the sugar factory boss accuses him of setting fire to the fields. When 11-year-old Younes, preparing himself for a football trial, finds out that at the night of the accident, his father, as a leading figure in the strikes and the protests, was busy at a meeting with the other workers, talking about their demands, he tries to bring the witnesses to the court. It is the starting point of his journey: a journey of forgetting his love for football and taking the pressure off his family….

2022