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Mehrdad Oskouei – Royahaye dame sobh AKA Starless Dreams (2016)
“Sir, when people wonder if God is a man or woman,no one thinks God could be a woman!” An unforgettable portrayal of innocence lost and found, STARLESS DREAMS plunges us into the lives of young...
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Bahram Beizai – Safar AKA The Journey (1972)
The story is about two poor boy’s search for their father through a “Journey” from downtown to uptown.Two hungry boys are forced to move through the events, people and unrealistic and risky places in...
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Ahmad Faruqi Qajar – Toloo-e jady AKA Dawn of the Capricorn (1964)
Quote:Dawn of the Capricorn, made by Ahmad Faroughi Kadjar (Qajar) in 1964, is a strange composition that looks at the stagnated situation of a country suspended between the old world and the modern...
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Shahram Mokri – Mahi va gorbeh AKA Fish & Cat (2013)
Quote:A group of students decides to camp on a desolate Caspian region which runs a competition of kite flying during the winter solstice. Not far from the camp, live Babak and Saeed, two grim cooks....
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Farzad Motamen – Shabhaye roshan AKA White Nights (2003)
A young university professor, who leads a quiet and reclusive life and fills his life with reading and teaching literature, meet a young girl who has altered the course of her life for the sake of a...
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Mehrdad Oskouei – Hamishe Baraye Azadi Dir Ast AKA It’s Always Late For...
The portrait of three teenage boys being held in a youth corrections centre in Teheran, It’s Always Late for Freedom depicts the distress of a generation sacrificed on the altar of Iran’s profound...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Mossafer AKA The traveler (1974) (HD)
Quote:A grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play....
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Mohammad Reza Aslani – Shatranj-e baad AKA The Chess Game of the WInd (1976)
SHATRANJ-E BAADFilm Notes Shatranj-e Baad might be one of the most emblematic films in the history of Iranian cinema, even though its visibility was limited to a disastrous preview at Tehran...
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Mohammad Rasoulof – Sheytan vojud nadarad (2020)
Working in defiance of a lifelong ban on filmmaking, dissident director Mohammad Rasoulof delivers a piercing drama about a subject he knows well: the costs of living under a repressive, brutal...
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Bahram Beizai – Ragbar AKA Downpour (1972)
A major figure in both pre- and post-revolutionary Iranian cinema, Bahram Beyza’i burst onto the scene with Downpour, his remarkable debut feature that won a Special Jury Prize at the First Tehran...
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Ehsan Khoshbakht – Filmfarsi (2019)
The popular cinema that flourished in Iran under the Pahlavi regime between 1953 and 1979, a period bracketed by a coup and a revolution, exists now largely on poor quality, illegal VHS tapes. From...
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Shahram Mokri – Mahi va gorbeh AKA Fish & Cat (2013)
Quote:A group of students decides to camp on a desolate Caspian region which runs a competition of kite flying during the winter solstice. Not far from the camp, live Babak and Saeed, two grim cooks....
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Nassereddin Shah, Actor-e Cinema AKA Once Upon a Time,...
In this meditation on the history of cinema, contemporary scenes blend with clips from the silent era. A cinematographer (Mehdi Hashemi) consults with the shah of Iran (Ezzatollah Entezami) in an...
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Rafi Pitts – Zemestan AKA It’s Winter (2006)
“When things are really crap, they will generally get much worse…” Mokhtar, unable to find work, leaves his wife and child to find employment in more distant lands. After seeing him onto a train we...
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Abbas Kiarostami – 10 on Ten (2004)
Quote:Documentary where Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami reflects on his own film-making techniques, drawing from his own films – and 2001’s Ten in particular. An IMDb reviewer wrote:This isn’t so...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Ten (2002)
Quote:A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers. Jonathan Romney for Screen Daily wrote:A defiantly no-frills...
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Babak Jalali – Frontier Blues (2009)
This is the debut feature film written and directed by the Iranian born Babak Jalali, presented as a world première in August 2009 at the 62nd Locarno International Film Festival. FRONTIER BLUES...
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Mojtaba Mirtahmasb & Jafar Panahi – In film nist AKA This Is Not a Film (2011)
The title of “This Is Not a Film” is itself a bitter joke on the illogic of totalitarian thinking. The acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been banned by the state from all filmmaking...
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Afsaneh Salari – The Silhouettes (2020)
An engineering student in Iran whose parents fled war-torn Afghanistan. As Afghans are only allowed to have manual-labor jobs in Iran, Taghi plans to move to the motherland he never knew. He faces...
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Kazem Mollaie – Goorkan AKA The Badger (2020)
“The Badger” is the story of a 40-year-old woman called Soodeh Sharifzadegan who faces a strange incident, right before her second marriage. 1.45GB | 1h 33m | 1280×720 | mkv...
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