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Directed by Sepideh Farsi • 1999 • France
This film is an investigation into identity in exile, through Iranian exile at the end of the century. It is a bit like the story of all those who experience uprooting. Of all those who, one day, tried to build a house based on the memory of another ...

تینار
Directed by Mahdi Moniri • 2009 • Iran
A child in the southern forests of Babol has to protect his flock without any help. Desperately lonely, he endures harsh winters and physical hardships, while dreaming of a different future.

داشتن یا نداشتن
Directed by Niki Karimi • 2001 • Iran
To Have or Not to Have marks the directing debut of Niki Karimi, the best-known Iranian actress. Her documentary looks at the problems childless couples face in a society where infertility could seriously threaten a marriage.

کشتن گنجشک
Directed by Zohreh Soleimani • 2014 • USA
In Afghanistan, thousands of young women have been imprisoned for so-called moral crimes, including running away from unlawful forced marriages or marrying against a father's wishes. This is one woman’s story.

طرقه
Directed by Mohammad Hassan Damanzan • 2008 • Iran
Four Iranian country women from northern Khorasan, who play doetar and sing, encounter life's challenges. Although they face several social problems they have a common passion, to release their pain through music. Even though they suffer man...

دست به مهره
Directed by Vahid Hosseini • 2014 • Iran
A man called "Kourosh Hafezi" has been suffering from several kinds of cancer for many years. This documentary tells the story of his painful but hopeful life.

توران خانم
Directed by Rakhshan Banietemad, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb • 2018 • Iran
Touran Mirhadi (Khomarloo) is the founder of Farhad School, the Children's Book Council, and the Encyclopedia for Young People. She was also actively involved with close to 20 other institutions dealing with child develo...

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Directed by Caveh Zahedi • 2003 • USA
Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi takes hallucinogenic mushrooms with singer-songwriter Will Oldham.

راننده و روباه
Directed by Arash Lahooti • 2013 • Iran
Mahmoud Kiana Falavarjani is a truck driver and amateur filmmaker. His most well known films, which feature all-animal casts, include Wrestling Between Crow and Cat and The Raven and the Fox. After spending time in a psychiatric ward for mani...

تلویزیون ۵۷
Directed by Susan Bayani • 2011 • Iran
This documentary composed entirely of archived footage, tells the story of the Iranian Television Broadcast employees’ 99 days strike in reaction to the imposition of martial law during the 1978-79 Iranian revolution and the appointment of a Roya...

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Directed by Caveh Zahedi • 2008 • USA
An animated short about a film shoot that goes horribly wrong.

ناخوانده در تهران
Directed by Mina Keshavarz • 2011 • Iran
Mina, the director, is a girl from Shiraz who gets married in order to move to Tehran. Influenced by her own life, she decides to make a documentary about the girls nationwide who, like Azar, move to Tehran (the capital city) to start an ...

واگن پارس
Directed by Kamran Shirdel • 1987 • Iran
Shirdel made a fertile production of highly praised industrial and educational films. "Wagon Pars" is a fine example of his industrial documentaries.

کامیون آبی
Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2021 • Iran
This documentary is narrated by the driver of a lorry that carries water to the villages, and it deals with the story of Baluchestan people and the Iranian crocodile, and the competition and dangers on the way to find water in Baluchestan.

ما نیمی از جمعیت ایرانیم
Directed by Rakhshan Banietemad • 2009 • Iran
The Women Rights Activists of Iran, consisting of a vast spectrum with different points of view, pose their questions to the 10th presidential candidates of Iran, three of which discuss their opinions. Ahmadinejad, the preside...

بافندگان خیال
Directed by Sadegh Jafari • 2017 • Iran
‘Weavers of Imagination’ recounts the life of a number of visually-impaired people who weave rugs together and how the simple fact of working together fills them with a great sense of happiness.

برندگان
Directed by Omid Abdollahi • 2016 • Iran
This documentary is about immigration via winning United States Green Card Lottery. We go to two lucky Iranian winners, Shahriyar and Shahab, from two different generations in today’s Iran. Although the goal of both of them is immigration, their li...

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Directed by Reza Sayah • 2018 • Iran
‘With the Master’ is a short documentary on the life of Ali Akbar Sadeghi, one of Iran's leading surrealists.

ندامتگاه
Directed by Kamran Shirdel • 1965 • Iran
Women's Prison (Nedamatgah) (1965), is the first — and least subversive — film made by Kamran Shirdel under the auspices of Organization of The Iranian Women [sic]. Prisoners and their hardships (especially vis-à-vis their children) are juxtaposed...

قلعه
Directed by Kamran Shirdel • 1966 • Iran
The Women's Quarter (Qaleh, 1966) shows the life of prostitutes in Tehran's city brothels, an area known as Shahre Now. The film closely follows a number of women and communicates how the burden of social constraints led them to surrender in the face ...

افغان‌های جوان
Directed by Makez Rikweda, Sol Rikweda • 2010 • Afghanistan
Young Afghans follows three charismatic students as they navigate their final year of university in Kabul. As Farzana, Mauj and Sabawoon discuss their hopes and dreams for the future, we also catch a glimpse of Afghanistan...

زنان آفتاب: یک‌گاه نگاری درباره دیدن
Directed by Hamed Zolfaghari • 2020 • Iran/France
A workshop in a small desert village in South Central Iran is set up to teach villagers how to use a camera to make short videos. The remote village faces many issues including drought, poverty, and a frustrate...

درختان ایستاده می‌میرند
Directed by Hoda Siahtiri • 2016 • Iran/Belgium
After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, intellectuals and artists fled to Western countries, grappling with the challenges of exile. Delving into the memories and letters of Gholam Hosein Saedi, Trees Die Standing mirrors collecti...

من باید پرواز کنم
Directed by Ghazaleh Razavi • 2020 • Iran
The story of an 80-year-old Armenian man who once was a sailor, now lives alone in Tehran and is planning to marry a young 28-year-old girl.