مهمانی بزرگ شاه
Directed by Hassan Amini • 2016 • Iran
In 1971, the Shah of Iran, the self-proclaimed 'king of kings', celebrated 2,500 years of the Persian monarchy by throwing the greatest party in history. Money was no object - a lavish tent city, using 37km of silk, was erected in a specially...

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Directed by Caveh Zahedi • 2006 • USA
Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi takes DMT on camera.

دینگومارو
Directed by Kamran Heidari • 2013 • Iran
Since his Internet hit, “Bad Shans” (hard luck), Hamid Said has become one of the most famous black musicians in Iran. He’s traveling by motorbike across the province of Hormozgan, which is situated in the South of the country on the Persian Gulf...

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Directed by Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini • 1998 • Iran/UK
Divorce Iranian Style goes behind-the-scenes at a divorce court in Tehran, following three couples as they try to resolve their conflicts. Like a real-life forerunner to Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winner A Separation, the film offers...

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Directed by Caveh Zahedi, Greg Watkins • 1988 • USA
A mother and daughter disagree about whether to put their dying dog to sleep.

فریم های خالی
Directed by Haide Moradi • 2016 • Iran
Cinema is a dream or a reality? Can the most expressive language of the time be considered as a dream? Is the most attractive art of all time, with thousands of heartbroken lovers and mystics, a reality?

صورت خوانی
Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2012 • Iran
Curtain Reading (Pardeh khani) is a type of Iranian traditional religious stage play rooted in Iranian story-teller culture & painting. Its history goes back to Iran's pre-Islam era. This art form is now dying with very few Curtain Readers around...

چهره‌ها
Directed by Shahin Parhami • 2008 • Canada
Shahram Golchin is a professional film actor from pre-revolution Iran who was trapped between worlds in the prime of his career. Debilitated by a range of illnesses and a strong sense of exile, he is our window to the other characters of this fil...

فردوسی و مردم
Directed by Hossein Torabi • 1977 • Iran
A documentary about Ferdowsi, the great Persian poet of 9th century, the creator epic Shahnameh (the book of kings). The film examines the impacts of the poet and his masterpiece, almost one thousand years after its creation, on Iran and Iran...

جشن تکلیف
Directed by Firouzeh Khosrovani • 2014 • Iran
The hall is packed with chattering Iranian schoolgirls wearing lilac robes and white hijabs. An imam explains to them that at nine years old they have reached the “age of duty.” This, he says, is the moment at which puberty begins, bringing ...

بزم رزم
Directed by Vahid Hosseini • 2018 • Iran
Fight Feast is about the vicissitudinous story of Iranian music between 1979-1989, the years just after the revolution through the end of Iran-Iraq war. The narrative of restrictions and obstacles told by musicians, composers, and state authorities...

قضیه شکل اول، شکل دوم
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1979 • Iran
This banned and rarely seen pseudo-documentary by Kiarostami is a testimony to his seldom acknowledged political shrewdness and his objective, complex perspective on the tumultuous events of the late 70s in Iran, culminating in the ...

پنبه تا آتش
Directed by Bahram Azimpour • 2017 • Iran
Flax to Fire depicts the life and work of Aliasghar Hajibaba, an elite Iranian industrialist and entrepreneur. Originally trained as a quilt-maker in his youth, he manages to start an independent business in the midst of a tumultuous life. Wit...

برای آزادی
Directed by Hossein Torabi • 1979 • Iran
Pure “Direct Cinema”: Hossein Torabi films the events without knowing their outcome: Processions of mourning and jubilation, scenes after the fire in the “Cinema Rex” in Abadan, southern Iran, in which 377 viewers died; the famous interview with...

میدان جوانان سابق
Directed by Mina Akbari • 2019 • Iran
Journalist Mina Akbari’s FORMERLY YOUTH SQUARE opens with a photograph of a group of 70 journalists taken about 20 years ago in Javanan Square. Of those, only six continue to work in their profession, including the filmmaker. Many emigrated ...

صحنه‌ی تاریخ
Directed by Sahand Sarhaddi • 2019 • Iran/Sweden
An experimental film about narrations of two journal photos from Iran's revolution 1979.

آزادی در مِه
Directed by Nasser Saffarian • 2007 • Iran
This intriguing short portrays the lifestyle of a Spanish woman living in Washington D.C. as she protests the American occupation of Iraq. Residing in a tent directly outside of the White House, Conception Picciotto is a constant presence am...

طبرستانی‌ها
Directed by Mohsen Abdolvahab • 2017 • Iran
In 1983, amidst the hardships of post-revolutionary and war-torn Iran, a group of engineering classmates established a steel foundry near the city of Sari, in the North of Iran. Their main goal was to gain income for themselves and at the sa...

گاز آتش باد
Directed by Kamran Shirdel • 1986 • Iran
After the Revolution Shirdel continued to make commissioned films as an independent filmmaker. mostly industrials. He made two Oil Films for the Oil Ministry, "Gas, Fire, Wind" is one of them.

طرح گناوه
Directed by Kamran Shirdel • 1988 • Iran
A documentary about designing and executing the major project of laying four undersea pipelines connected to four oil terminals in persian gulf.

گلاب قمصر
Directed by Hossein Torabi • 1971 • Iran
A documentary about the village of Ghamsar, the historic hub of making rose water in Iran, depicting the traditions of making their famed perfume.

خرامان
Directed by Arash Eshaghi • 2019 • Iran
Gracefully tells the story of a drag queen who had been performing on stage for decades before the revolution and after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he has been banned from any kind of performance. He lives on a farm and spends most of his time farmi...

هرات
Directed by Sepideh Farsi • 2007 • Iran/France
Starting from Paris, a little girl accompanies her mother - the filmmaker herself - to go to Iran, thus joining her grand-father and starting on a journey to Afghanistan, a country often dreamt of, but never visited since three generations, sinc...

مانکن‌های قلعه حسن خان
Directed by Sam Kalantari • 2015 • Iran
HE tells the story of the birth and life of some mannequins. They are all created in the same way but their faith is not the same.