باشگاه حیوانات
Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2018 • Iran
In the last decade, keeping special pets such as snakes, tarantulas, alligators, monkeys, and even scorpions has become very common in Iranian houses.
Unlike domestic pets such as dogs, these animals do not need to go outside the house and th...

جنبش آزادی زنان ایران - سال صفر
Directed by Claudine Mulard • 1979 • France
"Mouvement de Libération des Femmes Iraniennes, Année Zéro"
In 1979, Iranian Women invite the American feminist Kate Millett to celebrate March 8, the International Women's Day, in Tehran. On March 7, the religious leader...

اصفهان
Directed by Hossein Torabi • 1976 • Iran
City of Isfahan, the ancient Persian capital and its stunning architecture, arts and traditions are pictured in this documentary, while using the backdrop of then Iran in the last years of Shah and drive to modernize the country. Words and narration...

جبروت
Directed by Shahin Parhami • 2003 • Canada
Acclaimed Iranian-Canadian musician Kiya Tabassian leaves behind the slush, congestion and impersonal towering buildings of his home in Montreal to encounter the deep sources and inspirations of diasporic Persian music. His search takes us on a ric...

جنبل
Directed by Mina Bozorgmehr, Hadi Kamali Moghadam • 2017 • Iran
The rich Persian symbolic world is completely maxed out in an adventurous Iranian film about an artist's inner fantasy world. Fables, folklore, and Persian mythology meet in the adventurous Iranian docu-fiction 'Janbal', which t...

کمانچه
Directed by Bahman Kiarostami • 2004 • Iran
Kamancheh seeks to celebrate and preserve the unique and beautiful music of the kamancheh. It explores the lives, work, and aspirations of Iranian musicians who have devoted themselves to this distinctive and challenging instrument.

فرزندان خونیار
Directed by Arman Gholipour Dashtaki • 2021 • Iran
In a small village in Iran, four siblings, all over 70 and never married, live together. The villagers shun them, as they believe they are doomed, damned or both, leaving the brothers and sisters to live out their lives in solitude.

بانوی گل سرخ
Directed by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb • 2009 • Iran
“Lady of the Roses” is the name given to late “Shahindokht Sanati”, a lady who went to Lalehzaar region of Kerman before the Islamic revolution, and replaced poppies with roses and opium with rosewater, and took this so far as transforming...

لاهوت
Directed by Shahin Parhami • 1998 • Canada
Lahoot is an Islamic mythological term for the world beyond the corporeal existence. In a stylized, formalist illustration of dreams, memories and realities.

خنده در تاریکی
Directed by Mojgan Khaleghi • 2019 • Iran
Laugher in the Dark tracks the historical changes and developments in the theater arts in the Iranian City of Isfahan from the late 1900s through to today. By tracing the works of pioneers in the field, and by incorporating footage of and i...

مثل یک زن
Directed by Mojgan Ilanlou • 2016 • Iran
Faezeh Hahsemi, daughter of the Iran’s powerful former president, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani,​ is the most news making woman in the Islamic republic’s history. At first, she was only known as the daughter of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, but sh...

شبيه هیچکس
Directed by Puya Dalili • 2006 • Iran
Mehdi Azar Yazdi known as the father of children's literature in Iran was born in 1923 in Yazd. His most famous work "Good Stories for Good Children" has been one of Iran's bestselling children's book. it won the Unesco Prize in 1966 and the Royal ...

گمشده‌ها
Directed by • 2009 • Iran
Three decades after Kianoush Ayari made Newborns, a feature documentary about the early days of the revolution, Elham Hosseinzadeh joins Ayari to discuss this long-forgotten film.

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Directed by Abbas Rezaie • 2022 • Afghanistan
As a refugee, Homayoon Zarian has been in Afghanistan for eight years now and his future looks bleak. His situation and that of many others shows how severely the humanitarian organizations and mechanisms built after World War Second need revisio...

بنیان‌گذار محک
Directed by Mohsen Abdolvahab • 2017 • Iran
The life of Saideh Ghods changed completely when her two-year-old daughter Kiana was diagnosed with cancer. As she confronted her daughter’s suffering, she became aware of the suffering of so many impoverished families in hospital corrido...

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Directed by Caveh Zahedi • 1999 • USA
A filmmaker’s wife’s ambivalence about being filmed all day long on her birthday.

مشهد
Directed by Hossein Torabi • 1970 • Iran
A documentary about the holy city of Mashhad, highlighting the contrasts of faith and modernity under Shah in the Iran’s early 1970’s. Narrated by late poet Ahmad Shamloo.

مادرکشی
Directed by Komeil Sohani • 2015 • Iran
Matricide is an experimental documentary that will incorporate mythical fantasy into our environments harsh reality in order to illustrate the augmenting issues plaguing our planet.

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Directed by Sepideh Farsi • 2001 • Iran/France
An insight into today's Iran, through a simple device: following a group of firemen in Tehran. We shall see the country in its critical moments, when tongues untie, when gestures are more spontaneous, and doors open more easily.

مکرمه، خاطرات و رؤیاها
Directed by Ebrahim Mokhtari • 1999 • Iran
(The first part of a two-part documentary)

Mokarrameh's home overflows with vivid paintings, giving insight into the lives of Iranian women. Mokarrameh, a widow in a rural Iran, once owned a beloved cow. She had to seek grass on a...

ملف گند
Directed by Mahmoud Rahmani • 2009 • Iran
In this one sequence-plan documentary, Mohammad satirically talks about his childhood memories and his strong sixth sense (Molf-e Gand) during the Iran-Iraq war. With his beautiful power of expression, he turns his bittersweet memories into eye-ca...

ملا خدیجه و بچه‌ها
Directed by Ebrahim Mokhtari • 1996 • Iran
When the sun is high in the sky and summer unfolds in Mehriz, a village Southeast of Teheran, a group of children attends a summer school class by the elder Mrs. Khadijeh. This dedicated teacher manages to put timid children at ease, c...

منیر
Directed by Bahman Kiarostami • 2015 • Iran
This documentary looks at the life and work of Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, who first garnered attention in the 1970s when she pioneered contemporary forms of geometric mirror works. Monir created an artistic language that was inf...

روزهای خاکستری
Directed by Ehsan Noortaqani • 2021 • Iran
Saleheh (12) and Hananeh (9) live in a small Iranian village with their single mother and brother. When the pandemic closes their schools, they enjoy the break until the virus reaches their community and their mother, who works in healthca...