مصدق از نگاهی دیگر
Directed by Hoda Saber, Farhad Varahram • 2015 • Iran
Mossadegh, Another Viewpoint brings together nearly a dozen interviews, personally conducted by Saber in 2009-2010. Most of the interviewees were closely associated with Mossadegh during the last decade of his life, while he...

مادر زمین
Directed by Mahnaz Afzali • 2017 • Iran
This documentary takes a brief look at Hayedeh Shirzadi and her husband’s shared life, love and work and their attempt to put an end to the dumping and burial of urban garbage. Due to their hard work and ingenuity, 100% of the city of Kermanshah’s...

کمی بالاتر
Directed by Loghman Khaledi • 2011 • Iran
Shahriyar, a garbage collector, has a passion for literature and poetry. He writes imaginative stories to escape from his dull, prosaic life in Kermanshah, a city in Iran’s Kurdistan region. But his wife, his family, his neighborhood and all th...

مادرم بلوط
Directed by Mahmoud Rahmani • 2010 • Iran
In the mountains, we acquaint with a person called Asad. He can sing well. His house was flooded by holding back the water of Karoon-3 dam. Because of his interest in the mountains and the jungle, he can’t stay in the city for good, so he somet...

من نگهدار جمالی، وسترن می‌سازم
Directed by Kamran Heidari • 2012 • Iran
“My name is John Ford and I make Westerns” this is how John Ford introduced himself at the American Film Directors’ Association gathering. Negahdar Jamali, an Iranian from Shiraz introduced himself the same way when Kamran He...

خط باریک قرمز
Directed by Farzad Khoshdast • 2020 • Iran
In a bleak Iranian Juvenile Rehabilitation and Correction Centre, a group of teenage delinquents and juvenile defenders decide to put on a stage show that will allow them to leave the prison for a day. With the help of professional actors F...

ناسوت
Directed by Shahin Parhami • 1997 • Canada
A poetic meditation on the death of three Iranian refugees who committed suicide in Ottawa in the late 1990’s.
Evoking the power of memory and history, this film is about dispossession, exile and alienation caused by war and displacement.

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Directed by Beate Petersen • 2011 • Norway
In 1842 the 11-year-old heir to the Persian throne received a camera from Queen Victoria of England. In the following decades, he documented his life, revealing to the public eye what it was never supposed to see.
“Nasseredin Shah and his 84 Wives” ...

نسا
Directed by Loghman Khaledi • 2012 • Iran
Nessa is a young woman from Kermanshah who is fighting to progress in her acting and artistic career. Nessa's family prevents her from reaching her goal because of the conservative environment. The film in the cinema vérité style follows Nessa in her ...

قصه شب
Directed by Abbas Amini • 2008 • Iran
A short documentary by Abbas Amini investigates the Cinema Rex fire in Abadan on the 30th anniversary of that tragedy.

جایی برای فرشته‌ها نیست
Directed by Sam Kalantari • 2020 • Iran
The Iranian national women's inline hockey team prepare to compete in South Korea. Throughout the film, these women struggle with their greatest fears and become stronger as they begin to believe in themselves and rely on the skills ...

وا کَس چه
Directed by Kamran Heidari • 2019 • Iran
“None of your business ” is a documentary film regarding the life and death of Ebrahim Monsefi, mostly known as Ebram; a popular southern guitar player, singer and poet in Iran who was born 70 years ago in Bandar-Abbas and passed away 50 years af...

نوروز به وقت تهران
Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2015 • Iran
"Nowruz, Tehran's Time" is about Nowruz rituals in Tehran. While touring and watching the Nowruz rituals in Tehran, the film takes a look at the background of this ceremony in Tehran through conversations with Professor Abdullah Anvar, Ja...

نوروز تاجیکان
Directed by Mehdi Bemani • 2014 • Iran
The film shows the celebration of Norouz (The Iranian new year) in Persian-speaking Tajikistan today. Some of the persian traditional rites of Norouz, such as cleaning the house and cooking Samanoo is common in Tajikistan too.

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Directed by K-von Moezzi • 2015 • USA
Until recently, comedian K-von knew very little about his unique heritage but that's all about to change. Come along as he ditches the comforts of Hollywood to discover the meaning and traditions behind Nowruz (Persian New Year). Performing stand-up come...

شاهان و نقاشی‌ها
Directed by Sara Nodjoumi • 2019 • USA
Of Kings and Paintings is a history of Iran's extraordinary art from 1785 to 1925. The film offers an overview of Iran's most significant painters and paintings of this remarkable era and its continued legacy.

ساز مخالف
Directed by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb • 2004 • Iran
Off Beat is about young music lover—influenced by musical trends in the world, some of which are deemed harmful by officials in Iran—who have no place in the formal Iranian music scene and who play music in the quiet of their homes. Once I st...

روزگاری برای آزادی
Directed by Mehdi Asadi • 2009 • Iran
In 2009, on the 30th anniversary of the revolution, Mehdi Asadi decides to make a short documentary about a feature film by Hossein Torabi called “For Freedom”.

تنها صدا است که می ماند
Directed by Makez Rikweda, Sol Rikweda • 2019 • UK
Only Voice Remains tells the story of Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad whose confessional works and daring personal life broke barriers of sex and society - and in the process, redefined what it takes to be a great artist. ...

ننه دلاور ما (سیمین به روایت سیمین)
Directed by Bahman Farmanara • 2019 • Iran
Simin Behbahani, one of the greatest contemporary poet in Iran, started composing lyric poems at the age of fourteen and at the age of forty she was one of the most famous poets of Iran.
It is said that those poets who...

خونه ما
Directed by Sam Soleimani • 2020 • Iran
After the 1979 Islamic Revolution happened in Iran, Hossein Movafagh, a famous singer in Kocheh Bazari music (Popular music) at that time, who became jobless and then had to emigrate to Netherlands.
Now and over the years of his immigration, his son...

روزگار ما
Directed by Rakhshan Banietemad • 2001 • Iran
Rakhshan Banietemad decides to capture images of people involved in the presidential elections of 2001 in Iran. She follows some young cinema actors and artists, including her young daughter, who with lots of hopes and desires for future hav...

اعتراض وارد نیست
Directed by Farnaz Jourabchian, Mohammad Reza Jourabchian • 2016 • Iran/Canada
Over one million Afghans live as refugees in neighbouring Iran. For Ismael, Golagha, Kashmir and Nader, the flawed Iranian asylum laws leave them in legal limbo and under constant threat of deportation...

پارک مارک
Directed by Baktash Abtin • 2009 • Iran
"Mark" is a homeless drug addict who is living on the streets of Tehran, stealing from donation boxes and sleeping in the "Parks". He shares such an interesting and attractive account of himself from his past as a drug dealer, a husband, a father...