پیکان
Directed by Kamran Shirdel • 1969 • Iran
A Short industrial documentary about the Paykan automobile assembly plant using no words.

دبی مروارید خلیج فارس
Directed by Kamran Shirdel • 1975 • Iran
In the early 1970s, Shirdel travelled around the Persian Gulf making documentaries about the new states emerging there. In the just-formed Emirates, he befriended Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and the film features footage of...

باغ ایرانی
Directed by Bahman Kiarostami • 2004 • Iran
Persian Garden, gives a behind-the-scenes look at the largest and most ambitious art exhibition in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Curator Faryar Javaherian invited over thirty renowned Iranian artists to respond to a theme that is pa...

زیارت
Directed by Bahman Kiarostami • 2004 • Iran
Despite the threat of mines, assassination, and death by dehydration and starvation determined Shiite Muslims as many as 3,000 a day, have been pouring across the Iran-Iraq border since the fall of the Iraqi government. They risk their lives for o...

چنارستان
Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2014 • Iran
The 17km Vali Asr street with 60,000 plane trees connects the south of Tehran to the North. Afarideh's film portrays past hundred years of modern Tehran by looking at the longest street in the Middle East as a manifestation and remembrance of socia...

صفر تا سکو
Directed by Sahar Mosayebi • 2021 • Iran
A Rocky-esque tale of determination and grit, Platform follows of three Iranian sisters as they compete to become international champions of Wushu, a Chinese martial art. The sisters thrilling underdog story explores not only their dedicated tra...

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Directed by Anneta Papathanassiou • 2014 • Greece
In Afghanistan, women deciding to be actors make a dangerous choice. Banned under Taliban rule (1994-2001), Afghan theater is experiencing a comeback with many women at the forefront. But with powerful forces of Islamic fundamentalism, a resu...

شاعران زندگی
Directed by Shirin Barghnavard • 2017 • Iran
The Parsi family - including their two sons, who have stayed to farm with their parents - has instituted innovations in rice production. They promote sustainable farming and refrain from using chemical pesticides and fertilizers. In a regi...

سفید ناب
Directed by Farnaz Tabrizi, Pouria Nouri • 2021 • Iran
Pure White explores the professional life of Parviz Fanizadeh, Iranian actor of the 60s and 70s cinema and theatre, through archival footage of his works and referring to his fellow artists.

پازلی‌ها
Directed by Mehdi Ganji • 2018 • Iran
"Puzzleys" is the name of a four-member group of IT students who, in spite of suitable job opportunities and the opposition expressed by their families, want to start up their own business. Other than their education and determination, all they have ...

قلیچ
Directed by Pouria Nouri • 2020 • Iran
Vahid Qelich, the former coach & goalkeeper of popular Iranian Football Club; Persepolis, was, in effect, ousted from football pitches after his golden era.
He experienced hard days and over time, football fans forgot the honors he brought for his home...

رادیوگرافی یک خانواده
Directed by Firouzeh Khosrovani • 2020 • Norway/Iran/Switzerland
“Mother married a photo of Father,” says director Firouzeh Khosrovani in the opening of this deeply personal documentary. She’s not speaking metaphorically though. Her mother Tayi literally married a portrait o...

بزک
Directed by Shiva Sanjari • 2019 • Iran
Marriage and being wanted by men are still a significant issue in Iranian patriarchal
society. The meaning of beauty and its criteria is dramatically transformed in the past 40
years with mandatory hijab in the Islamic Revolution.

Masoumeh, a single 3...

پیرپسر
Directed by Mehdi Bagheri • 2011 • Iran
This film is about the director himself who is 30 years old and still living with his parents. It is his brother’s wedding and since he is not on a speaking terms with his father, he doesn’t attend the reception. He tells his story while trying to re...

اهالی خیابان یکطرفه
Directed by Mehdi Bagheri • 2015 • Iran
Residents of One Way Street is a documentary about the lives and memories of six residents of one street in Tehran: The current ‘Si-ye Tir’ or the former ‘Qavam-o-Saltaneh’ Street, located in District 12 of Tehran. This street is situate...

میعاد با مکرمه
Directed by Ebrahim Mokhtari • 2010 • Iran
(The second 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 long a...

آداب بهاری
Directed by Ali Asghar Agahbanaei • 1982 • Iran
An experimental documentary that takes world-building to an entirely new level, Rites of Spring showcases fragments of Iran’s history before, during, and after the Revolution of 1979. It begins with scenes of daily life, working-class peo...

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Directed by Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini • 2001 • Iran/UK
Runaway Follows the stories of five young girls who arrive at a refuge in Iran’s capital city Tehran, having run away from abusive or neglectful families. Some are in despair, others are simply mischievous; but somehow they must ...

سامان
Directed by Sohrab Kavir • 2021 • Iran
This film documents Saman’s final attempt to convince his father, an army lieutenant, to get him treatment in America and new development that changes their entire family forever.

اسکورپیو
Directed by Faride Saremi, Omid Hashemlou • 2010 • Iran
In 1971 three young musicians set out to perform the euphoric rock’n roll and latin hits of their time on the stages of Tehran. Bahram Amin Salmasi (bass guitar), Baram Saidi (guitar) and Eini Keivanshokooh (drums), along with Eric ...

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Directed by Munizae Jahangir • 2003 • Pakistan
SEARCH FOR FREEDOM traces the dramatic social and political history of Afghanistan from the 1920s to the present through the stories of four remarkable women: Princess Shafiqa Saroj, sister of the beloved progressive King Amanullah (1919-1929); ...

جستجو: یک
Directed by Amir Naderi • 1980 • Iran
Amir Naderi's first feature documentary in which he searches for those who went missing after the massacre of ‘Black Friday’ on September 8, 1978.

ثانیه‌های سربی
Directed by Seyed Reza Razavi • 2013 • Iran
While conducting research for her new book about the events of 8 September 1978, when dozens of demonstrators were killed by the Shah’s army, Iranian novelist Narges Abyar comes across a documentary which includes an interview with a cine...

فردا می‌بینمت الینا
Directed by Rakhshan Banietemad • 2011 • Iran
My daughter, Baran's childhood in the 1980s coincided with the Iran-Iraq war and the bombardment of large Iranian cities such as Tehran. Terrifying sleepless nights were followed by the next morning’s involvement in daily life whic...