شهربانو
Directed by Hamid Rahmanian • 2002 • Iran
Shahrbanoo is an unlikely story. The encounter of an American woman with a super-conservative Iranian family living in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Tehran was surely not an accident waiting to happen. The centerpiece of the story is Melissa...

قصه شهرزاد
Directed by Shahin Parhami • 2015 • Iran/Canada/Korea
Shahrzaad’s Tale is a story of a lost era and a forgotten star of pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema. Shahrzaad is the pseudonym of early 60s popular Iranian actor, also a published writer/poet and Iran's first woman filmmaker. She sa...

شرکت شیشه و گاز
Directed by Kamran Shirdel • 1990 • Iran
Along with the direction of his "Bonyad- Mostazafan Industries", Shirdel supervised the direction of short documentaries about each industry as well. "Shoga Company" is one of these short documentaries.

بوم سیمین
Directed by Kamran Shirdel • 1965 • Iran
"Silver Canvas", the first documentary made by Kamran Shirdel, deals with the art of silversmithing.

سر آلفرد
Directed by Hamid Rahmanian • 2001 • Iran
Mehran Karemi Nasseri, who now goes by the name "Sir Alfred", has been living in the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France. For the past twelve years he has been waiting for the document that would allow him to leave. Unlike the story that h...

شش قرن و شش سال
Directed by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb • 2014 • Iran
Film portrays the endeavors of a group of Iranian master musicians who are trying to locate, restore and record a repertoire of compositions attributed to Abd al-Qadir Maraghi, a prominent composer who lived six centuries ago and greatl...

جاده های برفی
Directed by Haide Moradi • 2018 • Iran
Ardabil is one of border villages in Iran that discrimination between boys and girls in the culture of families and education system of the country can be seen obviously. Among 1855 villages of this province only 224 villages have secondary sch...

بام های برفی
Directed by Haide Moradi • 2016 • Iran
In my land many women live in difficulty and loneliness. This film narrates glimpses of three of these women’s life.

سفر سهراب
Directed by Omid Abdollahi • 2016 • Iran
In 1969, a young man of 26 years of age returns to his country Iran after years of studying cinema and going through the hardship of living abroad as a university student. He does not want to become a filmmaker in the commercial and valueless cin...

تنهایی اول
Directed by Kamran Shirdel • 2002 • Iran
Waiting for Godot on Kish Island in the Persian Gulf, an island where decay and luxury life are neighbors. A man in his eighties believes that he is still in charge of a complex for alternative forms of energy which was abolished long ago. The p...

اوجِ موج
Directed by Nasser Saffarian • 2004 • Iran
The third part of the Forough Farrokhzad's trilogy, Summit of the Wave is an inspiring retrospective of Iranian director and poet Forough Farrokhzad. Dying tragically in 1967, at the tender age of 32, Farrokhzad had a short but illustrious caree...

تهران پایتخت ایران است
Directed by Kamran Shirdel • 1966 • Iran
Tehran Is the Capital of Iran (Tehran Paytakht Iran Ast, 1966-79) documents life in a deprived district in the south of Tehran. The images of destitution in Tehran’s poor areas is accompanied by a variety of spoken accounts: the offi...

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Directed by Sepideh Farsi • 2009 • Iran/France
Tehran, seen not as a megalopolis at the foot of volcanoes, but as a character. Tehran, not as something inhabited, but as a self-inhabited thing, moving, changing its face, its mood, its body. Tehran, strange, familiar, savage, welcoming. Tehra...

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Directed by Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy • 2015 • UK/USA
Tell Spring Not to Come This Year follows one unit of the Afghan National Army over the course of their first year of deployment in Helmand without NATO support. It is an intimate film about the human side of combat, told from a ...

هفده ساله ها
Directed by Aslan Shahebrahimi • 2014 • Iran
“The 17s” is the story of four urban teenagers in contemporary Iran in their own words.
In order to make a film about the lifestyle of these teens and see their point of views, which is quite different from the life of the previous generat...

آفر
Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2015 • Iran
"The Afar", while introducing the ancient and local dances of Torbat Jam and Torbatt Heydarieh, introduces the influential figure of Farooq Kiyani in preserving the local dances of the region, including the dance of Afar, which was a ritual of Nowruz in...

معرف
Directed by Azadi Moghadam • 2018 • Iran
This documentary is about the work of a few brokers in a marriage minded dating office. The manager, Mrs. Sadri, and her colleagues try to introduce people for marriage using self-taught and experience-oriented methods, while Sadri's two colleagues, F...

کنسرتی که اجرا نشد
Directed by Bahman Farmanara • 2010 • Iran
All the respected critics of Traditional Iranian Music, agree on one point and that is the fact that we will never see the like of PARVIZ YAHAGHI (SADIGHI PARSI) in the field of playing violin and composing.
The fact that PARVIZ YAHAGH...

امپراطور و ما
Directed by Nasser Saffarian • 2006 • Iran
A documentary centering the works of legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa from the point of view of Iranian film critics and filmmakers and three of Kurosawa's colleagues. This documentary explores Kurosawa's major films, discussing ...

ایمان
Directed by Hossein Torabi • 1970 • Iran
A documentary about traditions, pilgrimage and faith revolving around the tomb of the 7th Shi'a Imam – Imam Reza – with stunning images of inside the tomb complex.

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Directed by Caveh Zahedi • 2003 • USA
An aborted year-long video diary.

نماهایی که ناپدید شد
Directed by Hamid Jafari • 2010 • Iran
Inspired by the most important film derived from the magnificent work of three cameramen in the early days of the revolution, Hamid Jafari wants to know what happened to the remaining rushes of “The Pulse of History”.

تارهای ممنوعه
Directed by Hasan Noori • 2019 • Iran/Qatar/Afghanistan
Manual labourers during the day, rock musicians during the night, Akbar, Hakim, Mohammad and Soraya dream of performing their first rock concert in Afghanistan. They all come from Afghan refugee parents who fled to Iran in earl...

خانه شیشه‌ای
Directed by Hamid Rahmanian • 2008 • Iran
The fringes of Iranian society can be a lonely place, especially if you are a teenage girl with few resources to fall back on. The Glass House follows four girls striving to pull themselves out of the margins by attending a one-of-kind rehab...