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  • Drink Dealer

    ایاغچی
    Directed by Mohammad Hassan Damanzan • 2019 • Iran
    In Iran, where the production, sale, and possession of alcohol are met with severe penalties, a young man risks everything to escape poverty and provide a better life for his family. Secretly selling alcohol to save enough for a new home i...

  • Soulmate

    همنفس
    Directed by Mohammad Hassan Damanzan • 2018 • Iran
    Soulmate is a poignant documentary that follows the journey of a compassionate woman who dedicates her life to rescuing and caring for stray cats. Through her heartfelt narration, she recounts how a single cat’s arrival sparked her passion ...

  • Solayman Minassian, a Man with a Movie Camera

    سلیمان میناسیان، مردی با دوربین فیلمبرداری
    Directed by Parviz Jahed • 2006 •
    This film honors Solayman Minassian, a distinguished cinematographer in Iranian cinema. Beginning his career as a film technician and cameraman at Ebrahim Golestan's Studio Golestan in the 1960s, Minassian showcased his...

  • Abbas by Abbas

    عباس به روایت عباس
    Directed by Kamy Pakdel • 2019 • Iran
    Abbas was an international reporter. He went on the scene of the great events that have shaken the world from the 70s to our days.
    He worked for all the major news agencies. In other words, his work is at the heart of the history of news p...

  • One Thousand Women

    هزار زن
    Directed by Mojgan Ilanlou • 2022 • Iran
    Under international pressure, Iran had launched women's wrestling in a limited way. Iran was in crisis due to the ban on competitions with Israeli wrestlers. Conservatives came to power and suspended women's wrestling, but women never gave up.

  • Homework

    مشق شب
    Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1989 • Iran
    In Kiarostami's second documentary feature about education, the filmmaker himself asks the questions, interviewing a succession of invariably cute first- and second-graders about their home situations and the schoolwork they must do there. It emer...

  • First Graders

    اولی‌ها
    Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1984 • Iran
    Inspired by his work at Kanoon and his own sons' schooling, the first of Kiarostami's two documentary features about education observes a schoolyard full of chanting, playful boys but mainly transpires in the office of a supervisor who has to dea...

  • Fellow Citizen

    همشهری
    Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1983 • Iran
    Kiarostami's fascination with both Tehrani car culture and the uses of power in post-revolutionary society come together in this documentary about a traffic officer assigned to enforce driving restrictions in central Tehran (a locale near the dire...