Iran Movies

An actor and actress are brought together during a casting for a mainstream film. They don’t get the roles, so they decide to make their own...

In Montreal, Iranian man Nima helps the diaspora to fulfil their vows with unexpected consequences.

A semi-autobiographical account of an incident in Makhmalbaf's life when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades...

A transsexual teenage boy named Abraham was murdered and burned in a cave out of a small village. Police are after his religious father who is...

A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back...

A man enters a bar, sits and observes, not speaking. Gradually, the silent presence of the stranger disturbs the other customers.

This is a film about the making of Salaam Cinema by Mohsen Makhmalbaf in Tehran and it’s eventual screening in Cannes Film Festival. Viewers...

Salim Shaheen film from Afghanistan

Once we begin to consider certain people, items, or memories as our own, we lay ourselves open to the threat that we’ll lose them. Once the...

After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.

A man and a woman are plunging ever deeper into the desert. Their mission is to burn the body of another man and deliver the ashes to his wife. But...

Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.

On September 22, 1998, the Iranian poet Hamid Hajizadeh and his nine-year-old son Karun, whose name symbolically refers to Iran's longest river, were...

An Iranian journalist couple wants to move to America to escape the difficulties of their country. The woman receives her visa but her husband...

About the difficult situation of pets inside of Iran.

A single mother takes a stand against her son’s school and Iran’s educational system when they accuse her boy of sexual abuse. She...

A six-year-old’s speech disorder is unexpectedly investigated when his mother takes him for a routine pre-school health screening.

Golrokh, an Iranian author, struggles to settle her husband's debts caused by a business partner who left him to bear the consequences.

Bahram, a censored director, embarks on a Vespa trip with producer Sadaf to clandestinely screen his film in Iran, challenging the system.

The Rainbow Commune disappears sooner than you think, before you can show it to anyone else ...