On the day before their holiday trip to Dubai, a wife who believes her husband is unfaithful enlists the help of Roohi, a young women sent…
A young girl zealously wants to go to school and learn to read and write. Almost everywhere she is met with hostility or indifference. The only…
When one boy tears another boy's book, it is up to the two of them to decide how to handle it.
Mahmoud (Homayoun Ershadi) is a successful writer and intellectual who retreats to his family's rural estate in order to overcome a severe case of writer's block.…
During the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Scared, he sneaks into a truck that is leaving the area.…
The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells…
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war.…
In this documentary, Kiarostami asks a number of students about their school homework. The answers of some children shows the darker side of this method of…
A man is fired from his job. Having no more options, he decides to go find work abroad, leaving behind his wife and daughter. Months pass…
A child carrying a bread is going home but in the alley on his way to home, there is a frightening dog and he doesn't seem…
Nafas is a reporter who was born in Afghanistan, but fled with her family to Canada when she was a child. However, her sister wasn't so…
When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim…
Masht Hassan owns the only cow in a remote and desolate village. He treats the cow as his own child. When he is away, his cow…
A grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a…
For more than three decades, aging Iranian Mohamad Sardari (Zadour Bonyadi) has worked as a crossing guard at a desolate train station. Through the years, Mohamad…
After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.…
After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.
Negar and Ashkan, two young Iranian songwriters, decide to set up an underground band and look for other musicians to join them, but the authorities keep…
A forty year old ex-cop goes to Tehran to meet with the director Makmalbaf and act in his latest film. Twenty years ago the director had…
A group of middle-class friends travel from Tehran to spend the weekend at the seaside. Sepideh invites Elly, who is her daughter's teacher, to travel with…
When a young girl becomes lost in the hustle and bustle of Tehran, her journey turns into a dazzling exercise on the nature of film itself.…
For Hussein, a pizza delivery driver, the imbalance of the social system is thrown in his face wherever he turns. One day when his friend, Ali,…
After the earthquake of Guilan, the film director and his son, Puya, travel to the devastated area to search for the actors of the movie the…
In a hospital waiting room a woman learns her daughter, Solmaz Gholami, has just given birth. The ultrasound test had prepared the family for a boy.…