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The Key AKA Kelid (1987) Ebrahim Forouzesh, Mahnaz Ansarian, Abbas Jafari, Amir Mohammad Pourhassan
Calamity by four-year old might be another title for this tense, humorous drama. Read More »
The Runner AKA Davandeh (1984) Amir Naderi, Madjid Niroumand, Abbas Nazeri, Musa Torkizadeh
Amiro is a young boy who has lost his home during the war. Read More »
Boycott AKA Baykot (1986) Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mohammad Kasebi, Majid Majidi, Esmat Makhmalbaf
A young guy Valeh is arrested by the security during Shah’s reign in Iran. Read More »
Time of Love AKA Nobat e Asheghi (1995) Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Shiva Gered, Abdurrahman Palay, Menderes Samancilar
Part one: A brown-haired man finds out that his wife cheats on him with a blonde-haired man. Read More »
The Willow Tree AKA Beed-e majnoon (2005) Majid Majidi, Parviz Parastui, Roya Taymourian, Afarin Obeisi
Blind since childhood, Youssef has a devoted wife, loving daughter, and successful university career, but his affliction fills him with secret torment. Read More »
The Cow AKA Gaav (1969) Dariush Mehrjui, Ezzatolah Entezami, Mahin Shahabi, Ali Nassirian
Masht Hassan owns the only cow in a remote and desolate village. He treats the cow as his own child. Read More »
The Chess of the Wind AKA Shatranj-e baad (1976) Mohammad Reza Aslani, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Shahram Golchin, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz
The first lady of a noble house has died and now there is conflict between the remainders for taking over her inheritance. Read More »
Waiting AKA Entezar (1974) Amir Naderi, Zohreh Ghahremani, Hasan Heidari, Farzaneh Yousefi
One of Naderi’s most beautiful films, a kind of magical realist parable that follows a boy’s daily chore Read More »
The Pear Tree AKA Derakhte Golabi (1998) Dariush Mehrjui, Homayoun Ershadi, Golshifteh Farahani, Mohammad Reza Shaban-Noori
A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit. Read More »
A Simple Event AKA Yek Etefagh sadeh (1974) Sohrab Shahid Saless, Hedayatollah Navid, Hibibollah Safarian, Ane Mohammad Tarikhi
The story of a ten years old Iranian schoolboy living with his mother and his father in Northern coasts of Iran. Read More »
The Cycle AKA Dayereh mina (1978) Dariush Mehrjui, Saeed Kangarani, Ezzatolah Entezami, Fourouzan
Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali’s father can be treated for his sickness. Read More »
The Father AKA Pedar (1996) Majid Majidi, Hossein Abedini, Mohammad Kasebi, Parivash Nazarieh
Mehrollah is a 14-year-old boy who is forced to find a job to support his family after his father dies. Read More »
Divorce Iranian Style (1998) Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini
A documentary about real divorce cases in Iran’s tribunals. Read More »
The Color of Paradise AKA Rang-e khoda (1999) Majid Majidi, Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi
Mohammad, a boy at Tehran’s institute for the blind, waits for his dad to pick him up for summer vacation. Read More »