Mehrollah is a 14-year-old boy who is forced to find a job to support his family after his father dies. Read More »
Tag Archives: Persian
In This World (2002) Michael Winterbottom, Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah, Imran Paracha
In February 2002 in the Shamshatoo Refugee Camp in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan 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 »
It’s Winter AKA Zemestan (2006) Rafi Pitts, Mitra Hajjar, Ali Nicksaulat, Said Orkani
A man is fired from his job. Having no more options, he decides to go find work abroad, leaving behind his wife and daughter. Read More »
The Cyclist AKA Bicycleran (1987) Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mahshid Afsharzadeh, Firouz Kiani, Samira Makhmalbaf
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 does not pay enough. Read More »
Crimson Gold AKA Talaye sorkh (2003) Jafar Panahi, Hossain Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Azita Rayeji
For Hussein, a pizza delivery driver, the imbalance of the social system is thrown in his face wherever he turns. Read More »
Bashu, the Little Stranger AKA Bashu, gharibeye koochak (1989) Bahram Beizai, Susan Taslimi, Parviz Poorhosseini, Adnan Afravian
During the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Read More »
Downpour AKA Ragbar (1972) Bahram Beizai, Parviz Fanizadeh, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Jamshid Layegh
A well educated and humble teacher arrives in a new city and at a new job in the pre-revolutionary Iran. Read More »
The Silence AKA Sokout (1998) Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Tahmineh Normatova, Nadereh Abdelahyeva, Goibibi Ziadolahyeva
Because of his special gift in identifying objects by the sounds they make Read More »
A Few Days Later… AKA Chand rooz ba’d… (2006) Niki Karimi, Behrang Alavi, Ehsan Amani, Ali-Reza Anoushfar
The story is about a woman Shahrzad who is being a while that should make an important decision. Read More »
Tales AKA Ghesse-ha (2014) Rakhshan Banietemad, Habib Rezaei, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Mehraveh Sharifinia
A series of seven interconnected vignettes about different people dealing with their everyday problems in modern day Iran. Read More »
Travellers AKA Mosaferan (1992) Bahram Beizai, Mozhdeh Shamsai, Homa Rusta, Jamileh Sheikhi
A young woman’s wedding becomes a ritual of mourning when her sister and family die in an auto accident on the way to the wedding. Read More »
Prince Ehtejab (1974) Bahman Farmanara, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Fakhri Khorvash, Valiyollah Shirandami
Prince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, is suffering from tuberculosis, which he knows is fatal. Read More »
The Blind Owl (1975) Kiumars Derambakhsh, Parviz Fanizadeh, Farshid Farshood, Novin Ghiasi
The uncle of the young narrator enters his house unexpectedly. Read More »