Amiro is a young boy who has lost his home during the war. Read More »
Tag Archives: Persian
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 »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »