Abadan

Separated from but still emotionally attached to her husband, a woman searches desperately for her runaway father who is obsess...

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About Elly

A group of old college pals reunites for a weekend adventure on the sea, but compounding lies and deception quickly lead to cat...

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Afghanistan, The Lost Truth

An honest look at a war-ravaged land after the fall of the Taliban, going beyond the now-clichéd images of so many recent films...

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Angels Die in the Soil

An Iraqi-Kurdish girl faces war and redemption in Angels Die in the Soil (Fereshtegan Dar Khak Mimirand).

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Concert of Mysteries

Produced by Manijeh Hekmat, whose The Wall this short accompanies, is a glimpse inside one of the only truly free places in Ira...

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Crystal

A young woman is afflicted by a strange and rare disease that leads to painful crystals being produced in her eyelids and uteru...

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Day Break

In Iran, a murder conviction allows for the victim's family to choose capital punishment or forgiveness for the perpetrator. Th...

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Driving Lessons

According to Iranian law, Bahareh (Linda Kiani) must have her traditional, chauvinistic husband accompany her on driving lesson...

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Eddeaa

Eddeaa is a satirical revelation of the paradoxes and contradictions between tradition and modernity within Persian culture.

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Fireworks Wednesday

On the last Wednesday before the spring solstice ushers in the Persian New Year, people set off fireworks following an ancient ...

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Gilaneh

It is the Iranian New Year, 1988. Sadaam is bombing Tehran. And Gilaneh's family is being ripped apart by the war. Her son-in-l...

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Half Moon

Graying but determined, Mamo is a famed Kurdish musician who obtains permission to cross the Iranian border to give his first c...

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Head Wind

The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran does its best to restrict its citizens' access to information and media from the...

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Inside Out

There are probably few places in the world where it's more difficult to be a transexual than the Islamic Republic of Iran. Insi...

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Men at Work

This subtle and comic political allegory focuses on four middle-class guys who pile into their car for a ski weekend (already a...

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Moment

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Navel

This experimental "reality drama" depicts a few seemingly idle days in the lives of four men and a woman who share an apartment...

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Night of the Hunchback

This dark comedy, a key masterwork of Iranian cinema, has long remained unseen in the West. Adapted from a story in 1001 Nights...

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Once Upon a Time in Marrakech

In the autumn of 2005, 16 film students from NYC and Morocco converged on Marrakech as guests of the Tribeca Film Institute, Tr...

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Pilgrimage/Infidels

After Saddam's fall, hundreds of thousands of Iranians rushed to cross the suddenly unguarded border with Iraq to visit the hol...

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President Mir Qanbar

A 75-year old villager mounts his third campaign for Iran’s presidency, aided only by a disabled sidekick, to whom he’s natural...

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Retouch

Maryam's husband has an accident at home and, rather than saving him, she stops helping and watches him die.

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Roads of Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami has recently been exhibiting his black-and-white landscape photographs at venues around the world, and Roads o...

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Siah Bâzi: The Joy Makers

The alarming disappearance of humor from Iran's political discourse is traced when an improv troupe of political satirists, the...

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Sounds of Silence

In Iran, where half the population is under 30, Western music is banned, and the solo female voice has not been heard singing i...

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