Iran Movies

A semi-autobiographical account of an incident in Makhmalbaf's life when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades...

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of...

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their...

The heroic deeds of the dolphin boy made him a legend among the sea creatures and the inhabitants of the island, but despite his fame, he feels...

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based...

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the...

A young man from Tehran, who has lost money in gambling, decides to commit suicide while traveling to Isfahan. An Isfahan man saves him. Both of...

Living in a house by the sea with his daughter, a former captain who has post-traumatic stress disorder leads a tough and secluded life.

Trapped caring for her aging parents in a remote village, an unmarried middle-aged woman hears her own stifled longing for freedom echo in the...

Eleven directors from eleven countries each contribute an eleven-minute short reflecting on the events of 11 September 2001: A village teacher in...

The film tells the story of an old man who is looking for the cricket-footed shoes he dreamed of having as a child. More complete information about...

After a confusing interaction in downtown Tehran, a married couple seems to have found their doppelgängers.

A young girl goes to the rooftop to find her cat and discovers a boy who is attempting suicide. She forces the boy to search for her cat with her in...

The revolution has taken place and the profession of Ebi and Vali is the antiques of the pre-revolutionary depression, but the door of the shrine...

Elaheh, a literature student, lost her father three years ago during the protests against Ali Khamenei's regime. Now she is piecing her life back...

A man and a woman are plunging ever deeper into the desert. Their mission is to burn the body of another man and deliver the ashes to his wife. But...

A disturbed girl has a horrible nightmare in which two muddy figures ask her to open a mysterious box. To get rid of that, she decides to kill...

Mahin lives alone in Tehran since her husband’s death and her daughter’s departure for Europe, until an afternoon tea with friends leads...

A solitary man earns his living by making the dead disappear. When he learns he has terminal pancreatic cancer, he embarks on one final journey,...

A bakery in Herat in Afghanistan. Twelve hours a day, seven days a week, a dozen employees and apprentices repeat the same gestures, while the camera...