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A look at the formation of the career of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.

As Western forces withdraw, Afghanistan's youngest female mayor braves mortal danger to lead a fight for education for the next generation of Afghans.

This film is a window, opened through a miraculous encounter with Fatma Hassona. Offering glimpses of the ongoing massacre of the Palestinians. She...

After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defence against a rapist. For a pardon, she would...

Three interwoven stories of loneliness and isolation that centre around Janan, a woman from Afghanistan who travels to the UK for artificial...

The dream of an old man to go to the sea depends on Mr. K's opinion.

The story of Masoud, who is trying to emigrate to Europe to make a better life for himself, his mother and his fiancé. After embarking on a...

The fight for power in an isolated village. Two families have been enemies for so long they cannot even remember why. The only hope for peace between...

Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the...

The architect entrusts his daughter, Lida, and his son, Taher, to an engineer before his death. The engineer goes to Ahvaz and takes Lida with him to...

A group of students travel to a remote region to participate in a kite-flying event. Next to their camp by the lakeside, they find a restaurant with...

A psychologically traumatized war photographer is locked in a desperate struggle to protect her secrets and escape her inevitable return to the...

Ebrahim leaves his family and tries out his luck in Teheran. But in this urban jungle where everything's for sale and anything can be bought, dreams...

In a drab, anonymous gray school governed by a strict authoritarian regime, an apparently unremarkable day is turned on its head following a...

Bahram Beyzai's poetic imagining of the circumstances that led to the death of Yazdgerd III, the last of the Sassanid kings of Iran. His death in...

Ali gets a job and, by dint of dedication and patience, achieves a significant promotion and ends up becoming the manager of the company, as well as...

Majedi Lala, a man worried about both his and his son's bachelorhood, sets out to find suitable wives for them. Along with his family, he visits Mama...

Two Buddies want to kill themselves...

Pegah talks about Gholam, a man who’s not like her father, mother, uncles, or aunts, even though he’s always present at family...