The film is a retrospective of Simin Behbahani’s life and unique poetry. Largely in her own words, using family and period photos, interviews with noted poets and critics, this portrait traces her poetic development from her family roots, modern poetry movement, and reinventing Ghazal to explore the social, political, cultural, and moral issues of an oppressive and corrupt Iranian society.
Sanam [8] + Wavelength [5] + Demonstration [7] + The Shadow [15] + Lines of Exile [7] + Closed Circuit [11] + The Goodbye [4] + Imaginary Scene [2] + Iran on the Road [4] + House [2] + To Be [10] + Stars in the Rain [10] + The Letter [3] + Zaghchi [20] + The Phoenix [14] + The Kids [11] = 104 minutes
A fallen from grace old man decides to change things in his life.
Some people wander around the world, others stay put and perform the extraordinary. ‘Verdant Whispers’ explores the efforts of a man to turn the part of the desert where he lives into fertile land. He believes that the wind keeps his sails spread out to take him to safe harbors in his own land.
On a very dark night, a driver gives a ride to a passenger, not knowing this stranger will change his destiny.
What happens that makes us devil?
At the height of the demonstrations during the Abadan shipyard workers' strike, Amir’s body is found in a canal in circumstances that leave much open to doubt. Ebrahim, Amir's brother must now not only look after his aging mother, but also Salva, his brother's young and beautiful widow, for whom he has unexpressed feelings. The employer's lawyer offers the family cash if they agree not to sue the shipyard, but Ebrahim's mother and the striking workers are against any deal. Ebrahim, not wanting to be trapped between the two contending parties, cannot decide, but Salva has other ideas.
A personal narrative documentary that follows its creator, Sohrab Kavir, as battling survivor’s guilt after the deaths of three of his brothers, he returns to Iran from the UK. Once there he embarks upon an epic quest to form a virtual football team made up of young sufferers of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, the same disease that took his brothers.
Psycho [14] + Sign [10] + Pygmalion Infection [5] + A Goodbye [5] + Passport [12] + Crisis [2] + Permission [1] + Goodbye Earth [3] + One in Two People [7] + Capriccio [4] + A Rainy Day [3] + Tehran Recyclers [6] + Daya [6] + Earth is Home [8] + White Clad [19] = 105 minutes
After leaking a video of her class in a woman-only swimming pool, Parvaneh is brutally murdered by her husband, Hashem, who seeks a way to redeem his reputation and dignity as the godfather in the neighborhood. Hashem’s brother, Hojat, embarks on a journey into the labyrinths of the underground in Tehran to find out who is responsible for this dirty game. Once wrongfully accused of smuggling drugs, he returns to the world of crime to trace his brother’s rivals…
Amir is recently deported from France. Unemployed and idle, he is obliged to stay at his father’s house. For the sake of his father, he gets involved in a horrifying crime which consequently leads him towards the foreign currencies black market. But he knows that the mystery should be unfolded in the last act…
Right before Soodeh’s second marriage, her 11-year-old son, Matiar is kidnapped. After considerable effort, Soodeh is forced to ask for the ransom money from her ex-husband. After Matiar’s release, Soodeh comes to a sudden realization that who was behind the kidnapping plot.
Sea and fishes are important for all the children of the world.