22-year-old Claudia is a single mother who lives with Marghe, her sixyear-old precocious daughter. When Claudia is kicked out of her house for ...

The President is the story of a dictator of an imaginary country in the Caucasus, who is forced to escape following a coup d’état, and begins a ...

An Iranian filmmaker and his son travel to Haifa, Israel to investigate a religion that originated a hundred and seventy years ago. Youth from all ...

A girl believing in God marries an atheist, who is consumed by doubt. They decide to spend their honeymoon in India…

In the midst of a mid-life crisis Jan, a 40 year old dancing teacher, decides to instigate a revolution against himself. His first act is to ...

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan ...

An anthology directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Testing Democracy) and Dariush Mehrjui (Dear Cousin is Lost)

Ghesse Haye Kish was originally produced as a six-episode omnibus film with finances from investors on the Island of Kish in the Persian Gulf, ...

Everyday, 10-year old Khorsid takes the bus to his work at an instrument maker’s shop and everyday something unexpected happens.

A semi-autobiographical account of Makhmalbaf’s experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. ...

An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh, while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, ...

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he ...

An Iranian actor named Akbar is trying to become a serious actor instead of the clown everyone considers him to be. However financial problems ...

The film follows a character known as The Cinematographer, who is looking for someone called Atieh (Future). As he calls out to her, he is ...

Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

A film about an anthropologist and his daughter during three periods: before, during, and after the Iranian Revolution. The daughter works in the ...

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 ...

Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he’s unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, ...

The movie consists of three episodes that explore the lives of poor and desperate in Iran. In episode one, a very poor couple with many crippled ...

Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In prison, he reconsiders his relationships with ...

Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

Five men escape to a remote island in order to fight the Devil. Four of them give into the temptations provided by the Devil, and die. However ...