When Reza is jailed on drug charges under mysterious circumstances, his wife is forced to uproot the lives of their four children. Under Iran’s ...

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

My hero is the Joker who‘s going to fight back, and I still feel like my mind‘s in slow motion and I‘m going to have to fight ...

On January 8, 2020, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 went down as it was leaving Iranian air space. All 176 people on board were killed, ...

The first Muslim woman to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around the globe through her work as a human ...

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

Daily life at Iran’s second biggest zoo is interrupted when Mohsen, the head keeper, takes Maya, his 4 year old Bengal tiger, to perform in a ...

In 1982, when the Russian invasion of Afghanistan was at its peak, more than 1.5 million inhabitants had to move to Iran looking for a new life. ...

Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in western Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated ...

The film is a sobering, intimate and warm account of daily life in Kabul during the silent intervals between suicide bombings. The bombings that ...

“Finding Farideh” is about an Iranian girl named Farideh, who has been adopted by a Dutch couple 40 years ago, and now overcomes her ...

Touran Mirhadi (Khomarloo) is the founder of Farhad School, the Children’s Book Council, and the Encyclopedia for Young People. She was ...

In a traditional Iranian dating agency, the manager, Mrs. Sadri, and her female employees are dead set on finding their clients a husband.

The formation of a city named Tehran goes back to 200 years ago. Before that it was a small village resting between surrounding mountains. Many ...

A documentary on the lives of three sisters from the small town of Semirom in Iran who leave a life of poverty to become Wushu fighters, a form ...

A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project ...

A poetic portrayal of the life of a rice farmer, environmentalist, and social activist.

This documentary takes a look at Hayedeh Shirzadi and her husband’s attempt to put an end to the dumping and burial of urban garbage. Due ...

Anoosh and Arash are at the center of Tehran’s underground techno scene. Tired of hiding from the police and their stagnating career, they ...

An Iranian diplomat who miraculously survived Taliban’s raid on the Iranian consulate in Mazar E Sharif (Afghanistan) narrates his 19 days ...

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

In the course of living long months with a group of Iranian illegals in Athens, the director examines this radical choice of pursuing a better ...

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 shocking portrait of the world of a recently captured serial killer, who sees his killing of prostitutes as in accordance with Islamic ...

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

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

Young male students at a local Iranian school are asked about their feelings on homework.

A documentary film about a boys school in Iran. The film shows numerous, funny and moving interviews of many different young pupils of this ...

Short ethnographic documentray about Arba’een, a Shia Muslim religious observance