Tag Archives: Persian

Kamran and Moluk, middle-aged siblings, live penniless in the family’s Tehran mansion, selling furniture to pay expenses. Their brother, ...

Wounded by the police, a thief looks up his old friend in order to leave the proceeds of his theft with him. Instead, he finds that his friend is ...

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

This new film from veteran Danish documentarian Eva Mulvad (The Good Life) offers a poignant portrait of a family of asylum seekers desperate to ...

Mina has decided to leave her older husband Morteza after ten years of marriage. Next Monday will be her divorce date, which means her first step ...

A woman suffers complications after having sex. Her partner takes her to the hospital, but getting help proves to be difficult. Release: Bishtar ...

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border ...

The movie revolves around the life of a tax collector who is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with problems at home, including the ...

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

The Traveler is a 1974 Iranian drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami that tells the story of Hassan Darabi, a troublesome, amoral 10-year-old ...

Film based on the famous Iranian novella by Sadegh Hedayat, considered one of the great works of modern Persian prose. A man who is perhaps ...

The first lady of a noble house has died and now there is conflict between the remainders for taking over her heritage. Release: Chess of the ...

Hamburg, mid 80s, Alex is a cabby. The sound is hard, pubs are dark and loud, people constantly argue about anything and everything, people smoke ...

“Kupal” is the story of a hunter and a taxidermist, called “Dr. Ahmad Kupal”. On the last day of the year, moments before ...

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the ...

Ali Hatami’s film on the life of Iranian wrestling champion Takhti remains unfinished. Another director is assigned by the I.R. ...

A man named Jalal publishes an unusual advertisement in one of Tehran’s morning papers to donate $10,000 to a needy person. The news ...

Mehrollah is a 14-year-old boy who is forced to find a job to support his family after his father dies. He travels to the southern parts of Iran, ...

In a small valley, riders pursue and kill a man. A horse thief, so his assassins claim. But for his ten year old son Issa, the disappearance of ...

Documentary Abbas Kiarostami directed in 1989 after realizing he was having difficulties assisting his son with his homework. Kiarostami ...