Tag Archives: Persian

A corrupted police officer insists on bribing a broke man, so he has to go to everybody and do everything in order to be able to pay him in the ...

Javid takes the responsibility for the methamphetamine found in his car to save his wife from going to prison. After his release, many people ...

When Arezoo and Amir-Hossein can’t conceive a child together, Arezoo’s friend Tahareh is willing to act as a surrogate. But ...

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

A Tehran taxi driver becomes the impromptu protector of a desperate young pregnant woman after he rushes her to hospital, in this delicate, ...

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

A mother and wife is on the brink of an attack. Hengameh Tahareh Ghaziani lives with her husband, her son and daughter in a middle class ...

Several people try to take advantage of a little girl’s innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with. Release: ...

In an act of vengeance, a young man randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The ...

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 ...

In Iran, since the 1979 Islamic revolution, women are no longer allowed to sing in public as soloists – at least in front of men. Defying ...

Reza, residing in the wilderness with his wife and son, lives a retired life and devotes himself to freshwater fish farming. A private company ...

On a cold winter’s night in modern Tehran, a couple of young lovers run into a serious problem, and they have just a few hours to come up with a ...

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 ...

A documentary about Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami first aired on the French television series Cinema de Notre Temps. Release: Abbas ...

Nahal is around thirty and in her fourth month of pregnancy. During a routine check-up she learns that her baby has died and she now faces a ...

Reza, the veteran worker of a print house whose sight is adversely affected because of his job, loses his mother. Finding the gloom reigning over ...

A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an ...

Amiro is a young boy who has lost his home during the war. He spends his days by working odd jobs, until he realizes that the only way that he ...

Just one day from completing their military training, three conscripts desert their camp and escape into the frozen wilderness of Northern Iran. ...