Iran Movies

Rahmat travels to a host of islands in a vast salt pan in order to collect the inhabitant's tears for an unknown purpose. He is joined on his...

In this satirical comedy, which pokes fun at the oppressive treatment of journalists in Iran, Ehsan is an endlessly down-on-his-luck journalist...

Ghadir, a chemical plant worker, protesting against being unpaid for over a year, is arrested during a demonstration and imprisoned without trial....

Many years ago The Angelica which was carrying gold and silver from the Portuguese to the Arab Sheykhs had been sunk in the Persian Gulf. Ahmad Beyk...

Turkish migrant Husseyin spends his days in hypnotic routine as a “guest worker” in ‘70s West Berlin, living in a small, shared...

"Fanoos Khiyal", with a brief introduction from illustration in Persian literature to mezzanine in Iranian miniatures and folk paintings, introduces...

A Brechtian sketch of a relationship between a man and a woman in modern Iran, and also a parody of (or homage to) early Godard films.

In one of his daily wanderings, Ghasem Siah, a young jobless guy who leads a street life, runs into a young American tourist girl who is spending her...

Short film made with stop motion animation techniques.

On the eve of losing her family estate, actress Homa is blackmailed by a government agent with a compromising tape. Forced into a real-time video...

The renovation of a rambling family homestead becomes a metaphor for an unexpected assault on traditional family values when a newly married...

Salim Shaheen film from Afghanistan

"Curtain Reading" (pardeh khani) is a dying traditional Iranian art form and the antecedent of Ta'zieh. Traveling performers would mount murals...

Babak is more than just an unemployed engineer living with his parents in his 20s. He possesses a supernatural sense of hearing, so strong he can...

Finding himself in a house in the north of Iran by the Caspian Sea, the director picked up his handheld DV camera and began filming the seemingly...

A human being in search of his sexual identity finds himself in a continuous loop.

A lonely film critic watches a romance in which the woman who rejected him falls for a movie star. Lost between the screen and his own imagination,...

A woman is stuck in a world full of stains, spots, and repetitive thoughts.

The story follows the aftermath of the death of an old man, the body of whom is brought back to his home where he lived with only child, Sayeh...