Poverty

An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics,...

A young homeless girl supports herself as a surrogate mother for money. A human rights attorney tries to help her change her life, but ithe...

Somewhere in the desert, a little boy is plunged by force into an intimidating and completely foreign new world: the world of camel racing. Will the...

A textile factory worker struggles to keep his life together after his life is shrouded in controversy by his wife’s death. He is revered by...

A sensation when released in 1999 in Iran, Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent...

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of...

An Iranian couple from the city drive around a remote mountainous region. They hand out bags of money to poor villagers in return for them carrying...

A mother's courage, hardship, and love, in times of war. In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, Gilane escorts her pregnant daughter, Maygol, from the...

The Badger is the story of a 40-year-old woman called Soodeh Sharifzadegan who faces a strange incident, right before her second marriage.

Excited to attend Fareed's birthday party, Danny finds out why his mom is concerned about this friendship. Danny has to decide between satisfying his...

Seti loves music and singing, and she yearns for her voice to be heard. But in Iran, women are forbidden by law from performing in public, so the...

Arghavan is a woman close to middle age. When she and her husband take the pet dog to the vet, if someone has forced the animal to eat a lot of...