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- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsFaramarz GharibianYousef KhodaparastBaran KosariWhen forced to divorce his wife by family and social pressure because her mother is a prostitute, Nazar (Khodaparast) works double shifts to pay back the loan he took out for his impulsive wedding and to pay some ongoing restitution to his sweet jilted bride, Reyhaneh (Kosari). When he falls behind in the payments he flees the police and ends up in the desert with an uncommunicative old man (Gharibian) who catches poisonous snakes for their venom. These two are forced to coexist in the desert, because Nazar is unwilling to return to the city and wants to catch snakes to make enough money to settle his debts. His verbose, chattering annoys the reticent old man until Nazar's life is endangered.
- DirectorAbdolreza KahaniStarsReza AttaranHabib RezaeiMahtab KeramatiA 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 very night.
- DirectorSafi YazdanianStarsAli MosaffaLeila HatamiAfter years living abroad, Farhad returns to Iran. Soon he travels to Rasht, his mother's hometown on the shores of the Caspian Sea. He will find Maryam, his long-lost love, and also a wooden toy boat has forgotten since he was a child.
- DirectorNasser TaghvaiStarsKhosro ShakibaiHediyeh TehraniJamshid Mashayekhi"Royaa", mother of two children, tries to follow her dream of becoming a writer, while her life and relationship with her shady architect husband "Jahaan", gets into some serious drama; which leads to question if everything is really what it seems to be?
- DirectorSaba KazemiStarsAban AskariAghil BahramiAfter the sanctions imposed by the US and Europe against Iran, Iranian families face numerous economic problems. MAAT is a doc-fiction about families from different towns decided to immigrate to the capital to solve their financial problems. They spend all their saving on buying a house in that utopia. After entering the house, they found out the flat has been sold to a few buyers. They are finding a way out for their problem when they find a large sum of money (US dollars, Credit cards and ...) in the flat. Now they face the ethical dilemma of taking the money or telling the truth to the police or solving the problem between themselves somehow.
- DirectorBabak BahrambeygiStarsReza BehbudiShabnam MoghadamiAlireza AraHaving returned to Iran after years, along with his brother, Shaheen pays a short visit to his hometown, and unwittingly becomes involved with one of his brother's business adventures...
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHomayoun ErshadiAbdolhosein BagheriAfshin Khorshid BakhtiariAn Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsFaramarz SadighiAmin TarokhAkbar AbdiA movie about the Iranian classical musicians in Ghajar era and their struggle to release their first Record which takes them on a journey to France.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsFarhad KheradmandPouya PayvarBehrouz AbediniA director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier.
- DirectorMohammad Ali TalebiStarsMasume EskandariJairan AbadzadeShirin BinaA small child and her elderly neighbor are having all kinds of small adventures in the streets of Tehran to get a sack of rice.
- DirectorMohammad Ali TalebiStarsShirin BinaSaeed GharaiHassan GhasemkhaniHassan's mother brings an old wrist watch and gives it to the teacher to give it to Hassan as a present so he be encouraged in front of his classmates. The wrist watch belongs to his passed away father and is very precious to the mother. Saeed who is Hassan's friend is envious of this beautiful present and put it in his briefcase but the teacher returns it to Hassan. Once again in the street Hassan gives his watch to Saeed and he shows it to his grandfather. The old man thinks that this is Saeed's and hides it in an old box and locks the box. Now Hassan and Saeed both are after a way to get the watch back.
- DirectorMajid MajidiStarsMohammad Amir NajiMaryam AkbariKamran DehghanWhen an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMohamad Ali KeshavarzFarhad KheradmandZarifeh ShivaA depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film And Life Goes On (1992).
- DirectorRafi PittsStarsMitra HajjarAli NicksaulatSaid OrkaniThe struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home.
- DirectorAli RafieStarsReza KianianRoya NonahaliGolshifteh FarahaniAfter 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant, run by four women, one of them a girl whom he once dated. Attieh, the girl, tries to convince him not to sell the place by, instead of telling him a story a day as Sheherazade, cooking him a delicious dish every day.
- DirectorMani HaghighiStarsAmir JadidiEhsan GoodarziHomayoun GhanizadehAn orange Chevrolet Impala drives across a cemetery towards an abandoned shipwreck in the middle of a desert landscape. It is the 22nd of January, 1965. The day before, the Iranian prime minister was shot dead in front of the parliament building.
- DirectorKhosrow SinaiStarsMehdi AhmadiGhazal SaremiHamid FarrokhnezhadAhlam who is studying medicine in the college is in love with Dr. Parviz and wants to marry him. But according to her tribe's laws and traditions she must marry her cousin Farhan. She decides to face her family and find a solution.
- DirectorMohammad Ali TalebiStarsHadi AlipourAmir JanfadaMajid AlipourA boy breaks a window at his school and sets out to fix it on his own during a storm.
- DirectorEhsan AbdipurStarsHadis Chehreh-PardazTumaj PoormoradGholamreza FarajzadehIt is a 3 episodic film about youth, immigration and the social problems of nowadays Iran.
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsSusan TaslimiParviz PoorhosseiniAdnan AfravianAn Iranian boy is lost after fleeing home for his life; his family has been killed during the Iran-Iraq war. He's saved and trained by a middle-aged woman.
- DirectorAli HashemiStarsNazanin BayatiAli GhasemiHengameh GhazianiAfter a two-month trip, Mahrokh, young daughter of Anousheh family, returns home to her wealthy family mansion in the northern Tehran. She says she has a surprise for her loving mother and father. They find out she is getting married but to whom? She introduces the future husband the very next day but this introduction begins a chain reaction among her loving family.
- DirectorAmir Hossein TorabiStarsShahab HosseiniSareh BayatGhazal NazarNegar and Amir Ali are going to immigrate, but at the very last moment, they face a critical situation: their son, Bardiya, goes missing. Now it is time to unfold all the family secrets.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsSaeed KangaraniEzzatolah EntezamiFourouzanAli and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness. However since they have no money, Ali starts to work for Dr. Sameri who deals in blood.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsBehrouz VossoughiJamshid MashayekhiFakhri KhorvashDesiderium lyrically charts the hapless loves of three brothers: Majid, the young handicapped brother with a deformed head who falls in love with Aghdas, a prostitute hired by his eldest brother Habib to entertain him, not knowing the truth about her profession. Karim, the middle brother is so infatuated with a quail that he almost completely ignores his wife and her emotions. Habib himself is in love with Foroogh, a tailor lady who lives with them, while his sense of responsibility about Majid keeps him from requiting her affections.
- StarsAli NasirianMohamad Ali KeshavarzJamshid MashayekhiA corrupt, six-fingered detective is sent to recruit a retired assassin now living a secluded life as a calligrapher to assassinate a prominent government official known as Hezardastan who has stolen jewels from a member of the royal family. However, the calligrapher one-ups the detective and holds him as his prisoner and tortures him. The calligrapher begins to reflect upon his life gone by, and is forced to decide whether to take up this one last job.
- DirectorKourosh AtaeeAzadeh MoussaviStarsEline Farideh Koning"Farideh" an Iranian girl who has been adopted by a Dutch couple 40 years ago, travels to her motherland Iran for the first time to meet families who claim to be her real family, and to find out about her Iranian Identity and culture...
- DirectorAlireza MotamediStarsAlireza MotamediSahar DolatshahiSetareh PesyaniReza is a divorced guy who is trying to adopt to his new life after divorce while he finds a new romance.
- DirectorMohammad KartStarsJavad EzatiTannaz TabatabaeiAmir AghaeeA film of a woman swimming in a pool is distributed through the internet. Now her husband and her brother are after finding the one who is responsible for that and taking revenge on him.
- DirectorManouchehr HadiStarsAnahita Ne'matiHamid Reza PegahYekta NaserYasaman has been living with her mother Leila since birth. Leila has never let her see her father. When Yasaman gets brain death in an accident, Leila has one week time to get consent from her ex-husband for a vital issue.
- DirectorBehnam BehzadiStarsSahar DolatshahiAli MosaffaAlireza AghakhaniWith fascinating insights into everyday life in Tehran, the film portrays the 'inversion" of a woman, and her mutiny against male domination.
- DirectorNima JavidiStarsNavid MohammadzadehParinaz IzadyarSetareh PesyaniA prison is about to be evacuated to make room for an airport expansion project. Major Jahed and his officers are busy transferring all inmates to the new facility, but one inmate is missing.
- DirectorMohammad Hossein MahdavianStarsPayman MaadiMina SadatiMinoo SharifiQader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in western Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by the Saddam regime. On June 28th, 1987 Iraqi air fighters dropped mustard gas bombs on the city.
- DirectorVahid MousaianStarsHojjatollah AlipourZeinab DehghanFatemeh EslamiBased on a true story about Taliban in Afghanistan and how they tried to destroy their National film archive and closing the movie houses.
- DirectorEbrahim MokhtariStarsSaeed PoursamimiMehdi AhmadiMaryam MoghadamThe story of a documentary filmmaker who wants to make a film about the dangers facing the growth of Saffron in Iran.
- DirectorAlireza AminiStarsAhmad MehranfarJamshid HashempurMohsen TanabandehA man seeks to collect an affidavit in order to die in peace.