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- DirectorManuchehr MosayyeriStarsHediyeh TehraniMohammad Reza SharifiniaGohar KheirandishDonya is a young, attractive single woman who has just returned to Tehran from abroad. She seeks the help of Hadji Reza Enayat, the conservative and stern owner of a real estate agency, to look for a house. We sense that she has an ulterior motive but that motive will not surface until the end of the movie. She puts on the charm and Hadji falls head over heels in love with her and proposes marriage despite being already married to a loving and pious wife. Awkward and funny situations develop as he tries to keep his affair secret from his family.
- 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.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsEzzatolah EntezamiMahin ShahabiAli NasirianAn old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsFaramarz GharibianTaraneh AlidoostiBabak AnsariIn Islamic Iran, how much is a woman worth in comparison with a man, and who pays the difference? This film is tale of vengeance, labyrinthine judicial procedure & the concept of "blood money."
- DirectorKambuzia PartoviStarsFereshteh Sadre OrafaiyParviz ParastuiNikos Papadopoulos"Cafe Transit" depicts an independent-minded widow who bucks tradition to run her dead husband's truck stop café.
- DirectorRasool Mollagholi PoorStarsGolshifteh FarahaniHosein YariJamshid HashempurWhat appears to be a grand love story turns sour when parents-to-be discover that their unborn child will likely be born with serious birth defects, as a result of the mother's exposure to chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. The father does not want to have a disabled child, but the mother insists on going through with the pregnancy.
- DirectorHomayoon Ass'adianStarsNegar JavaherianBehrouz ShoaybiJavad EzatiA Tehran mullah-in-training struggles to take care of his ailing wife and their children in this profoundly moving melodrama. A film of near-universal appeal, it puts a human face on Iran's Muslim clergy with its unusual tale of a man forced by hardship to become a better husband and father. Seyed Reza has just moved with his family to Tehran so he can study the Koran, and he relies on his lovely wife Zahra to look after their two young children and weave the intricate rugs that earn them a living. But one evening Zahra collapses and is taken to the hospital, where she's diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Scarcely able to process the tragedy, Seyed is left to cook, change diapers, walk his daughter to school and take his toddler son with him to his classes, where peers and elders treat him with scorn. But Seyed eventually learns to cope, his prayers and devotional studies taking on deeper meaning as he attends to the hard nightly work of rug weaving, getting through with a heavy assist from friends, neighbors and kind strangers.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsRogheyeh Chehreh-AzadMohamad Ali KeshavarzFarimah FarjamiHow a mother acts in the hardest parts of her, and her children's lives.
- DirectorHamid NematollahStarsMohammad Reza GolzarGolshifteh FarahaniReza RooygariEti, a 17-year-old girl from a poor family, wants to escape her infernal class boundaries with the help of Jahan, a young man.
- DirectorRakhshan BanietemadStarsGolab AdinehMohammad Reza ForutanBaran KosariA valuable visual commentary on modern society, 'Under The Skin Of The City' follows one Iranian family in their eternal struggle to stay afloat financially and emotionally. Touba works hard at a textile factory to make ends meet during the day, returning in the evening to face the trials and tribulations of her family: her pregnant daughter who frequently suffers at the hands of her abusive husband, a son embroiled in radical politics, and another son who hopes to escape to Japan. In their fight for self-determination and independence, Touba and her family come to represent the plight of the working class in modern day Tehran.
- DirectorReza MirkarimiStarsAlireza PhoenixMasoud RayeganAfshin HashemiDr. Alam, a very profiled specialist in neurology and a successful surgeon, is drowned in his professional and social work, in a way that he has totally forgotten all about his son Saman. Samantha the beautiful nights of desert with it starfull sky attracts Saman to itself and the young boy falls in love with night sky and observation of stars. Due to an event the doctor leaves his profession and work behind and goes through the desert to find his son.
- DirectorHamid NematollahStarsBahram RadanLeila HatamiNader FallahA haughty acclaimed newly married fashion designer named Iraj is shown the door by his boss after the boss's son arrives at Iran to take over his father's company. Iraj reluctant to promulgate the loss of his job, starts using his savings, trying to conceal the truth from his naive wife. Having squandered all the money he had on trivial matters, he tells his wife about being axed & that's when the tables turn on him.
- DirectorMaziar MiriStarsMahnaz AfsharAmir AghaeeHamed BehdadA look at the lives of 3 well-off Iranian couples who are ostensibly living an idyllic life and are going to have a get-together for a birthday party. Each couple bearing their own sordid secrets attend the party to find out what follows on the hills of the cold welcome of their host.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsMohammad Reza ForutanBahram RadanPoulad KimiayiThe story of four soldiers who on a Friday go to the city with their commander. But this Friday is different and brings many troubles for them which changes them forever.
- DirectorAhmad Reza DarvishStarsMohammad Reza ForutanMitra HajjarMahmoud AziziDaniel who is from the south of Iran is studying in Tehran university. His classmate Mahtab is in love with him and they want to get marry. She tells her mother to tell the father that Daniel wants to come propose for her. But Daniel faces some troubles in the university which make him to leave for his city in south and Mahtab goes after him there. When he wants to get her back they face a flood which trapped them in a mine field.
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsDariush ArjmandMohammad Reza ForutanMitra HajjarAmir who was in jail for a murder gets free after twelve years behind bars and finds that now there is a huge gap between his generation and his brothers'.
- DirectorKiumars PoorahmadStarsElham CharkhandehMohammad Reza ForutanHilda HashempourHamed is unemployed. Meanwhile, his wife and daughter immigrate to Europe for a better future. Missing his family, he imprisons himself and starts to revise his life in isolation.
- DirectorFereydoun JeyraniStarsHediyeh TehraniMohammad Reza ForutanKamand AmirsoleimaniHasti, a widowed nurse who has a daughter, marries a paranoid wealthy man.
- 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.
- DirectorManijeh HekmatStarsRoya NonahaliRoya TeymourianPegah AhangaraniSpanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young midwife, Mitra, who is serving her sentence for killing her mother's abusive husband. In the early years, Mitra is repeatedly punished as the warden tries to break her. This includes punishment for delivering a baby in the prison cell while all of the prison staff has taken shelter during an Iraqi bombing. The warden's attitude starts to change after 8 years, when Mitra tries to protect a new inmate from rape at the hands of her older cellmates. When the baby comes back in 1991 as a 17 year old delinquent, Sepideh, the warden respects Mitra enough to protect the girl.
- DirectorReza MirkarimiStarsReza KianianNegar JavaherianFarhad AslaniThe story happens in an old house in an old city of Iran. Because of the wedding of the youngest sister, Pasandide, all of her sisters come to their old house to help their mother.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsBehzad DoraniNoghre AsadiRoushan Karam ElmiIrreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsSima Mobarak-ShahiShayesteh IraniAyda SadeqiThe struggle of women in a country that excludes them from entering stadiums.
- DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsSoran EbrahimAvaz LatifSaddam Hossein FeysalNear the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children, like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.