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- DirectorHasan NajmabadiStarsMahtab GilakpourNegar Paraj
- DirectorSaman HaghighivandFatemeh PourhashemiA trans-boy is dreaming in his privacy. Suddenly, the family pressure starts and makes him unsafe. Finally, it leads him to rejection by his family.
- DirectorPouria Heidary OurehStarsHovhannes AzoyanHenri HakobyanPedram AnsariAram, the Iranian Armenian youth who has immigrated to the US in childhood returns to Armenia for the first time to propose to an Armenian girlfriend Aram met and lived with in the US. Aram sees many cultural, religious, and national differences on the one day trip, but harder obstacles are ahead.
- DirectorSajjad ShahhatamiStarsHanan AziziNiloofar AziziSamareh BarazandehA dilemma of choosing between sense and sensibility regarding one's innermost feelings.
- DirectorNegar AzarbayjaniStarsShayesteh IraniGhazal ShakeriHomayoun ErshadiRana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transgender man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same journey and caused to know each other in a better way.
- DirectorMilad AlamiStarsPayman MaadiAmirali AbanzadAhmed AbdullahiIman and his family flee Iran and end up in a hotel turned into a refugee center in Northern Sweden. Iman maintains his role as family patriarch but he breaks promise to his wife and joins local wrestling club. Rumours spread, Iman's fear and desperation begin to take a hold.
- DirectorMaryam ShahriarStarsAltinay Ghelich TaghaniSoghra KarimiZahra MohammadiAmangol's father cuts her hair and sends her to a village to work as a boy in a carpet weaving shop.
- DirectorTanaz EshaghianAn intimate and unflinching look at life in Iran, seen through the lens of those living at its fringes, 'Be Like Others' is a provocative look at a generation of young Iranian men choosing to undergo sex change surgery.
- DirectorDarwin SerinkStarsMojean AriaBobby NaderiInspired by true events, Aban and Khorshid is an intimate portrait of two lovers, glimpsing into the world in which they met, moments before their execution for being gay.
- DirectorAbbas TaheriMahdie ToosiStarsShadi AmiriZand Akbari JananAli KhoshbinUnder constant pressure from her ex-husband, Nazanin should turn their child - Aban, nine years old - away from a very driven feminine taste. One day, Aban goes to the hospital thinking of undergoing life-changing surgery.
- DirectorAngelina MaccaroneStarsJasmin TabatabaiNavid NavidMossadegh HamidThe educated Fariba Tabrizi flies from Teheran to Germany expecting to have asylum, since she is persecuted in Iran due to her lesbian relationship with her beloved Shirin. However, her application is denied by the authorities and Fariba has to return to her home country. When her recent acquaintance Siamak, who is grieving the death of his brother, commits suicide, Fariba assumes his identity and status of political refugee and is sent to a refugee camp in a German village. Fariba finds an illegal work in a cabbage factory and she has many difficulties for not having bath with the other male workers. She becomes close to her colleague Anne and they fall in love for each other. However, prejudice and her illegal condition jeopardize her exile in Germany.
- DirectorFaraz ShariatStarsBenjamin RadjaipourBanafshe HourmazdiEidin JalaliSecond-generation Irani-German Parvis works at a refugee shelter where he meets brother and sister Irani refugees and develops a tenuous romance with Amon as his friends attempt refugee status.
- DirectorArash EshaghiAn 80-year-old man, known in his youth for having danced at local ceremonies and celebrations dressed as a woman. Dancing publicly is banned after the revolution and he lives now as a farmer, taking care of cows. This film captures one man's continued pursuit of happiness through dancing.
- DirectorArman FayyazStarsNima HassandokhtThe young woman who committed suicide was carring for bury to the tomb of the village, but the fanatical villagers were expelled after discovering the female hermaphrodite nature and engaging with his wife.