Tala

This fascinating moral thriller is centered on the bristling relationship between two very different young women in contemporary Tehran. Nazanin (Nazanin Bayati) is a determined first year medical student. Since there is no free space in the university dorm and Nazanin does not have much money, she is obliged to share an apartment with Sahar (Pegah Ahangarani), a party lover who works in a fragrance shop. Sahar badly wants to migrate from Iran, so she’s borrowed money from a man in the bazaar. When this man makes an opportunistic complaint against Sahar, she is imprisoned. There have been some very some rocky times between the two roommates and their conflicting lifestyles, but Nazanin will now do everything she can to have her friend released.

A vivid image of youths in Iran.

In this upbeat Iranian drama, Reza, a selfless boy, sacrifices his vacation to look after an elderly woman he met while aboard an overnight trainride to Tehran. The poor lady is upset for someone has stolen her jewels and money. The boy feels protective and insists that he help her to the Tehran airport. While there, the woman has a small heart attack and is taken to the hospital. Meanwhile Reza, who discovers that the aunt he was supposed to visit and vacation with has left without him, ends up spending the night in the hospital. The next day, Reza roams the city in search of enough money to help his new friend afford her operation.

A young girl informs her father she’s been kidnapped and asks him to bring the ransom money. Panicked, her father and brothers go to Tehran to look for her. They are unaware, however, that the girl has in fact eloped with her boyfriend and now spends her time in the company of a band of street musicians. Following the arrest of the band leader and full of the love for her boyfriend, the young girl descends an uncertain path…

An Iranian jeweler who helped arrest a thief discovers that the culprit has been released from prison and is out for revenge.

Three siblings scour the streets of Teheran looking for an adult to pose as a guardian, because the time has come for the younger brother to be circumcised.