Hedie Tehrani
A remote village has not had a previous boom for years. Residents have either been forced to migrate or are in poverty and misery, but the village has a new guest. But the village has a new...
The Saburi family is a large and old family that has been exporting and importing flowers and plants for many years. They still live in peace in an old house, the arrival of a young man in this family changes the lives of the whole family.
Hamed and Sepideh are not in a relationship anymore; they parted ways and the college years in which they watched movies together are just a far-off memory. Hamed has pursued his passion for music, he has recently released his first album and has been married for a year with a music instructor, Minoo. Sepideh has become an English teacher for preschoolers and is now wed to a builder, Massoud, who ironically can’t seem to build a solid marriage. In spite of everything, Hamed hasn’t forgotten about Sepideh yet and, when she goes back to their hometown, Minoo encourages her husband to meet her and clear his mind about what he really wants. With the collusion of a long time friend who owns a stationer, Hamed orchestrates an accidental meeting with Sepideh, in the attempt to find out more about her current life and, at the same time, to put himself to test.
Danesh works in a barbershop and dreams about becoming an actor. Manfered is an agent who would introduce Danesh to a famous director if he collects enough long hairs to be used as wigs. At the same time a series of murders have worried everyone. Who is the killer and is the barbershop in any way related?
A tough-as-nails farm contractor proves she can compete, against unfair odds, with male competitors and lead her crew of female workers on northern Tehran’s largest orange harvest.
It's about a family that has the opportunity to solve the mother's problem one night.
Kaveh Nariman is a Doctor in the medical examiner's office. One day at his work he meets a corpse which is very familiar to him.
Mahtab is suspicious of her husband Ahmad, a university professor. As she tries to unravel the mystery instigated by Sima, a close friend of the family, by pressuring Farnoosh Kheirkhah, Ahmad's student, her husband tries to prove his innocence. But the sudden death of Farnoosh opens a new path before Ahmad, Mahtab, Sima, and her husband Mansoor.
It is about life of a young couple who want to migrate from their country. But the arrival of Nazli makes problems...
Domestic drama charting the course of a self-effacing Iranian couple as their ordered lives begin to fracture under the strain of work commitments, money troubles and the responsibility of family. Mitra and Nima are struggling to make ends meet, their relationship in desperate need of rekindling. But when Mitra's sister Maryam shows up on their doorstep, on the run from her estranged husband, their lives are tipped over the edge by the ensuing scandal. As Mitra and Nima reflect on their own lives and take sides against one another, events will come to a head as the weight of disloyalty begins to unravel a once perfect relationship.
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus, denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho, which will only add to the difficulty of the undertaking, as it is forbidden for Iranian women to sing in public, let alone in the company of men. But Mamo is determined to carry through, if not for the gullible antics of the bus driver.
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.
This documentary looks at different aspects of the life of Bahman Farmanara, the well known Iranian film director and producer.
On the day before their holiday trip to Dubai, a wife who believes her husband is unfaithful enlists the help of Roohi, a young woman sent by an agency to clean the house. She asks Roohi to make an appointment and gather information at the salon of the woman she suspects. Roohi is betrothed, innocent of marital discord. Over the course of the day, she, the couple, their small son, the wife's sister and husband, and the beautician engage in a series of exchanges, confrontations, and prevarications. Are the wife's suspicions unwarranted; is her behavior imperiling her marriage? Acts of kindness may go awry. And the trip to Dubai?
Babak is more than just an unemployed engineer living with his parents in his 20s. He possesses a supernatural sense of hearing, so strong he can hear through solid walls and over great distances. But Babak is not the only one with bizarre, unexplained powers. A group of extraordinary individuals begin to emerge and find each other. Will they learn to use their powers for anything other than their own selfish means? With experimental sequences and innovative camerawork, director Iraj Karimi takes a whimsical look at a band of youths brought together through their abilities, but bound by their lack of purpose.
Two old writers who one of them is returned to Iran after 38 years because of his son's suicide, are going on a trip to the grave of that son.
An old Iranian man disappears while searching for a friend who's been dead ten years, so his agitated daughter enlists her estranged husband to look for him; the husband puts his foot down at first but soon finds himself cruising the streets of Tehran with his best friend, searching for the old rascal and cursing all the way.
Donya 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.
Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.
Unruled Paper is a 2002 Iranian film directed by Naser Taghva'i, based on an original script by Naser Taghva'i and Minoo Farsh'chi. The film was produced in 2001 by Yekta Film.
Zamane and Saeid are neighbors. Despite their own arrangements to get married, their families are against this marriage. Zamane’s family’s reason for this opposition, especially her father’s, is the fact that Saeid is a disabled veteran who is on the wheelchair. Zamane, who’s had enough of her family’s strict behavior, offers Saeid to run away with her and then get married, but he doesn’t accept that.
When his business partner is hurt in a car accident, happily married Mahmoud (Fariborz Arabnia) must travel to Tehran, where he falls for the beautiful Sima (Hedye Tehrani). The two agree to a "temporary marriage," but problems arise when Sima doesn't want the arrangement to end. Sima's reluctance to play her expected role in this common Islamic practice soon turns to obsession in this smash hit from Iran.
The old story of the love of a poor boy for a rich girl, but with a twist. 'Bozorg' who works in a car showroom, damages the Mercedes belonging to a rich lady pharmacist. The girl, Behrokh,...
Álvaro gets stuck in the European map due to the icelandic volcanic cloud blocking every flight.
Diba and Siamak with the help of a young couple Nader and Roya decide to steal from a wedding ceremony. They steal some jewelry and escape but the cops are after them.
