Stranger (2014)

An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.

Nader (Peyman Moaadi) y Simin (Leila Hatami) son un matrimonio iraní con una hija. Simin quiere abandonar Irán en busca de una vida mejor, pero Nader, que desea quedarse para cuidar a su padre, que tiene Alzheimer, le pide el divorcio. Como no lo consigue, se muda a vivir con sus padres y contrata a una mujer para que le ayude a cuidar a su padre. Un día, al llegar a casa, encuentra al anciano atado a la cama; a partir de ese momento, su vida dará un vuelco.

A 15-year-old Somalian boy meets a 40-year-old Iranian man in a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them, they decide to take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer.

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.

Durante la guerra entre Irán e Iraq, la vispera del Año Nuevo, Teherán está siendo fuertemente bombardeada por misiles. Gilaneh, una solitaria campesina de mediana edad, debe mandar a su hijo a la guerra. También tiene que acompañar a su hija a la capital para tratar de encontrar a su yerno, que ha desertado… 15 años después: Otra víspera de Año Nuevo, y Gilaneh (agotada por la vida que lleva) está cuidando de su hijo herido por armas químicas y hoy lejos de su hija. Incapaz de ocuparse de su hijo como ella desearía, espera una mujer del sur que ha perdido a su marido en la guerra y le prometió casarse con su hijo… El film muestra a personas cuyos amores y destinos han sido violados y cruelmente alterados por la guerra.

A sensation when released in 1999 in Iran, Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic. Tahimine Milani creates this scathing portrait of those traditions - aided by official indifference - which conspire to trap women and stop them from realizing their full potential; the inclusion of frank depictions of domestic violence was hailed by many as a breakthrough in dealing with a long taboo subject.

This twisted Iranian narrative follows a mysterious couple from Tehran as they distribute large bags of money in an impoverished mountain border town. Beginning as a black comedy, the film's mood transforms as the games played by Kaveh (director Mani Haghighi) and Leyla (Taraneh Alidoosti) become increasingly perverse, as they find inventive ways of humiliating the recipients of the cash. The immorality of the central characters is at times sickening, and their chain of lies is often as puzzling to us as they are to the townsfolk depicted onscreen. What is the relationship between the pair and why are they giving away money to the needy? Modest Reception has no easy answers nor pat resolutions - instead Haghighi takes the viewer on an intriguing ride into the dark recesses of the human spirit.

Two homicide detectives investigates the murder of a woman ...

Shirin , una mujer joven, tiene solo un día para ganar mucho dinero rápido, con el fin de reparar el auto de su padre que se dañó en un accidente. Se hace amiga de un joven ingenuo llamado Mohammad ( Saber Abar ) que intenta ayudarla a recaudar dinero entrando en un edificio de apartamentos e instalando antenas parabólicas ilegales para los diversos residentes con puntos de vista divergentes sobre los medios, cuando se meten en más problemas.

A coming-of-age story about Jack, a 16-year old Iranian boy growing up in 1989 Los Angeles. With the 1979 Iranian Revolution a distant memory, the AIDS movement as a backdrop, and a haunting score by Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij, Jack learns how to stage his own much smaller revolution within the confines of his traditional family.

Behzad, who has been in prison for manslaughter for a long time, has a son who does not know about him. When he is introduced, the son goes through a conflict. Then, as a family, they go to the victim's family seeking consent so Reza would be released.

Maryam (Negar Javaherian) and Reza (Shahab Hosseini) are different from other people, it's not just a simple difference, but a very big difference. They must try to prove to others they have solved the big difference with the miracle of love ...

an Iranian TV and documentary director who becomes involved in the plight of Malineh, a young woman who appeared in her latest film. Malineh is desperate to sell one of her kidneys in order to raise money for the defense of her mother, who faces hanging on a charge of murdering her husband.

The renovation of a rambling family homestead becomes a metaphor for an unexpected assault on traditional family values when a newly married twenty-something brings her architect husband to draw up the plans for her aunt and uncle’s rehab job.

The uneasy relationship between a mother and daughter is made all the more turbulent by drug abuse in this downbeat drama from Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab

Spanning 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.

THE BRIGHT DAY weaves a story that has its roots in the complexity of Iran’s draconian laws governing capital punishment. A kindergarten teacher hopes to aid the father of one of her young students, a man accused of manslaughter, by convincing each of seven reluctant witnesses to come forward. No one lacks a hidden agenda in this drama in which shades of truth collide with self-interest and the specter of payback. (Gene Siskel Film Center)

A 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.

En la ciudad iraní de Bad City puede pasar cualquier cosa. En medio de un abanico de personajes marginales, un vampiro vaga en busca de sangre. Al western vampírico se le suma un romance teñido de sangre. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night combina géneros y estilos: invoca el western, la fascinación propia de Lynch, el terror y las novelas gráficas. (FILMAFFINITY)

The story is about the world of a small family with familiar dreams and not so remarkable problems. The mother is trying to lead everything to save her family, but small events disarrange all her plans.