Snow (2014)

Dos personas entran en conflicto a causa de la propiedad de una casa en el norte de California. Para Kathy Nicolo, es no sólo la casa de su infancia, sino también la última esperanza que le queda para reintegrarse a una vida que casi pierde por su adicción a las drogas. Cuando recibe una orden de desahucio por impago de impuestos, se queda en la calle y no puede impedir que la casa sea vendida a un precio irrisorio. Para el nuevo propietario, Massoud Amir Behrani, la casa es la plasmación del sueño americano que lleva persiguiendo desde que salió de Irán con toda su familia. Antiguo coronel de las Fuerzas Aéreas iraníes, Behrani se ha visto obligado a trabajar en empleos muy modestos para poder mantener las apariencias. Ahora ha invertido hasta el último céntimo en la compra de la casa que, por fin, devolverá a su familia su antigua prosperidad.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?

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.

Cuando la torre se queda sola y no hay pieza alguna para ayudarla. Cuando ya ha perdido toda la esperanza para la victoria y está cansada, elige la última solución: se destruye a sí misma para que el juego termine en empate hasta que, por fin, recibe el tiro de gracia. En ajedrez llaman a esta situación la Torre Suicida. Tiene otro nombre que el protagonista de esta película asume plenamente: La Torre Loca.

Apenas unas horas después de su boda, Amir, un muchacho del sur de Teherán, recibe una llamada de su amigo más cercano, Habib, quien insiste en reunirse con él para hablar sobre un asunto urgente. Se apresura al lugar de trabajo de Habib y allí escucha la afirmación devastadora de Habib de que su futura esposa no es la niña sexualmente inocente que él creía. En una mezcla de rabia y desconcierto, él lleva a la novia al lugar de la boda y luego se marcha para revelar la verdad sobre su pasado.

Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class society.

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.

The advocate for a young Iranian refugee held in detention. Amir Ali claims to be an Iranian student persecuted by the government but the Department of Immigration dispute his identity. When Julia meets Amir, he is severely depressed and close to deportation. Julia throws herself obsessively into Amir's case, causing friction between Julia and her husband, Peter. Julia eventually frees Amir and the young Iranian man moves in with Peter and Julia. As Julia helps Amir adjust to ordinary life, she finds herself increasingly attracted to this handsome, damaged young man. But she also starts to see the subtle cracks in Amir's story. Is he really who he claims he is? Or does he have a darker, more dangerous history?

Nahal is around thirty and in her fourth month of pregnancy. During a routine check-up she learns that her baby has died and she now faces a curettage abortion in two days’ time. When she tries to address the subject, neither her mother nor her husband give her a chance to speak.

A hacker group empty a bank account of a big strong person. The story goes on and now they must pay for that.

The movie is the story of a gang of men who decide to participate in Iran-Iraq war, also known as First Gulf War, which lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. the main character, Suzuki, who is there to satisfy his beloved's father that he is worthy of marrying his daughter, goes through some moving experiences in the war and his character changes to a level that he even tries to sacrifice himself to save the others in the war. the Movie ends by his martyrdom.

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

Fereshteh loses her home and her two sons after her husband's accidental death when Hadj Safdar, her stubborn and powerful father-in-law, forces her to return to her parents. She is faced with the loss of her visitation rights when Hadj plans to send his grandchildren to live in a remote town. With the help of her circle of women friends she tries to take them beyond his reach, but in a patriarchal society it is hard to find a safe haven.

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.

Bahman, Mahtab, Ramin and Donya Mehdipour are enjoying a perfect summer in a small Finnish town. Their routines are fractured by a negative decision on their application for asylum by the Finnish Immigration Service. But life must go on and the 13-year-old Ramin is about to enter an entirely new school, junior high. The Mehdipours use their last chance to appeal but continue their everyday lives, fuelled by their exceptionally positive outlook and attitude.