Border Café (2005)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 45M
Director : Kambuzia Partovi
Sinopsis
A young widow takes over her late husband’s truck stop café, keeping hidden in the kitchen so as not to cause a scandal in Iran’s conservative society. But her brother-in-law, out of familial obligation, wants to take her as a wife and also take over the café. Meanwhile a Greek trucker who is a frequent café customer is slowly entranced — at first by her sublime cooking ability, and then by her.
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 young university professor, who leads a quiet and reclusive life and fills his life with reading and teaching literature, meet a young girl who has altered the course of her life for the sake of a man she loves. She has promised to meet her beloved at a certain spot on four consecutive nights exactly one year after their last meeting. The young professor's encounter with the young and passionate girl during four nights brings about significant changes in both of their lives and beliefs. Now concepts like love, literature and expection have a new meaning for them.
A Tehran mullah-in-training struggles to take care of his ailing wife and their children in this profoundly moving melodrama. A film of near-universal appeal, it puts a human face on Iran's Muslim clergy with its unusual tale of a man forced by hardship to become a better husband and father. Seyed Reza has just moved with his family to Tehran so he can study the Koran, and he relies on his lovely wife Zahra to look after their two young children and weave the intricate rugs that earn them a living. But one evening Zahra collapses and is taken to the hospital, where she's diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Scarcely able to process the tragedy, Seyed is left to cook, change diapers, walk his daughter to school and take his toddler son with him to his classes, where peers and elders treat him with scorn. But Seyed eventually learns to cope, his prayers and devotional studies taking on deeper meaning as he attends to the hard nightly work of rug weaving, getting through with a heavy ...
What appears to be a grand love story turns sour when parents-to-be discover that their unborn child will likely be born with serious birth defects, as a result of the mother's exposure to chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. The father does not want to have a disabled child, but the mother insists on going through with the pregnancy.
Una persona quiere secuestrar un avión para salir de Irán y curar a su hijo enfermo.
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.
Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family because of this profession, which they despise. He falls for one of his music students but after a short blissful period, life doesn't treat him as well as before and also his addiction agonizes him in his numbered days before redemption.
The story is about a family of three brothers and a sister in the suburbs of the city's poverty. Their elder brother owns a drug-producing kitchen and presides over the group, like a shepherd for sheep.
En 1347, un viejo prisionero en el sur de Irán está siendo evacuado debido a la proximidad al nuevo aeropuerto de la ciudad. El jefe de la prisión, Mayor Nemat Jahed, y sus agentes están ocupados transfiriendo prisioneros a la nueva prisión, hasta que ...
El comentario satírico sobre los clérigos en el Irán posrevolucionario. Mientras está en prisión, el pequeño criminal Reza (Parviz Parastui) se encuentra con un clérigo, lo que desató un plan para escapar. Reza se pone la túnica clerical de su nuevo conocido y apuesta por la libertad. Pronto se entera de que ser un clérigo trae poco respeto del público. Reza viaja a las aldeas periféricas, desde donde planea escapar del país. Sin embargo, sus planes deben quedar en suspenso cuando los aldeanos lo acepten en su comunidad y esperen que realice tareas religiosas. ¿La ruptura de la prisión de Reza lo convertirá en un pilar poco probable de la comunidad?
Somaieh, la hija más joven de una familia indigente, se va a casar y el miedo es abrumador para todos y cada uno de los miembros de la familia sobre cómo superar sus dificultades después de que ella se haya ido.
En Irán, la pena por posesión de drogas es la misma tanto si llevas 30g como 50kg: la pena de muerte. En estas condiciones, los narcotraficantes no tienen reparos en jugar a lo grande y la venta de crack se ha disparado. Como resultado, 6,5 millones de personas son toxicómanos. Después de varios años de seguir la pista al narcotraficante Nasser K. Samad, un policía persistente y expeditivo consigue por fin echarle el guante. Aunque creía que el caso estaba cerrado, el enfrentamiento con el cerebro de la red toma un giro completamente inesperado.
