The Mother
At 40 years old, Leila has spent her whole life taking care of her parents and her four brothers. The family argues constantly and is crushed by debts, in a country caught in the grip of international economic sanctions. As her brothers are trying to make ends meet, Leila formulates a plan: to start a family business that would save them for poverty. While they are in desperate need of financial support, Leila finds out that their father Esmail has secretly been hiding a family heirloom. He had been saving it as an offering to become the new Patriarch of the clan, the highest honor in the Persian tradition. This uncovering will bring chaos to the already fragile family dynamics. As the father's health deteriorates, the actions of each family member will gradually lead the family one step closer to implosion.
A man, who has some kind of a disease and eats a lot, enters a poor and large family to marry their mother.
Rahman (Parviz Parastuyi) falls in love with a Christan woman from Lebanon. She was a Christan but she becomes Muslim before her second meeting with Rahman. So he decides to marry her.
Niloofar is a twelve-year-old girl whose dream is to read and write, but she lives in a village where education is only for boys. Her mother, a well-known midwife, insists that Niloofar become her apprentice. While assisting her mother during a delivery, Niloofar meets a feminist woman who undertakes to teach her in secret. Unfortunately, in exchange of a palm tree field, Niloofar's father promises her in marriage to an older man once she becomes a woman. Horrified by this notion, Niloofar does everything in her power to postpone her first periods. Eventually, the inevitable occurs. HOwever, Niloofar, who is determined to keep her freedom as long as possible, arranges to conceal the fact from her family for another two years until the truth can no longer be hidden. Then, rather than live in a marriage without love, Niloofar runs away with her friend. Shocked, her family considers itself dishonored and sends her step-brother to track her down
Una madre y esposa se encuentra al borde de un ataque. Tahareh Hengameh Ghaziani vive con su esposo, su hijo y su hija en un barrio de clase media, y dedica sus días a cuidar de sus necesidades.
As the days of several different people unfold, their separate lives are about to become linked by a tragic car crash which kills two women. Affected by their involvement in the accident in different ways, neither Amir or Mr Naseri will ever be the same again. How will the tragedy affect their relationships with those around them in this absorbing drama? Written by IMVBox.com
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.
Forough Kia is a film-maker who got divorced from her husband many years ago and now is living with her son Maani. She decides to make a documentary about perfect mothers. In order to do so she meets many mothers to chose the perfect mother among them. She finally decides to quit making this film because of tiredness but doctor Rahbar wants her to continue. Maani is teasing her every day preventing her from marrying doctor Rahbar but she finally decides that she wants to marry him.
An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to abandon the relationship with the poor girl, the old man makes his final choice of love.
A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law.
