Zar Amir Ebrahimi

A short political drama about a committee that is formed to choose a new national anthem after a fictional country goes through a revolution.

Set in post-revolution Iran as extremism took hold, Nafisi’s book tells the autobiographical story of a fearless teacher who secretly gathered seven of her female students to read forbidden Western classics.

The film follows Iranian female judoka Leila and her coach Maryam, who travel to the Judo World Championship, intent on bringing home Iran’s first gold medal. Midway through the competition, they receive an ultimatum from the Islamic Republic ordering Leila to fake an injury and lose. With her own and her family’s freedom at stake, Leila is faced with an impossible choice: feign injury and comply with the Iranian regime as Maryam implores her to do, or defy them both and fight on, for the gold.

The film follows Iranian female judoka Leila and her coach Maryam, who travel to the Judo World Championship, intent on bringing home Iran’s first gold medal. Midway through the competition, they receive an ultimatum from the Islamic Republic ordering Leila to fake an injury and lose. With her own and her family’s freedom at stake, Leila is faced with an impossible choice: feign injury and comply with the Iranian regime as Maryam implores her to do, or defy them both and fight on, for the gold.

The film follows Iranian female judoka Leila and her coach Maryam, who travel to the Judo World Championship, intent on bringing home Iran’s first gold medal. Midway through the competition, they receive an ultimatum from the Islamic Republic ordering Leila to fake an injury and lose. With her own and her family’s freedom at stake, Leila is faced with an impossible choice: feign injury and comply with the Iranian regime as Maryam implores her to do, or defy them both and fight on, for the gold.

After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defence against a rapist. For a pardon, she would have had to retract her testimony. This moving film reopens the case.

Mojtaba, Hamzeh, Zar are among other individuals who have been thrown into prison and ideologically interrogated in Iran. In this documentary, the director wants them to interrogate him as agents of the Islamic Republic might. He would like the real torturer in Iran to see himself through the film as if in a mirror. The violent experience of putting themselves in the torturer's head confronts them with their own limits and the ambivalence of the project itself.

In the aftermath of a devastating rumor, Iman and his family have been forced to flee Iran. As refugees, they end up in a run-down hotel in northern Sweden. Despite feeling powerless, Iman tries to maintain his role as the family patriarch. To increase their chances of asylum, he breaks a promise to his wife and joins the local wrestling club. As the rumours start to resurface, Iman’s fear and desperation begin to take a hold.

A young Iranian mother finds refuge in an Australian women's shelter with her six-year-old daughter.

Samuel, un hombre viudo que vive en los Alpes italianos, decide ayudar a Chehreh, una mujer afgana que quiere llegar a Francia de forma clandestina. Ambos, deberán enfrentarse a una naturaleza hostil y a la persecución de los intransigentes jóvenes que viven allí que pronto se irá de las manos.Samuel y Chehreh son dos personajes obligados, por diferentes motivos, a dejar atrás el pasado. Ambos, son dos seres en peligro, dos seres opuestos que en el entorno hostil de la montaña alpina y sin estar preparados para superar las adversidades de este lugar deberán ayudarse a sobrevivir.

Irán, 2001. Una periodista de Teherán se sumerge en los barrios con peor reputación de la ciudad santa de Mashhad para investigar una serie de feminicidios. Pronto se dará cuenta de que las autoridades locales no tienen ninguna prisa por resolver el asunto. Los crímenes son obra de un solo hombre, que asegura purificar la ciudad de sus pecados y que ataca a prostitutas por la noche.

Irán, 2001. Una periodista de Teherán se sumerge en los barrios con peor reputación de la ciudad santa de Mashhad para investigar una serie de feminicidios. Pronto se dará cuenta de que las autoridades locales no tienen ninguna prisa por resolver el asunto. Los crímenes son obra de un solo hombre, que asegura purificar la ciudad de sus pecados y que ataca a prostitutas por la noche.

Irán, 2001. Una periodista de Teherán se sumerge en los barrios con peor reputación de la ciudad santa de Mashhad para investigar una serie de feminicidios. Pronto se dará cuenta de que las autoridades locales no tienen ninguna prisa por resolver el asunto. Los crímenes son obra de un solo hombre, que asegura purificar la ciudad de sus pecados y que ataca a prostitutas por la noche.

A fantasy, road- movie regarding Man and Maryam that embark on an adventure road trip to find their missing along with three others remnant from the circus group.

Iran 1979. The Islamic Revolution is shaking up the country. Dissident Omid, who lived for several years in the German Democratic Republic with his wife, chemical engineer Beate and their mutual daughter, hears the call from his homeland and returns to Teheran with high hopes and best intentions, bringing along his family.

One night. On the deserted ski slopes, the nocturnal outing of the snow-grooming machines is being prepared. Twenty-five-year-old Antoine meets up with his team. Right in the middle of the world the hypnotic ballet of the machines, which tirelessly shape the landscape, begins. The mountain rumbles suddenly. Immobilized in the night, Antoine begins a journey in the interval where the myths of a mountain, both feared and venerated, are embodied.

Iranian film director Amir Naderi talks to Zar Amir Ebrahimi about his career in this documentary directed and produced by Ebrahimi and broadcast by BBC World Service and BBC Persian. Amir Naderi is one of the most influential figures of Iranian modern cinema. He was born in 1945 in the Persian Gulf port of Abadan. Orphaned at an early age and living the life of a street urchin, Naderi had to survive by selling ice, working as a shoeshine boy and recycling empty beer bottles. He developed his knowledge of cinema by watching films in the theaters where he worked at a very young age. He began his career by taking pictures for some notable Iranian features. In the 1970’s, he started directing his own films, and made some of the most important movies of the New Iranian Cinema. After moving to New York in the early 90’s, Amir Naderi continued to make films. They have premiered at the Venice, Cannes, Tribeca, and Sundance Film Festivals.

Iranian film director Amir Naderi talks to Zar Amir Ebrahimi about his career in this documentary directed and produced by Ebrahimi and broadcast by BBC World Service and BBC Persian. Amir Naderi is one of the most influential figures of Iranian modern cinema. He was born in 1945 in the Persian Gulf port of Abadan. Orphaned at an early age and living the life of a street urchin, Naderi had to survive by selling ice, working as a shoeshine boy and recycling empty beer bottles. He developed his knowledge of cinema by watching films in the theaters where he worked at a very young age. He began his career by taking pictures for some notable Iranian features. In the 1970’s, he started directing his own films, and made some of the most important movies of the New Iranian Cinema. After moving to New York in the early 90’s, Amir Naderi continued to make films. They have premiered at the Venice, Cannes, Tribeca, and Sundance Film Festivals.

Las vidas de tres mujeres de fuerte voluntad y un joven músico se cruzan en la sociedad esquizofrénica de Teherán, donde el sexo, el adulterio, la corrupción, la prostitución y las drogas conviven con la estricta ley religiosa. En esta bulliciosa metrópoli moderna, evitar la prohibición se ha convertido en un deporte cotidiano y romper tabúes puede ser un medio de emancipación personal.

Omid and Vida grew up as friends in Iran. Now Omid lives in Sweden since many years while Vida still is in Iran. They decide to get married and live together in Sweden, but they're not well prepared for the culture clash.

Vida is a young Iranian lifeguard swimmer. Popular in her team, she is determined to fight in order to be the one to participate in an international competition in Australia. However, when Sareh, as fast and talented as her joins the team, she will have to face an unexpected situation.