Hooman Behmanesh

In the winter of 1988, in the depths of the Iraq/Iran war, the border town of Halabja was attacked by chemical weapons with all its people and their different stories.

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.

Alí, un niño de 12 años, y sus tres amigos trabajan para sobrevivir y ayudar a sus familias haciendo pequeños trabajos en un garaje y cometiendo pequeños delitos para conseguir dinero rápido. En un milagroso giro de los acontecimientos, Alí recibe el encargo de encontrar un tesoro oculto bajo tierra. Para ello recluta a sus amigos pero, antes de empezar la misión, deben unirse a la Escuela del Sol, una institución caritativa que intenta educar a niños sin hogar y que está ubicada cerca de donde supuestamente se halla el tesoro.

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.

Mahtab and Ava are classmates in their second year of college studying engineering. The story begin when they and other classmates go on a trip to Esfahan.

A couple's son, Parham disappears in the babysitter's house. Complications arise as the babysitter claims Parham hasn't been to their house.

Un Chevrolet Impala naranja, conduce a través de un cementerio hacia un naufragio en mitad del desierto. Es 22 de enero de 1965. El día antes, el Primer Ministro iraní es asesinado frente al Parlamento. En su interior, un prisionero político desterrado se acaba de ahorcar, dejando la paredes de su celda llenas de simbolos extraños y citas literarias. El inspector Babak Hafizi se hace cargo de la investigación, ayudado por un ingeniero de sonido y un geólogo en un caso que se prolongará sin resolver, cincuenta años después.

Amir and Sara are a young couple on their way to Melbourne to continue their studies. However, just a few hours before the departure of their flight, they are unintentionally involved in a tragic event.

The fault lines in a marriage become evident when an out-of-town couple and their child arrive for a corporate trade show at a Tehran hotel. Accustomed to berating his pretty wife for her shy demeanor and her suburban manner, the husband is taken aback when she blooms under the attentions of a male colleague and is given a role in planning his company’s presentation. (Gene Siskel Film Center)

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Esmaeil Fallah and his wife Marziyeh, who is also his cousin and pregnant, are worried about their child and they go to a doctor. The doctor tells them that the child is blind, deaf and mute and it would be a torture to keep him...

Reunión de 33 cortometrajes de unos tres minutos cada uno realizados por 35 directores con motivo del 60 aniversario del Festival de Cannes.

A closed circuit camera for traffic control in Tehran reacts to the wanderings of a single woman on a high-way.