Asghar Shahverdi

Persian Carpet is an omnibus film produced by Iran's National Carpet Center and Farabi Cinema Foundation where 15 renowned Iranian directors contributed films on the subject of Persian carpet. Carpets are the reflection of the cultural and historical identity of Iran.

Tuba works daily at a grueling textile factory in Iran, returning home every night to deal with the rest of her problematic family, which includes: a pregnant daughter whose husband beats her regularly; a teenage son, who's been getting into trouble due to his burgeoning career in radical politics; and an older son who goes to great lengths--such as attempting to sell the family's meager house--in order to get an engineering job in Japan as a means of getting out of Iran.

Pari is an honor student in literature and theatre at Tehran University. Attracted to the life of her late brother Asad, an ascetic and devotee to Eastern philosophy, she abandons her usual life and embarks on a journey to find herself and discover who she really is. Her quest upsets her other brother, Dadashi, who disagrees with the ascetic life of Asad and tries to convince Pari to return to literature and theater. Her quest upsets her other brother, Dadashi, who disagrees with the ascetic life of Asad and tries to convince Pari to return to literature and theater

Hamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.

Famed actress Susan Taslimi plays three roles here: Kian, who doubts her identity; Vida, the twin sister, a self-assured artist; and their mother, who gives up one child out of fear of poverty, then deprives the other of affection because she deeply regrets the child whom she has abandoned.

Historia de un alumno que busca la casa de un compañero para devolverle su cuaderno. En la escuela del pueblo de Koker, al norte de Irán, Mohamed no ha hecho los ejercicios en el cuaderno y el profesor le amenaza con la expulsión si vuelve a repetir la misma falta. Esa misma tarde, su compañero, Ahmed, toma por equivocación el cuaderno de Mohamed y cuando decide ir a buscar la casa de su amigo para devolvérselo, se pierde en la noche. Un canto a la solidaridad protagonizada por un niño, capaz de atravesar a pie kilómetros de campos en mitad de la noche por evitar el mal de su compañero.

A satirical comedy about the oddball inhabitants of a Tehran apartment building and their landlord.