Hosein Mahdavi

Meysam and Tina have just married and are renting a new building. One day they start washing the car in the parking lot and a few hours later they find out that it has fallen down. They have doubts whethet to tell the truth or hide it from their neighbors, and conflict between them to find the culprit ensues. Then they discover more serious problems.

Heavy snow falls from the sky as heavily-armed guards patrol the walls of an Iranian centre of correction and rehabilitation. Inside, the girls are waiting at the food counter. Among them are underage mothers and others who are married. All of them ended up here after becoming involved in crime. Drug dealing, assault, murder. Yet instead of cold-blooded criminals we discover friendly, warm young people who laugh, sing and cry together. Their close bonds have been forged by the troubled past they share. We learn of their fears of having to return to the lives they once left behind. The documental camera is intimate but respectful, the resulting portraits are full of dignity.

Narra la historia de la opresión iraní bajo el prisma de una mujer. Noora se siente prisionera en su propio país. No puede desarrollar su profesión como abogada e intenta hacer todo lo posible para poder salir del país e iniciar su vida en otro lugar. Para esto, tendrá que asumir ciertos sacrificios que complicarán su vida de una manera inesperada.

Narra la historia de la opresión iraní bajo el prisma de una mujer. Noora se siente prisionera en su propio país. No puede desarrollar su profesión como abogada e intenta hacer todo lo posible para poder salir del país e iniciar su vida en otro lugar. Para esto, tendrá que asumir ciertos sacrificios que complicarán su vida de una manera inesperada.

Against the violent yet stunning backdrop of the Qandil Mountains, a film that asks the most basic yet painful of questions about war, love, and lost ones.

A man enters a bar, sits and observes, not speaking. Gradually, the silent presence of the stranger disturbs the other customers.

Bajo la estatua del Buda que destruyeron los talibanes, aún viven miles de familias. Baktay, una niña afgana de seis años, es incitada a ir a la escuela por el hijo de sus vecinos que lee los alfabetos frente a su cueva. De camino a la escuela, es acosada por unos niños que juegan de forma cruel reflejando la sociedad tan violenta que los envuelve. Los niños pretenden lapidar a Baktay, o destruirla como el Buda, o disparar contra ella como hicieron los americanos en el laberinto de cuevas. ¿Será capaz Baktay de superar estos obstáculos para poder aprender los alfabetos en su lengua materna?

A look at the reasons why every year 70,000 Iranians have a nose job.

In the midst of a mid-life crisis Jan, a 40 year old dancing teacher, decides to instigate a revolution against himself. His first act is to summon each of his four lovers, who are unaware of each other, to join him at the dance studio where we assume he is a tutor. His revelations to the women prompt a discourse about love and the fleeting nature of happiness. But when he comes to the fourth and final woman, he finds that his own philosophy of love is not as easy to apply as he had presumed. He realizes that the more the contemporary world has become sexually oriented the farther it has moved away from love...

For forty years, Esfandiar has been unconcernedly preparing corpses for the journey to their final resting place. One day, whilst preparing a burial service, he's taken ill. Might he too be mortal?

In a small religious town in Iran, Ali After a fight with his father, escapes to the desert where he hears music for the first time in his life: a shepherd who plays Ney. From that moment his life changes forever.

Bajo el opresivo régimen talibán, la madre de una muchacha de 12 años, médico de profesión, pierde su empleo en un hospital y las dos mujeres, así como la abuela, se convierten en auténticas prisioneras en su propia casa, ya que no pueden abandonarla sin un «acompañante legal» y tienen prohibido trabajar fuera para ganarse la vida. La madre y la abuela urden un plan: le cortarán el pelo a la chica y cambiarán su indumentaria, para que parezca un muchacho. Asustada ante la posibilidad de que se descubra su secreto, la joven –que ha adoptado el nombre de Osama– empieza a trabajar para un tendero del vecindario, que fue amigo de su padre. Pero pronto llega a la edad de tener que acudir a la escuela islámica, y allí será más difícil ocultar su verdadera identidad.

A shocking portrait of the world of a recently captured serial killer, who sees his killing of prostitutes as in accordance with Islamic teaching. Over the space of a year, 16 women were murdered in the Iranian city of Mashad. Because the victims were lured into the killer's traps, the press soon called these the "spider killings." All but one of the victims had previously been arrested for prostitution and drug-related crimes. When a 39-year-old contractor is arrested and confesses to the crimes, he claims divine support for his crimes. His mother, wife, son, and many neighbors agree. AND ALONG CAME A SPIDER visits with the families of the victims, with the perpetrator and his family, and with prostitutes in this holy city. Most chillingly, the killer's son proudly re-enacts a murder, and suggests that he wants to grow up to be like his father. This is a chilling film about cycles of moral vengeance.

This documentary shows us how a Daf elaborated. It's about a family that all their children are blinded and they're running their family business. They're making Dafs which is an Iranian hand percussion musical instrument and nowadays it's mostly played in Kurdish folk songs.

Un extraño suceso ocurrió en una prisión al noreste de Irán en 1998. El jefe de la prisión escogió a un hombre de 34 quien había sido sentenciado repetidas veces durante su juventud para casarse con una mujer sentenciada a cadena perpetua.

Documentary by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, an Iranian female director. This film portrays two aspects of the Iranian presidential election of 2001.

Defiant young director Hanna seems to be forced into an arranged marriage in America. Arranging anything for this talented, head-strong woman was their first mistake.