No Land's Song (2016)

Tunnel 18 (Persian: تونل 18‎‎) is a 1997 Iranian Historical drama film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)

씨민과 나데르 부부는 별거 중이다. 아내 씨민은 딸의 교육을 위해 이민을 떠나고 싶어 한다. 그러나 치매인 아버지를 두고 떠날 수 없었던 나데르는 친정으로 떠난 아내를 대신하여 아버지를 돌봐줄 가정부를 고용한다. 임신 중임에도 가난에 떠밀려 남편까지 속이고 가정부 일을 시작했던 소마예는 어느 날, 나데르의 아버지를 침대에 묶어두고 잠시 외출을 한다. 그 사이 아버지가 위독했음을 알게 된 나데르는 격분하여 소마예를 해고하고 그 과정에서 소마예는 유산을 하고 만다. 이윽고 소마예 부부는 나데르를 살인죄로 고소하고 법정에서 만난 두 가족의 변명과 거짓말이 이어진다.

Arghavan is a woman close to middle age. When she and her husband take the pet dog to the vet, if someone has forced the animal to eat a lot of sweets, which is likely to make him blind.

BREAKING NEWS! 1980년 4월 30일 주 영국 이란 대사관 테러 발생! ‘아라비스탄 해방전선’ 소속 테러범 6명! 억류된 인질 26명! 런던 경찰청 소속 베테랑 협상가 ‘맥스(마크 스트롱)’는 테러범들과 협상을 시작하고, 극적인 순간 마다 위기를 모면하지만…한편에서는 테러범을 완벽하게 제압하기 위한 SAS 공수 특전단이 움직이며 그들을 이끄는 ‘러스티(제이미 벨)’가 언제든 작전이 이뤄질 수 있도록 계획을 세운다.

죽음과 고독의 냄새가 풍겨나는 곳 ‘Bad City’. 한 뱀파이어 소녀가 밤마다 스케이트 보드를 타고 고요한 길거리를 누비지만 도시의 사람들은 알지 못한다. 어느 날, 소녀는 우연히 만난 소년에게서 슬픔을 느끼는데… 외로운 뱀파이어 소녀와 고독한 인간 소년의 핏빛로맨스가 시작된다.

북부 캘리포니아의 한 바닷가. 캐시는(제니퍼 코넬리) 아버지가 30여년동안 돈을 모아 마련한 집에서 이혼의 충격을 딛고 새로운 인생을 모색하며 힘겹게 살아간다. 그러던 어느 날. 일주일 뒤에 집을 찾아오겠다는 엄마의 전화에 아침 잠을 설치던 캐시의 집에 법원직원과 경찰이 들이닥친다. 세금 체납으로 집이 경매로 넘어갔다며 퇴거 명령을 내린다. 캐시는 집이 경매로 넘어가는 것을 막으려 변호사를 찾지만 이란 출신의 이민자 베라니 (벤 킹슬리)가 자신의 전 재산을 털어 그 집을 헐값에 사들인다. 베라니는 전망 좋은 이 집을 수리해 비싼값에 되팔아 재기를 노린다. 그러나 아무도 자신을 도울 수 없는 처지에 놓인 캐시는 레스터(론 엘다드)라는 경찰의 도움으로 집을 다시 찾으려 하지만 집을 둘러싼 싸움은 점차 심해지고, 베라니의 부인 (소레 아그다슬루)과 아들 에스마일(조나단 아두트)까지 혼란에 빠지며 걷잡을 수 없는 파국으로 빠져드는데…

공포의 숙제 검사 시간이 돌아왔다! 이란의 북부 지방, 코케 마을의 한 초등학교. 신나게 떠들던 아이들은 선생님의 출현으로 순간 긴장에 휩싸인다. 바로 숙제 검사 시간. 네마자데는 근심 어린 표정으로 선생님의 동정을 기다린다. 어제 저녁을 사촌의 집에서 보내는 바람에 숙제를 공책에 하지 못한 것이다. 결국 선생님의 꾸중을 들은 네마자데는 울음을 터트리고 짝꿍인 아마드의 마음을 애처롭게 만든다. 방과 후 집에 돌아온 아마드는 숙제를 하기 위해 가방을 여는데 똑같은 모양의 공책이 두 권! 아뿔싸! 실수로 네마자데의 공책을 가져온 아마드의 눈앞에는 선생님께 추궁 당하고 훌쩍이던 친구 네마자데의 모습이 어른거리기 시작한다. 아마 내일 선생님은 네마자데를 창밖으로 던져 버릴 것이다. 결국 착한 아마드는 친구의 공책을 집어들고 집을 나선다. 네마자데가 산다는 마을 포시테를 향해...

In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.

이란의 작은 한 마을, 어딘가로 황급히 발걸음을 옮기던 여인 자흐라(쇼레 아그다쉬루). 마을을 지나는 한 남자(제임스 카비젤)를 발견하고 “당신이 꼭 들어야 할 사실이 있다”며 그를 붙든다. 프랑스 저널리스트인 그는 낯선 사람을 감시하는 마을 사람들의 시선을 피해 간곡한 그녀의 목소리를 녹음기에 담기 시작하는데…

춤추고 놀기 좋아하는 이란계 독일인인 파비스는 늘 사고를 치고 다니는 청년이다. 난민 센터에서 통역 봉사 활동 명령을 받은 파비스. 난민 센터에서 지내는 아몬은 첫날부터 완전히 일을 망치고 울던 파비스에게 다가가고, 두 사람은 함께 시간을 보내며 천천히 가까워진다.

"생각해봐요. 새벽에 막 떠오르는 해를 보는 기쁨, 맑은 샘물에 얼굴을 씻는 상큼함, 보름달이 뜬 밤하늘의 아름다움, 그리고 혀 끝에 감도는 달콤한 체리 향기..."한 남자가 자동차를 몰고 황량한 벌판을 달려간다. 그는 지나치는 사람들을 눈여겨보며 자신의 차에 동승할 사람을 찾는다. 그가 찾고 있는 사람은 수면제를 먹고 누운 자신이 위로 흙을 덮어줄 사람, 돈은 얼마든지 주겠다는 그의 간절한 부탁에도 사람들은 고개를 젓는다. 앳된 얼굴의 군인도, 온화한 미소의 신학도도 ‘죽음’이란 단어 앞에선 단호하게 외면할 뿐. 그런데 드디어 한 노인이 그의 제안을 수락한다.

This eye-opening documentary follows American basketball player Kevin Sheppard during his 2008-09 season playing for a professional team in Iran. Although Kevin is nervous, he makes many friends, including several politically active Iranian women.

THE BRIGHT DAY weaves a story that has its roots in the complexity of Iran’s draconian laws governing capital punishment. A kindergarten teacher hopes to aid the father of one of her young students, a man accused of manslaughter, by convincing each of seven reluctant witnesses to come forward. No one lacks a hidden agenda in this drama in which shades of truth collide with self-interest and the specter of payback. (Gene Siskel Film Center)

이란 북부의 나병 환자 병동에서 촬영한 영화는 범사에 감사하는 종교적 삶을 세상에 넘쳐나는 추함과 대비시킨다.

Hundred to one hundred (Persian: صدبرابرصد‎‎) is a 1995 Iranian film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)

Bright Shadow (Persian: سايه روشن‎‎) is a 1997 Iranian drama film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)

Elevator (Persian: آسانسور‎‎) is a 1995 social drama Iranian film, written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)

1980년. 전쟁을 피해 이란에서 캘리포니아로 넘어온 알리다드는 주변의 따돌림과 문화적 차이로 어려움을 겪지만, 레슬링을 통해 조금씩 마음의 벽을 허물고 미국 생활에 적응하기 시작한다.

Forough is a middle aged woman whose husband has temporarily married with another woman. Even though that was kept secret from her, but his action is considered legal in Iran. Now the husband is in prison, due to not being able to pay second wife’s “Mehrieh” (the bride’s marriage portion).The second wife intends to receive her Mehrieh by asking the court’s permission to sell his house. Forough, the first wife, in order to not lose her home, intends to sell all she has to pay for her husband’s debt and release him from the jail.

Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.

The same day of their marriage, Jean's wife dies of a strange ailment in the middle of surgery. Afflicted by the loss, the young man abandons his medical studies and takes refuge in the memories of his time of courtship. At the same time that this happens, a wave of murders shakes the city with the same pattern of behavior: the victims are surgery students whose bodies have had both hands amputated.

A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide and tries to find the actors who worked on the project.

A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out, the other a lonely but hardworking secretary. Eventually, as cracks form in their passionate relationship, they resort to robbing an aging actress for money.

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

The story of the Dassau family, a family of artists: Frau Dassau is a composer, her husband is a writer, and their children are equally gifted as painters, poets and musicians. But unfortunately, no one wants to invest money in their art. The family is about to starve when Nicole comes up with a marvelous idea: She is going to write the "most scandalous book", the sex memoirs of a teenager. For this, she hides under the pseudonym of Eva. The book becomes an enormous success indeed, but Nicole's parents are decent people, and the public interest in their sluttish daughter begins to bother them. Things begin to get even more unpleasant when Nicole falls in love with an American publisher who'd prefer a virgin…

Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.

I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.

Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.

KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS follows uber myco visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi.

Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.

Abel Hradscheck, the owner of an inn in the Oderbruch country, faces financial ruin. For this state of affairs, Ursula, his wife and former actress, is by no means free of blame. She is a "newcomer" to the area and even after eleven years in the area, still a "stranger". A Cracow company announces that a money-collector is on his way to the innkeeper. Mr. Szulski arrives and the debts are settled - with money supposedly stemming from an inheritance. The next day, Szulski departs but according to the maid and the stable-boy, behaves in a very strange manner. Soon afterwards, his carriage is discovered in the Oder River, but there is no trace of the drowned man. Hradscheck's neighbor starts casting suspicion on the innkeeper. The Counselor of Justice, who heads the investigations has the spot under the pear tree dug out. A dead body is exhumed...

Young Chinese-American filmmaker Wei-ming travels from New York to his childhood home on Lamma Island to make a video documentary about the imminent opening of a Disneyland theme park in Hong Kong. While doing research for the project, he meets Larry, a dancer/choreographer.

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.

1981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing its destiny.

Two screwballs get mixed up with monsters, mad scientists and vampires.

Emma is a teenager when she is the victim of a terrible road accident in London, and needs psychiatric care after she suffers from resulting brain injury. Her mother, Silvia, confines her in the house, and Emma's personality becomes aggressive, leading to a regrettable series of violent deaths.