The Mother
마흔 나이의 여자 레일라는 부모와 네 명의 형제를 돌보느라 여념이 없다. 집안의 남자들은 각자 먹고 사느라 열심이지만 그 누구도 가난에서 벗어나지 못한다. 형편이 좋지 못한 데도 아버지는 가문의 수장이 되는 꿈을 버리지 못한다. 일정한 재산을 갖다 바쳐야 수장이 될 수 있기에 아버지는 가족 몰래 감춰둔 금을 팔려고 한다. 레일라는 가족 모두가 먹고 살 수 있는 가게를 운영하는 꿈을 꾸지만 아들들의 생각은 다르다. 일확천금을 노리는 아들들 때문에 레일라의 꿈도, 아버지의 꿈도 산산조각 난다.
A man, who has some kind of a disease and eats a lot, enters a poor and large family to marry their mother.
Rahman (Parviz Parastuyi) falls in love with a Christan woman from Lebanon. She was a Christan but she becomes Muslim before her second meeting with Rahman. So he decides to marry her.
Niloofar is a twelve-year-old girl whose dream is to read and write, but she lives in a village where education is only for boys. Her mother, a well-known midwife, insists that Niloofar become her apprentice. While assisting her mother during a delivery, Niloofar meets a feminist woman who undertakes to teach her in secret. Unfortunately, in exchange of a palm tree field, Niloofar's father promises her in marriage to an older man once she becomes a woman. Horrified by this notion, Niloofar does everything in her power to postpone her first periods. Eventually, the inevitable occurs. HOwever, Niloofar, who is determined to keep her freedom as long as possible, arranges to conceal the fact from her family for another two years until the truth can no longer be hidden. Then, rather than live in a marriage without love, Niloofar runs away with her friend. Shocked, her family considers itself dishonored and sends her step-brother to track her down
A mother and wife is on the brink of an attack. Hengameh Tahareh Ghaziani lives with her husband, her son and daughter in a middle class neighborhood, and spends his days taking care of their needs.
As the days of several different people unfold, their separate lives are about to become linked by a tragic car crash which kills two women. Affected by their involvement in the accident in different ways, neither Amir or Mr Naseri will ever be the same again. How will the tragedy affect their relationships with those around them in this absorbing drama? Written by IMVBox.com
A mother's courage, hardship, and love, in times of war. In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, Gilane escorts her pregnant daughter, Maygol, from the relative calm of their village, Espili, into war-torn Tehran to search for Maygol's husband, Rahman. The journey is arduous and what they find when they reach the capital is dismaying and frightening. Fifteen years later, as another war begins in Iraq, Gillane is at home caring for her son Ismael, who suffers from epilepsy, a byproduct of war. As she cares for him, she hopes for a visit from the doctor and from another daughter, Atefah. "Better be a dog than a mother," she says.
Forough Kia is a film-maker who got divorced from her husband many years ago and now is living with her son Maani. She decides to make a documentary about perfect mothers. In order to do so she meets many mothers to chose the perfect mother among them. She finally decides to quit making this film because of tiredness but doctor Rahbar wants her to continue. Maani is teasing her every day preventing her from marrying doctor Rahbar but she finally decides that she wants to marry him.
An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to abandon the relationship with the poor girl, the old man makes his final choice of love.
A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law.
