Homayoun Ershadi

A prisoner named Ahmed, who has only five days to find the answer to a few riddles in order to survive.

Laleh is a true story of a young woman in post-revolution Iran, struggling against all odds to break through in one of the most male dominated sports worldwide.

A Film By Ali Hazrati

Mahan finds out that he has cancer

A young homeless girl supports herself as a surrogate mother for money. A human rights attorney tries to help her change her life, but ithe challenges seem insurmountable. This is a rarely seen side of Iranian society.

The secret of the worldview of dignity is revealed? This mystery of sleep will spit Marsh, Mahro, Goodarz, Bahram, Jahangir Major Pushis. Jahanbakhsh begins a long journey to prove his innocence and the return of tranquility. A journey that will end the life of many of them.

Four friends run over something after a party in this psychological thriller set in Iran of the empty lives of the middle class when they get together in groups, emotional explosions start happening along moral fault lines.

Inspired by real events, Waiting for Kiarostami focuses on the life of Dorsa, a medical student at Ningbo University in China, who has to choose between her father’s wish for her to become a doctor, and her own passion to become a singer and an actress. When Hossein Khandan nominates Dorsa to play the leading role in Abbas Kiarostami’s next film slated to shoot in China, Dorsa’s mom, who shares her passion for acting and the arts and is unconditionally on Dorsa’s side, becomes an acting coach to help her through the casting process; whereas her father opposes his daughter’s involvement in anything other than her studies. Dorsa faces some challenges in her quest to find a balance between her true passion and her family life.

Mohey is separated from her twin sister and abused after she is plucked from an orphanage as a girl. She becomes trapped in a life of underhand dealings and illegal trading, where her intellect and beauty are used as commodities. When she is coerced into a temporary marriage to secure a deal...

Maryam finds out that her parents are not her biological parents.

Barfa and Nader meet each other and get marry but little by little their life begin to reach it's crisis levels.

Mahia and Reza are a young couple shortly planning to marry. Reza is an architectural engineer and Mahia is his student. An accident in the neighbourhood takes place that changes the course of both their lives.

In an Armenian village, evicted in the result of the Armenian-Azeri conflict, Abgar stays behind all alone in a gradually shrinking enemy ring. He is waiting for his daughter, who became a witness to her husband's murder by an angry mob and was hospitalized with a mental disorder. An Azeri named Ibrahim, offers Abgar to work on the construction of a mosque and promises to find and bring Abgar's daughter instead... A few days later, Ibrahim finds the girl, named Yurga, in one of the psychiatric hospitals of Baku and brings her to Abgar. Abgar wants to leave the village with his daughter, but his skills of a stonemason are still needed for construction of a new mosque. Abgar realizes that this work in the Azerbaijani village will be endless and realizes that he's been trapped.

재정 러시아 치하의 아제르바이잔 청년 알리와 그루지아(조지아) 처녀 니노의 인종과 종교를 초월한 러브 스토리. 아제르바이잔은 1차대전 이후 독립 국가 건설을 시도하나 소비에트 공화국은 이를 용인하지 않으려 하는데....

Three interwoven stories of loneliness and isolation that centre around Janan, a woman from Afghanistan who travels to the UK for artificial insemination. Complications arise when William, a medical sciences student working in the clinic switches the donor's semen for his own.

Sometimes you try to control your surrounding events, but sometimes inadvertent occasions will change the course of your life.

독일 최고의 스파이였으나 지금은 정보부 소속 비밀조직의 수장인 군터 바흐만(필립 세이모어 호프만). 정보원을 미끼 삼아 더 큰 목표물을 제거하는 데 탁월한 재능을 가진 그의 앞에 흥미로운 먹잇감, ‘이사’가 나타난다. 인터폴 지명수배자인 이사는 아버지의 유산을 찾기 위해 함부르크로 밀항한 무슬림 청년. 본능적으로 이사를 쫓기 시작한 군터는 이사를 돕고 있는 인권 변호사 애너벨 리히터(레이첼 맥아덤스)와 유산을 관리하는 은행장 토마스 브루(윌렘 데포)의 존재를 알게 되고, 두 사람을 자신의 정보원으로 섭외하는 데 성공한다. 그리고는 이사를 이용해 테러리스트들의 자금줄로서 각국 정보부의 용의선상에 오른 닥터 압둘라를 체포할 은밀한 작전을 설계하는데...

A drunken, boorish general tyrannises his wife and his maid. When the wife discovers that her husband and the maid are having an affair, she turns the maid out of the house, little realising that the young woman is pregnant with the general's child. Years later, the general is dead, and a younger generation has risen with a new outlook on life and new problems to face... This flamboyantly stylised melodrama, loosely adapted from Ibsen, is the newest work by one of the legendary figures of Iran's New Wave.

A story about a poor girl working in a 5 star hotel in tehran and the workers of the hotel when somthing priceless will stolen...

Two homicide detectives investigates the murder of a woman ...

Dentist Farzad has returned to Iran after many years abroad to escape his anxieties and daily stresses. Farzad is delighted to be reunited with his old friend, Kambiz, who has been his seaside neighbor for years. However, the appearance of a mysterious object scuppers any hopes of a straightforward homecoming. When a doctor, Yasamin, gets dragged into the story, Farzad and Kambiz find their friendship threatened. A tale of chaos and the nostalgia of home, this comedy offers superb performances from its leads.

칠흑같이 어두운 밤, 적외선 안경을 낀 특수부대를 태운 블랙호크 헬기 두대가 파키스탄 국경을 넘어 빈 라덴의 거처 앞마당에 내려앉는다. 빈 라덴을 잡을 생각만으로 이 악물고 버텨온 CIA 요원 마야(제시카 채스테인)가 고대해온 순간이다. 지난 10년간 알 카에다의 연락책이자 빈 라덴의 최측근인 한 남자를 추적하는 일에 매달려 온 그녀는 순수한 열정과 원칙에 따라 작전에 임하지만, 매번 어떤 실마리조차 찾지 못하는 상황에 좌절한다. 어느 날, 단서를 발견하게 된 그녀는 동료들과 함께 거래를 시도하지만 테러리스트들의 자폭 테러로 인해 가장 친한 동료마저 잃게 되는데...

Gandom and Ali, who have been in love since childhood, have to overcome many obstacles to be together.

Rana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transsexual man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same journey and caused to know each other in a better way.

During the war between Iran and Iraq, a scout (Milad Keymaram), in the Abadan Oil Refinery, tries to reveal geographical coordinates of Iraqi soldiers' ambushes for Iranian army forces to kill them easily by bombardments. Meanwhile, he confronts with the soul of the previous killed scout (Mostafa Zamani) who did the same which makes a challenge for him, between his own human deep feelings and killing innocent people of enemy ...

Despite their different characters and beliefs, four persons are obliged to spend two nights and one whole day together as they are going to have their shares after cashing a check.

The story of a professional photographer Hamed Aban and the radical change in his life. The teacher of his son gives him a book about nature and the cleaning of it. This changes him radically. He goes and hires himself in the municipality, wearing the orange suit like them and cleaning the streets, collecting garbage. Meanwhile his wife who is in Europe back home and is very angry with him. She insists on him to get back to his former work but he refusing. Then she wants a divorce and to take the son with herself to Europe.

Sarah is an architect who tries to figure out the best way to treat her boss.

An Iranian horror film.

로마제국이 최후를 맞이하는 격변의 시기, 신의 이름으로 세상을 지배하려는 야망으로 가득찬 이들은 거대 전쟁을 일으킬 준비를 한다. 미모와 지성을 겸비해 모든 남성들의 선망의 대상이 되었던 세기의 여인, 천재 천문학자 히파티아(레이첼 웨이즈)는 전쟁의 소용돌이 속 오직 진리만을 위해 세상과 맞서 싸운다. 한편, 스승 히파티아를 향한 사랑과 야망 사이에서 갈등하는 오레스테스(오스카 아이삭)는 결국 권력을 선택하고, 신의 이름으로 수많은 사람을 전쟁으로 몰아넣는 주교 시릴은 자신의 길을 방해하는 히파티아를 처단하기 위해 온갖 음모를 계략한다. 노예의 신분으로 히파티아를 사랑했지만, 이룰 수 없는 운명 앞에 신을 택했던 다보스(맥스 밍겔라)는 죽음의 위기에 놓인 히파티아를 위해 마지막 순간 가장 비극적인 사랑의 방식을 선택하는데… 과연, 신의 이름으로 세상을 지배하려는 세력과 그에 맞서는 사람들의 역사를 뒤흔든 전쟁의 끝은 어떻게 될 것인가?

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

부유한 집에서 태어난 아미르와 집안 하인의 아들인 하산. 입는 옷도, 하는 일도 모두 다르지만 둘은 모든 것을 뛰어 넘어 둘도 없는 친구로 지낸다. 특히 약한 아미르와는 달리 운동을 곧잘 했던 하산은 아미르 곁에서 한시도 떨어지지 않고 그를 지켜 주는데… 12살이 되던 해 겨울, 둘이 손꼽아 기다리던 연 싸움대회가 열린다. 대회에서 우승해 아버지에게 칭찬을 받고 싶었던 아미르는 하산의 도움으로 우승을 하게 되고, 하산은 “네가 원하면 천 번이라도 연을 찾아올 수 있다”며 떨어진 연을 쫓아 거리로 뛰어 나간다. 하지만 최고로 행복했던 이날, 두 소년에게 돌이킬 수 없는 커다란 사건이 발생한다. 언제나 자신을 지켜주었던 하산과 달리, 자신은 친구를 모른 척 했다는 죄책감에 괴로워하던 아미르는 하산과 거리를 두기 시작하고, 결국 그에게 도둑 누명을 씌워 집에서 내쫓아 버린다. 세월이 흘러 성공한 소설가로 인정을 받은 아미르에게 한 통의 전화가 걸려온다. 그리고 하산과의 우정이 끝났다고 생각했던 것과 달리, 하산은 언제나 자신을 친구로 생각하며 뒤에서 지켜봐 줬다는 사실을 알게 된 아미르. 아미르는 하산과의 우정을 되찾기 위해, 화해와 용서를 구하기 위해 놀랄만한 용기를 발휘하는데…

"From Afar" traces the malaise of a young artist and intellectual in three episodes: Book Burning, Breathing and Dawn. The Young protagonist lives in contemporary Tehran and he appears as a film student, an asthmatic businessman and a successful architect. In each story, he journeys toward a spiritual insight or emotion.

A scientist has to face many hurdles to be able to continue his work.

16 year-old Arash is reaching puberty. After years of living with his mother, he leaves her to live with his father. Once there, he visits a girl who changes his life.

An old engineer who has separated from his wife and son and is living alone receive a phone call from a woman who tells him she wants to commit suicide. This put him to face a challenge.

Five characters are stuck on an island, from where they hope to escape to "somewhere else", the utopia of their dreams. Dr. Tavussi (Ahmad Najafi) offers to help them illegally cross the ...

Fereshteh loses her home and her two sons after her husband's accidental death when Hadj Safdar, her stubborn and powerful father-in-law, forces her to return to her parents. She is faced with the loss of her visitation rights when Hadj plans to send his grandchildren to live in a remote town. With the help of her circle of women friends she tries to take them beyond his reach, but in a patriarchal society it is hard to find a safe haven.

An unknown woman disturbs the marriage of a cinema superstar.

A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his works both inside and outside his homeland.

유년에 대한 책을 쓰기 위해 고향으로 돌아온 유명한 소설가. 그는 이루지 못했던 첫사랑에 대한 기억을 떠올리기 위해 애쓴다. 영화는 효과적인 시각 이미지들의 실험을 통해 끝까지 균형과 섬세함을 잃지 않는다.

"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.

Directed by Tahmineh Milani.