Mahmoud Kalari

7-year-old Atta is taken to a fortune teller to identify the thief of her aunt's gold during a ceremony. Atta, who has no idea of the outcome of what she utters in that situation, to get out of that situation, tells everything from her aunt's definitions about Dawood, her other cousin.

Ahmad is a psychiatrist, believing in the treatment of the soul with the medicine in a positivistic and laboratorial way. But when his wife goes missing, he gets involved in his own delusions. Trying hard to find a trace of her, he goes to all of his friends. He desperately tries to act as a very democratic person, giving priority to his wife’s joy and pleasures. He is even willing to show that he would be happy if his wife marries one of his friends since he thinks the other one would be able to make her happier. But it seems that she’s notified that the matter of her happiness is absolutely not dependent on a “man”. Thus he sees that all his scientific beliefs are collapsed…

평범한 40대 가장 사이드는 독실한 신앙심을 가지고 있다. 어느 날 그의 부인이 택시기사에게서 매춘부로 오인받아 성추행을 당한 일이 생기자, 그는 분노에 사로잡혀 복수를 결심한다. 복수할 대상을 물색하면서 다양한 사람들과 다툼이 생기는데 시간이 흐를수록 상황은 안 좋아진다. 결국 길거리에서 매춘을 하는 여자들을 제거해서 사회의 악을 뿌리 뽑겠다는 생각에까지 미치게 되는데... 사실 그에 의해 희생되는 여성들은 단지 가정을 책임질 생활고에 시달리는 사회의 약자일 뿐이다.

A rich family are deciding to immigrate to the USA but the son of the family Manuchehr is plotting to take the money for himself instead and ruins their plan for migration.

A serial killer is going around killing Iran's most beloved filmmakers. Hasan, a blacklisted filmmaker himself, is depressed and wonders: why isn't he being targeted?

Arjang, A 50-year old man, has loved Roya from his childhood years but he has failed to marry her due to some reasons. Roya migrates to the united states with her family due to some social restrictions of 1980s. Arjang who has never forgotten Roya, meets her different times later but each time he fails to marry her again. He has 50 now and is a wealthy man, so he insists Roya to stay in Iran and marry him.

An 18 years old girl comes to Tehran to take a picture with an 8 Billion Tomans Ferrari, but that will put her in some more troubles.

이란의 부통령 닥터 솔라티의 일급 경호원 헤이달 자비히! 부통령을 저격하는 자살 폭탄 테러범을 목격하지만 끝내 놓치고 만다. 정부로부터 공범이 아니냐고 의심을 받게 된 헤이달은 이제 더 큰 위험을 막기 위해, 그리고 자신의 경호원으로서의 임무 완수를 위해 테러 조직을 잡아야만 한다.

A group of students travel to a remote region to participate in a kite-flying event. Next to their camp by the lakeside, they find a restaurant with cooks that treat the students with suspicion. Bizarre events lead to a complicated situation, from which the students cannot escape.

아마드는 4년 째 별거 중인 마리와 이혼하기 위해 파리로 향한다. 오랜만에 찾아 간 그녀의 집에는 전남편 사이에서 낳은 두 명의 딸과, 곧 마리와 결혼하는 사미르, 그리고 사미르의 불만투성이 아들이 있다. 한편, 아마드는 자꾸만 엇나가는 큰 딸 루시에게 사미르의 전 부인이 현재 혼수 상태이며, 그것이 엄마 마리 때문이라는 충격적인 이야기를 듣게 되는데...

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.

An engineer starts to have feelings for a girl named Terme which come to his office for decorating till a young photographer come to Terme's life.

Negar is a married woman who works at a musical company. When she is given an assignment to collaborate with an Iranian expat Orchestra leader, she...

The film tells the story of a coffee shop that has regular customers and this coffee shop is run by a young man. With the arrival of a young woman in this cozy and quiet coffee shop, ...

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.

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.

The uneasy relationship between a mother and daughter is made all the more turbulent by drug abuse in this downbeat drama from Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab

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

A political allegory on four middle-class guys who pile into their car for a ski weekend. A brief stop at a picturesque vista leads to their chance discovery of a prominent rock formation it seems would be oh so easy to tip over, but...

This documentary looks at different aspects of the life of Bahman Farmanara, the well known Iranian film director and producer.

After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant, run by four women, one of them a girl whom he once dated. Attieh, the girl, tries to convince him not to sell the place by, instead of telling him a story a day as Sheherazade, cooking him a delicious dish every day.

어린 소녀 이쉬타르와 그녀의 할아버지이자 수도승인 밥아지즈는 30년마다 열리는 수도승들의 집회에 가는 중이다. 끝도 없이 펼쳐진 모래사막에서 길을 찾는 방법은 그저 간절한 믿음을 가지는 것 뿐이다. 쉴 새 없이 모래 바람이 부는 사막에서 이쉬타르와 밥아지즈는 만남과 헤어짐, 사랑과 이별, 삶과 죽음의 순간들을 겪는다.

Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers.

Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers.

아름다운 여인과의 애틋한 로맨스를 꿈꾸는 1등석의 노신사와 무례하고 안하무인인 2등석의 노부인, 그리고 꿈에 그리던 챔피언스 리그 축구 경기를 보러 간다는 흥분에 들뜬 3등석의 열혈 축구팬 소년들의 왁자지껄한 여행담.

The story of four soldiers who on a Friday go to the city with their commander. But this Friday is different and brings many troubles for them which changes them forever.

An old Iranian man disappears while searching for a friend who's been dead ten years, so his agitated daughter enlists her estranged husband to look for him; the husband puts his foot down at first but soon finds himself cruising the streets of Tehran with his best friend, searching for the old rascal and cursing all the way.

A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…

Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at night with a call girl. The next morning at the hospital where he works, he is shown a comatose boy who is famous for having memorized the entire Koran. These two events cause him to rethink his cynical outlook on life and his relationships with his elderly father, wayward son, and the women he has mistreated since becoming estranged from his wife. When the boy awakens from his coma, Dr. Sepidbakht begins to look to him for answers.

An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.

Ali Mashreghi is a writer whose wife has been murdered after the night of his bitter fight with his wife. He is arrested and there is only one woman who can help him in the court of law.

An anthology directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Testing Democracy) and Dariush Mehrjui (Dear Cousin is Lost)

테헤란에서 약 700km 떨어진 조그만 쿠르드족 촌락 마을 ‘시아 다레’에 베흐자드라는 남자가 동료 몇 명과 함께 도착한다. 그는 마을의 소년 파자드에게 길을 물어보고 둘은 점점 친해진다. 마을에 백 살 먹은 할머니의 죽음과 관련된 취재를 하러 온 것처럼 보이는 베흐자드를 마을 사람들은 전화국에서 온 수리공으로 생각하고 '엔지니어'라고 부른다. 베흐자드와 동료는 할머니가 3일 이내에 죽을 것으로 생각했으나 2주일이 지났는데도 아무 일이 일어나지 않는다. 급기야 동료들은 마을을 떠나게 되는데...

On the eve of his first show, rock musician Siavash (Ali Ghorbanzadeh) makes a pilgrimage to the grave of his late father, killed during the Iran-Iraq War. But soon thereafter, a friend reveals that Siavash's father is still alive, a POW being held in Tehran. With the help of his girlfriend (Hedyeh Tehrani), Siavash struggles to make sense of the news. Saman Moghadam wrote and directed this portrait of young Iranians in the aftermath of war.

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.

Hasti, a widowed nurse who has a daughter, marries a paranoid wealthy man.

For his directorial and writing debut, cinematographer Mahmoud Kalari turns to his most familiar subject: filmmaking. A small crew from Tehran is filming in the countryside. Just when they are ready to shoot the final scene, the weather refuses to cooperate. As if that’s not enough of a problem, the lead actor suddenly abandons the shoot to attend to a family emergency. How far will the filmmakers go to accomplish their mission? Having worked on dozens of productions as a cinematographer, Kalari reflects on the absurd and comical situations that befall filmmakers in this charming picture (on which he also served as cinematographer).

아내는 아이를 낳을 수 없지만 시어머니의 압박은 심해지기만 한다. 견디다 못한 그녀는 남편에게 두 번째 아내를 얻으라고 설득하기 시작한다.

A semi-autobiographical account of Makhmalbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.

양탄자 가베를 냇물에 씻고 있는 노부부(후세인 모하라미 분/로게이 모하라미 분). 가베에는 말 위에 앉아있는 남녀가 수놓아져 있고 그림을 향해 말을 걸자 물속에 잠진 가베 위로 젊은 여자가 나타나 가베에 얽힌 자신의 가족과 사랑 이야기를 들려준다. 철에 따라 거처를 옮겨 다니는 유목민의 딸인 가베(상하예 드조다트 분)는 양탄자를 뜻하는 '가베'와 이름이 같다. 그녀는 자신의 뒤를 그림자처럼 쫓으며 늑대 울음 소리로 구애하는 기사와 사랑에 빠진다. 그러나 가베의 아버지는 그녀의 삼촌이 결혼할 때까지 결혼을 허락할 수 없다고 하자 가베의 양탄자는 점점 어두운 빛으로. 한편, 시인이자 교사인 가베의 삼촌 사야히(아바스 사야 분)는 식구들과 살기 위해 도시 생활을 마감하고 고향으로 돌아와 아이들에게 양탄자 가베를 이루는 빛깔의 의미를 가르쳐주며 살아간다. 그러던 어느 날 그는 시냇가에서 카나리아처럼 노래부르는 반려자를 만나 결혼하나 가베의 아버지는 그녀에게 그녀의 어머니가 아이를 낳을 때까지 기다리라며 또한번 결혼을 허락하지 않는다. 결국 가베는 삼촌의 묵인 아래 말을 타고 온 그 기사를 따라 가족으로부터 도망치게 되고 가베의 아버지는 총을 들고 쫓아가서 그들을 쏜다. 노부부가 양탄자 가베를 씻는 장면이 다시 보이고 할머니가 된 가베는 그때 아버지는 도망치는 자신들을 죽이지 않았다고 말한다. 그저 소문일 뿐, 여동생들이 자기처럼 더 이상 늑대의 부름에 대답하지 못하도록 엄포를 놓은 것이라고 하는데...

A man who is a news reporter is going to Germany from America to meet his son who is living there. There he tells his son that he is divorced now. The father is pick pocket by two guys.

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.

Ravaged physically and psychologically by the war, sergeant Rostam Darre Kalaye is retired to go back to his family in the northern part of Iran. During his long absence, his wife Golbakht and their son had to work in sergeant brother's auto service. Initially delighted by return of her husband, Soon Golbakht finds her husband a stranger.

Khosrow and Alireza have a simple single life in Tehran. Someday, the carriage of the one year-old Parisa, which was abandoned at the downhill of a park, happens to stop in front of their house after passing a few blocks. They suppose that she is a foundling so they decide to take care of her. Eventually, the child's mother, Mehri, finds her daughter in their home...

Three episodes, all with relatively similar plots about a love triangle between a woman and two men.

The film progresses along two distinct but interwoven series of events. The first series involves young members of a family who have gathered round their old mother and revive their common childhood memories. the second line focuses on the old woman's preparations for her last journey and her joyous cooperation in arranging for the ceremonies that are to be observed after her death.

Tehran, 1948. A young Jewish couple, Danial and his wife Munes, decide to immigrate to the recently founded state of Israel. But their application is rejected on the ground of the documents against Danial's uncle, Yaghub, how is suspected of betrayal. A Zionist agent, named Yezghel, finds out Yaghub's home and stabs him. One of Yaghub's neighbours who witnesses the crime is blamed for murder. Fearing for their lives, Munes and Danial escape to the north of Iran in order to leave the country. The Neighbour's brother, Nuri, a journalist, sets off on their heels to bring them to the court to give testimony on his brother's innocence.

When a British officer is found dead on a pipeline, tensions rise between a local tribe and authorities.

The arrival of a German tracking dog at the customs pier, which is by no means negotiable, has disrupted the order of the city. Major tells the story of a man in Bushehr who feels responsible for his son for the first time in several years.