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)

Simin deseja mudar-se para garantir um futuro melhor para a família, mas seu marido Nader não quer por causa do pai doente. Ela entra com um pedido de separação e Nader contrata Razieh para cuidar de seu pai enquanto trabalha. Certo dia ao voltar para casa encontra o pai sozinho, desmaiado e amarrado à cama; Razieh aparece e os dois discutem, na sequência Nader empurra a mulher e dias depois, é notificado que Razieh estava grávida e teria perdido o bebê. Os dois terão que resolver a situação na justiça, e tem pontos de vista muito diferentes do que aconteceu durante a briga.

Arghavan, uma mulher à beira da meia-idade, e seu marido levam seu cachorro ao veterinário. Eles percebem que alguém forçou o cachorro a comer muitos doces e agora provavelmente ficará cego. Arghavan não quer mais ficar com o cachorro, então eles precisam encontrar um lugar para ele. Ela tenta matar o cachorro e quando o marido descobre isso, um segredo se revela: o chefe da mulher a estuprou enquanto o cachorro estava testemunhando. A mulher fica arrasada, mas não consegue matar o cachorro.

Em abril de 1980, uma série de homens armados invadem a embaixada iraniana localizada em Princes Gate, na cidade de Londres. Eles fazem todos de refém e durante os seis dias seguintes, um impasse tenso acontece. Um grupo de soldados altamente treinados se prepara para uma invasão nunca vista antes no mundo.

Coisas estranhas acontecem em Bad City. Uma cidade fantasma iraniana, lar de prostitutas, viciados, cafetões e outras almas sórdidas. Um reduto de depravação e falta de esperança, onde uma vampira solitária persegue os habitantes mais repugnantes. Mas quando um garoto conhece uma garota, uma história de amor incomum começa a florescer... vermelha como o sangue.

Duas pessoas travam uma disputa até às últimas conseqüências. De um lado está Kathy (Jennifer Connelly), jovem que sofre profunda depressão após ter sido abandonada pelo marido. Por um erro do governo, ela é expulsa da casa em que morava. Inconformada, contrata um advogado para recuperar o que ela acredita ser o último símbolo de sua sanidade. Do outro lado está Massoud Amir Behrani (Ben Kingsley), imigrante iraniano que comprou a casa de Kathy em leilão, o que para ele é a oportunidade de dar conforto à mulher e ao filho e de recuperar o padrão de vida que tinham no Irã.

Um menino de oito anos pegou por engano o caderno do amigo. Agora, precisa devolvê-lo para evitar que o amigo seja expulso da escola se não levar o dever de casa.

Maziar Bahari é um jornalista iraniano que trabalha para a revista americana Newsweek e vive em Londres, ao lado da esposa grávida. Ele é enviado para cobrir as eleições presidenciais no Irã em 2009, onde o atual presidente Mahmoud Ahmadinejad corre o risco de não se reeleger. Após uma vitória folgada de Ahmadinejad, rumores de que a eleição teria sido fraudada provocam diversas manifestações populares, algumas repelidas com violência pela polícia local. Bahari consegue filmar um destes ataques e veicula o material para ser divulgado mundo afora, o que o transforma em alvo do governo iraniano. Preso por tempo indeterminado, ele passa a ser torturado para que confesse que estava agindo em nome de uma conspiração ocidental para derrubar o presidente iraniano

A drama set in 1986 Iran and centered on a man, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village and enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant had a tragic ending.

Parvis, filho de exilados iranianos, leva a vida que pode na sua pequena cidade natal, entregando-se à cultura pop, encontros no Grindr e raves. Depois de ser apanhado roubando uma loja, é condenado a trabalho comunitário num centro de refugiados, onde conhece os irmãos Banafshe e Amon, que fugiram do Irão. Quando uma atração romântica cresce entre Parvis e Amon, a frágil relação entre os três é posta à prova.

Badii é um homem de boa condição financeira que decide suicidar-se. Planeja tomar vários remédios e deitar num buraco que cavou na montanha. Preocupado com o que pode acontecer a seu corpo, e pensando na possibilidade de o suicídio falhar, Badii começa a procurar entre trabalhadores pobres alguém confiável para ajudá-lo.

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)

Documentário sobre uma colônia de leprosos situada no norte do Irã.

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)

Em 1980, um adolescente escapa da agitação no Irã e enfrenta ainda mais hostilidade na América, devido à crise dos reféns. Determinado a se adaptar, ele se junta à equipe de wrestling da sua escola.

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.