Crazy Rook (2015)

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.

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.

Baseado nos diários do poeta iraniano Sadegh Kamangar, acompanhamos a história do poeta Sahel e de sua esposa Mina, injustamente encarcerados durante a Revolução Islâmica. Após 30 anos terríveis de prisão, Sahel é libertado e descobre que Mina havia deixado o país para a Turquia, acreditando que o amado havia morrido. Um fantasma danificado dele mesmo, Sahel parte para Istambul em busca da mulher que ele ama, e sua viajem revela-se uma jornada através da escuridão de sua história. Tecida a partir de seus poemas, as palavras que seguem Sahel são a sua salvação e maldição ao mesmo tempo. Será que ele vai encontrar Mina? Será que eles vão aprender a viver de novo?

A sensation when released in 1999 in Iran, Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic. Tahimine Milani creates this scathing portrait of those traditions - aided by official indifference - which conspire to trap women and stop them from realizing their full potential; the inclusion of frank depictions of domestic violence was hailed by many as a breakthrough in dealing with a long taboo subject.

Spanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young midwife, Mitra, who is serving her sentence for killing her mother's abusive husband. In the early years, Mitra is repeatedly punished as the warden tries to break her. This includes punishment for delivering a baby in the prison cell while all of the prison staff has taken shelter during an Iraqi bombing. The warden's attitude starts to change after 8 years, when Mitra tries to protect a new inmate from rape at the hands of her older cellmates. When the baby comes back in 1991 as a 17 year old delinquent, Sepideh, the warden respects Mitra enough to protect the girl.

A young man steals a smuggler's goods and tries to sell them in a trip with his beloved to the border.

A 15-year-old Somalian boy meets a 40-year-old Iranian man in a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them, they decide to take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer.

Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?

A man, who has some kind of a disease and eats a lot, enters a poor and large family to marry their mother.

Bita (Hatami), a successful lawyer specializing in championing the cause of women’s rights in divorce cases, is blind to the trouble brewing in her own marriage. A snatch of gossip and a problem client with an unwanted pregnancy unexpectedly bring Bita’s problems home. (Gene Siskel Film Center)

Princess of Rome, Mellika, granddaughter of Great Caesar. The story talks about her move from Byzantium in the 9th century, to avoid her marriage with Krytos, and brings her to Baghdad to become the mother of Imam Mahdi, the Savior.

The advocate for a young Iranian refugee held in detention. Amir Ali claims to be an Iranian student persecuted by the government but the Department of Immigration dispute his identity. When Julia meets Amir, he is severely depressed and close to deportation. Julia throws herself obsessively into Amir's case, causing friction between Julia and her husband, Peter. Julia eventually frees Amir and the young Iranian man moves in with Peter and Julia. As Julia helps Amir adjust to ordinary life, she finds herself increasingly attracted to this handsome, damaged young man. But she also starts to see the subtle cracks in Amir's story. Is he really who he claims he is? Or does he have a darker, more dangerous history?

After having medical problems, and after a long time, Mina becomes pregnant, but she feels ignored by her husband, Hesam. Since he has become concerned and involved with the personal and family problems of his colleague Shirin, who has recently divorced from her husband...

Behzad, who has been in prison for manslaughter for a long time, has a son who does not know about him. When he is introduced, the son goes through a conflict. Then, as a family, they go to the victim's family seeking consent so Reza would be released.

Mohammad is sent to an apartment situated in uptown Tehran to install their satellite dishes, while having satellite TV is illegal in Iran. He arrives there with a girl named Shirin who seems to be his girlfriend and is in need of some money to repair her father's car with which she has had an accident the day before. Each of the house's residents have their own fish to fry and they also want their satellites installed as soon as possible.

A textile factory worker struggles to keep his life together after his life is shrouded in controversy by his wife’s death. He is revered by his co-workers and at constant threat from his wife’s brother, seeking retribution for her death.

This twisted Iranian narrative follows a mysterious couple from Tehran as they distribute large bags of money in an impoverished mountain border town. Beginning as a black comedy, the film's mood transforms as the games played by Kaveh (director Mani Haghighi) and Leyla (Taraneh Alidoosti) become increasingly perverse, as they find inventive ways of humiliating the recipients of the cash. The immorality of the central characters is at times sickening, and their chain of lies is often as puzzling to us as they are to the townsfolk depicted onscreen. What is the relationship between the pair and why are they giving away money to the needy? Modest Reception has no easy answers nor pat resolutions - instead Haghighi takes the viewer on an intriguing ride into the dark recesses of the human spirit.

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)