Mohammad Reza Darvishi

Six Centuries and Six Years is a documentary by Mojtaba Mir Tahmasb. In this documentary, a group of musicians try to retrieve and reread the ballads attributed to Abdul Qader Maraghi, the most prominent musician, theorist, writer and poet of six hundred years ago, based on ancient books and treatises from the history and culture of Iran.

Inside a beat up stadium in Kirkuk, Iraq, live many refugees trying to escape Sadam Hussein's administration. Asu lives with his younger brother who has lost his legs from a landmine. Next door lives Hilin, who has not been able to express her feelings. One of the only sources of happiness for these people who live amid fear of poverty and bombings is soccer. Asu gathers together the Kurdish, Arabs and Turkish in order to hold a soccer match. Although they are of different races, they become close neighbors.

Rahmat travels to a host of islands in a vast salt pan in order to collect the inhabitant's tears for an unknown purpose. He is joined on his mysterious journey by a young boy searching for his father. As their travel nears its end, a potent critique of the Iran's political leadership emerges.

Chakameh who has lost both her husband and child in a car accident meets a guy who recently been released from prison. While she is under pressure from the lawyers to compromise with the arrested driver, the guy told her his story of why getting arrested and then released from prison.

"Lady of the Roses" is the name of the living memory of "Shahindokht Industrial". A lady who went to Laleh-e-Zar region of Kerman before the revolution and replaced flowers with poppies and roses with opium, and reached a point where "Gulab Zahra" changed the agricultural destiny of a region. We hear this story from Homayoun Sanati, Shahin Dokht's wife, three years after his death. The man who is the founder of "Franklin Publications", "Offset Printing House", "Pars Paper Making" and in general one of the rare figures of Iranian culture, industry and management.

Where is Lily? There is a portrait and biography of "Mohammad Reza Darvishi" who has been researching the music of the regions for almost 25 years and has written valuable reference books about it. In this film, Mr. Ahmad Reza Ahmadi, Ehsan Naraghi, Kayhan Kalhor and also the photographer Reza Motarian are always present with him.

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.

A road movie set in Iraq in 2003 during the fall of Saddam. Two Kurds are looking for the parents of a five-year-old boy who has been found in the street in tears. His name is Saddam too. At the same time the boy's parents are looking for him everywhere, worried because of the boy's name which is now taboo. All the attempts of the two Kurds to get rid of the child fail: neither the Americans nor the men of religion at the mosque want him. Little Saddam begins to become a real problem. In the streets and all around them, they are surrounded by the chaos and crazy atmosphere of those days, with violence always on the verge of exploding.

In a small religious town in Iran, Ali After a fight with his father, escapes to the desert where he hears music for the first time in his life: a shepherd who plays Ney. From that moment his life changes forever.

Em pleno regime Talibã no Afeganistão uma menina é obrigada a cortar o cabelo e se vestir como se fosse um menino para ajudar sua família, que é composta apenas de mulheres. A farsa é descoberta na escola, quando percebem que ela está sangrando por entre as pernas.

Após a queda do regime talibã no Afeganistão as mulheres podem voltar a cursar escolas. Uma delas é Noqreh (Agheleh Rezaie), que vai à escola escondida devido a desaprovação de seu pai (Abdolgani Yousefrazi). Na escola é realizado um debate entre jovens que sonham em se tornar presidente do Afeganistão, o que faz com que Noqreh passe a sonhar com a idéia. Entretanto ela precisa lidar com a dura realidade do seu país, que inclui sua cunhada Leylomah (Marzieh Amiri) e o bebê dela, que não tem o que comer.

It is September 11, 2001, and a young man goes missing in New York. Because of his eastern name and his Islamic religion, he is suspected of being involved in the World Trade Center attack. The FBI inquire about him. The neighbors of his family show their disapproval. His family hold out hope that he will be found and exonerated. (Originally appeared as a segment of the omnibus film "11'09"01 - September 11", but later presented as a separate short film.)

Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer differing perspectives on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Nafas (Niloufar Pazira) é uma jovem afegã que fugiu de seu país em meio à guerra civil dos Talibãs e hoje trabalha como jornalista no Canadá. Até que sua irmã mais nova, que ficou no Afeganistão, lhe envia uma carta avisando que irá se suicidar antes da chegada do próximo eclipse solar. Nafas resolve então retornar ao Afeganistão a fim de tentar salvar sua irmã.

Em busca de estudantes e de pessoas interessadas em aprender a ler e escrever, um grupo de professores vaga por uma região de extremo perigo na fronteira do Irã com o Iraque.

Três gerações de mulheres. Todas em confronto com o pecado. A primeira delas é Hava, uma menina de nove anos. No dia do seu aniversário, a mãe a proíbe de sair de casa, pois está se tornando mulher. Se sair, estará pecando. A garota insiste, chorando. A avó, ao se lembrar que Hava nasceu ao meio-dia, permite que ela dê uma última escapada, apenas para despedir-se dos amigos. Uma garota vive para sua bicicleta. E está participando de uma corrida feminina, mas, durante todo o tempo, é perseguida por seus familiares que não aceita que ela seja uma esportista. Se ela persistir em praticar o esporte, considerado por eles um gesto pecaminoso, será expulsa de casa. Num aeroporto, uma senhora de cadeira de rodas se aventura comprando tudo aquilo que nunca pôde ter na vida: geladeira, televisão etc. Pede que tudo seja entregue numa praia, que será seu lar ideal e sua última casa.