In a small village outside Sanandaj, 60-year-old Maryam is waiting for her son Farhad's return from military service. One day, Farhad turns up at her door, wearing a chador, and tells her that he is now living as a woman.
Ferhat Xani
Rojda, nativa do Curdistão iraquiano e soldado do exército alemão, viaja para um campo de refugiados na Grécia onde consegue encontrar sua mãe, que tem más notícias sobre sua irmã Dilan.
Zin
The story is set in a tiny Kurdish village. Isa’s younger brother is murdered and brought back to his hometown. Two weeks after the funeral, his mother Zîn dreams of giving a wedding celebration for her deceased son. This strange idea sparks off a host of contradictory feelings within her, and between her and Isa and family members, who are still reeling from the trauma and grief of losing a brother. The family gradually proceeds into a grey area in their relationship. These ordinary people find themselves living in a psychological minefield wrestling on the planes between logic, norms, emotions, and irrationality.
Noushin is a single mother who lives by her girl alone and has a peaceful life but when a foreign guy enters their life everything changes for them and new secrets reveal.
Bibi
Leila é uma mãe solteira que trabalha duro para sustentar seus dois filhos no Irã durante a crise. Ela tem a oportunidade de melhorar de vida caso aceite o pedido de casamento de Kazem, mas ele exige que ela envie seu filho Amir para longe, pois ele tem uma filha e a tradição desaprova uma jovem compartilhando a casa com seu meio-irmão. Ao ser demitida, Leila decide aceitar a proposta e deixar Amir sob os cuidados de um internato até encontrar uma solução para trazê-lo de volta para casa.
Mahtab and Ava are classmates in their second year of college studying engineering. The story begin when they and other classmates go on a trip to Esfahan.
Kejal's Mother
Risking their life, they climb on narrow mountain paths every day, carrying 40 kg of goods on their back. Every mistaken step may chance upon a landmine. They are hunted like wild animals. And in the name of what? To earn just 10 dollars a day!?
Taher Mohebi is a well-known writer who, after witnessing a violent murder, breaks down and spends three years in a mental institution. After release he is told that things are just as they were before, but his relentless hallucinations make him want to return to the institution.
Khale Khanoom
Nava tries to convince her sister to get back with her husband, while her own fiance is cheating on her.
The story of life of a musician who plays traditional music and comes to Tehran for a living but after a while he is absorb and begins to play in a rock band.
Shirin is a woman facing problems in her marriage and with her child. She's trying desperately for a way to connect with her son and her husband.
Aseke's Mother
A group of young people are trying to teach Kurdish in Turkish Kurdistan, a land where the teaching of the language is forbidden by Turkish authorities. Part of their work is to print clandestine schoolbooks in underground schools and distribute them. One of the girls in the group, Aseke, is killed on a mission and her friends decide to carry out the final request she made in her will. She had been brought up with a black horse, now in the remote Anatolian mountains, and her request is to bring the horse back so that they might meet one last time before she is buried. The arrival of the horse leads to some unexpected events.
Akram
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.
Mam's wife
An elderly radio-operator travels across Kurdestan in the war-torn 80s assuring communication between lost families.
An artist's life who lives in a village of Kurdistan,Iran has been changed because his nephew enters to the village.
Javid is a medical student who's afraid of the dead bodies. In a funeral he meets Mahya, who is a nurse in the hospital he works. This meeting changes his life.
A documentary from the point of view of an 75 years old man about the history of Melli bank of Iran and it's first days.
In an unspecified dystopia, a tyrant rules with an iron fist. To maintain control over the people, he employs 'Dasdaran', dangerous, scythe-wielding warriors who obey his orders without question or qualm. But at last the day has come where a hero will rise from the masses to challenge the Dasdaran and free his people from subjugation and slavery. The only problem is that this hero is completely incompetent.
A cop hunts a serial killer.
A welder discovers his wife has disappeared. He sets out to look for her.
A group of youngsters participate in a race match and endure the difficult route of this race just to be hired in the Environmental Protection agency of Tehran.
Rana's Mother
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.
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.
Maryam
Four years after breaking up, Mahmood meets Yasaman on the day of her father's funeral, just after the latter has returned back from abroad. Mahmood has met Mina a year after his and ...
A girl has heart disease and looks for a heart transplant.
Banafsheh and her grandmother went to visit her mother’s grave. On the train back home, they meet a teacher with whom she hits if off immediately. The teacher promises the young girl to call, but the phone call never comes.
Murder's Mother
About a man accused of murder who is silent and plays only with a button.
