When a large Iranian-American family gathers in NYC for the patriarch’s heart transplant, a family secret is uncovered and catapults the estranged mother and daughter into an exploration of the past
Ahmadi
Babak, an Iranian student in Greece, doesn't show up to welcome his visiting parents at the Athens airport. Pari and her older husband, both devout Muslims abroad for the first time, are ill-prepared to search for their son in an intimidating and alien environment. All their attempts to find a clue that might lead them to him prove to be in vain and they soon reach a dead end. But Pari can't give up looking for him, even when returning to Iran seems like her only choice. Following the steps of her rebellious son in the darkest corners of the city, she will exhaust her inner strength to achieve more than a mother's search for her missing son.
Dr. Hossein Tehrani
Um americano é sequestrado depois que um amigo o convida para ir ao Cairo para falar sobre os recentes levantes de militantes. Sua esposa vai para a cidade após ouvir a notícia, determinada a trazê-lo de volta.
Director
Teerã, 1988. A guerra entre Irã e Iraque ressoa pelo seu oitavo ano. Uma mãe e sua filha ficam pouco a pouco dilaceradas com as campanhas de bombardeio sobre a cidade junto com a sangrenta revolução do país. Lutando diariamente para ficarem juntas em meios aos terrores, u misterioso mal ronda o apartamento onde elas moram.
Ashkan
Mania Akbari’s From Tehran to London (2012), has a Russian-doll structure. It begins with Akbari shooting her latest film entitled Women Do Not Have Breasts about a couple, the young poet and writer Ava and her upper-class older husband Ashkan, who live in a large, beautiful – yet isolated – house in the hilly outskirts of the city. Household workers Maryam and Rahim attend to their needs. But despite their comfortable lives, Ava is increasingly dissatisfied and estranged in her relationship with Ashkan. What seems to have been an exciting relationship in the past is now little more than a series of mutual reproaches, as Ashkan incessantly tries to change Ava into someone she isn’t – a dutiful wife.
Self
A short documentary on the latest film by Mania Akbari titled, From Tehran to London. The film takes a closer look at Akbari’s latest boundary-pushing film that displays females dancing for the first time in Iranian cinema after the revolution. Through the lens of critical analysis with a touch of Freudian psychoanalysis, the documentary comments on how the themes of dance, death, homosexuality, censorship and devastation come to light through the actor’s dialogues and symbols in the film.
Teacher
In a drab, anonymous gray school governed by a strict authoritarian regime, an apparently unremarkable day is turned on its head following a seemingly ridiculous announcement. Disbelieving at first, the all male, identically uniformed pupils are informed that what they had always been taught as fact is no longer true. When the incredulous students speak out, what initially seems laughably absurd becomes desperately real as they are forced to question how far they will go to stand up for their beliefs. Two & Two is an allegory for the absurdness of dictatorship and tyranny - and the resilience of the human spirit.
Cambridge Don
Johnny Worricker é agente da inteligência britânica há muitos anos. Quando seu superior morre, deixa para ele um enigmático documento que revela falhas na organização. Johnny se vê forçado a se afastar de seu trabalho para lidar com essa situação.
Zubaidi's Aide
Bagdá, 2003. Roy Miller (Matt Damon) lidera uma equipe, a serviço da inteligência do exército, em busca de armas de destruição em massa no Iraque. Depois de algumas tentativas frustradas, o militar se vê diante de um cenário caótico entre seus compatriotas, o que o deixa dividido entre aplacar o anseio do governo de encontrar algo que justificasse a invasão ou descobrir a verdade dos fatos.
Abbas
Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship.
Doctor
When young dad, Joe, discovers he's dying, drifter Charlie is given a unique opportunity to turn his life around. A story of family, identity and starting again.
Kamal Nasser
O governo israelense envia uma missão secreta de retaliação para matar onze pessoas ao redor do mundo depois que terroristas palestinos assassinam onze atletas israelenses nas Olimpíadas de Munique em 1972.
Producer
Mania e Bijan são marido e mulher no Irã e tem uma série de discussões a partir de tabus da sociedade iraniana, como o aborto, a amizade e a traição.
The Husband
Mania e Bijan são marido e mulher no Irã e tem uma série de discussões a partir de tabus da sociedade iraniana, como o aborto, a amizade e a traição.
