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Shabnam, a model in Canada, sees her pregnancy as a potential conflict with her career. She also feels that her husband, Amirali, is keen on having a child more than a family. The issue escalates to the point that their original wish of having a child turns into the ultimate problem and results in them losing their jobs, leaving the marriage and Shabnam wants to get an abortion.
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Life creates many obstacles for 12 years old boy - Tedo. Tedo belongs to the generation, which was forced to mass displacement because of the civil war in Abkhazia, one of the most beatiful places in Georgia. The civil war took away everything Tedo had, even hope. The film tells about an extraordinary internal drama of a little boy, his thoughts, feelings, pasions, sorrows and efforts to take arms against the difficulties.
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Years ago, young men enlisted in the army to defend the "Democratic Sect of Azerbaijan", but the sect ruled only one year; Soon, the cult's most influential soldiers and cadres were arrested and deported to Siberia. Now, after sixty years, each of them lives in one of the liberated territories of the Soviet Union and longs to visit his homeland.
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The old tailor, Yolan, just released from an Iranian prison, sets out in search of the village in Turkey where he was born. By his side is Ozal, a 9-year old boy. Together they wander through the mountains of Eastern Anatolia and discover a country whose realities are as fabulous as they are simple.
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Em uma vila de curdos no Iraque, na fronteira entre o Irã e a Turquia e pouco antes do ataque americano contra o país, os moradores locais buscam desesperadamente uma antena parabólica, na intenção de ter notícias via satélite sobre a proximidade da guerra.
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A portrait of the prominent Iranian novelist, whose work dealt with the troubled nature of life within his native country, often due to political upheaval.
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This documentary shows us how a Daf elaborated. It's about a family that all their children are blinded and they're running their family business. They're making Dafs which is an Iranian hand percussion musical instrument and nowadays it's mostly played in Kurdish folk songs.
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During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in his previous films, this Kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people.
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Khosrow and Alireza have a simple single life in Tehran. Someday, the carriage of the one year-old Parisa, which was abandoned at the downhill of a park, happens to stop in front of their house after passing a few blocks. They suppose that she is a foundling so they decide to take care of her. Eventually, the child's mother, Mehri, finds her daughter in their home...
