Mahmoud Kalari

7-year-old Atta is taken to a fortune teller to identify the thief of her aunt's gold during a ceremony. Atta, who has no idea of the outcome of what she utters in that situation, to get out of that situation, tells everything from her aunt's definitions about Dawood, her other cousin.

Ahmad is a psychiatrist, believing in the treatment of the soul with the medicine in a positivistic and laboratorial way. But when his wife goes missing, he gets involved in his own delusions. Trying hard to find a trace of her, he goes to all of his friends. He desperately tries to act as a very democratic person, giving priority to his wife’s joy and pleasures. He is even willing to show that he would be happy if his wife marries one of his friends since he thinks the other one would be able to make her happier. But it seems that she’s notified that the matter of her happiness is absolutely not dependent on a “man”. Thus he sees that all his scientific beliefs are collapsed…

Saeed, the most common man in his 40s, has a devout devotion. One day his wife is accosted by a driver who assumes she is a prostitute. Seething with rage, Saeed seeks revenge.

A rich family are deciding to immigrate to the USA but the son of the family Manuchehr is plotting to take the money for himself instead and ruins their plan for migration.

O cineasta iraniano Hasan está triplamente frustrado: ele está proibido de trabalhar, sua musa, a atriz Shiva, tem trabalhado com outros diretores, e sua vida em casa também está péssima, já que ele vive discutindo com a esposa e sua mãe está cada vez mais sem noção da realidade. E o pior de tudo é que um assassino em série está atacando os melhores cineastas do país, mas Hasan continua intacto. Então, ele começa a se perguntar: por que o melhor diretor de cinema de todos está sendo completamente ignorado pelo criminoso?

Arjang, A 50-year old man, has loved Roya from his childhood years but he has failed to marry her due to some reasons. Roya migrates to the united states with her family due to some social restrictions of 1980s. Arjang who has never forgotten Roya, meets her different times later but each time he fails to marry her again. He has 50 now and is a wealthy man, so he insists Roya to stay in Iran and marry him.

An 18 years old girl comes to Tehran to take a picture with an 8 Billion Tomans Ferrari, but that will put her in some more troubles.

A government bodyguard protects a politician from a suicide bomber, and then begins to question his dedication to his job.

A group of students travel to a remote region to participate in a kite-flying event. Next to their camp by the lakeside, they find a restaurant with cooks that treat the students with suspicion. Bizarre events lead to a complicated situation, from which the students cannot escape.

Este drama mostra a ruína da relação entre um marido iraniano e sua esposa francesa, vivendo na Europa. Após muitas disputas, ele abandona a família e os dois filhos para retornar ao seu país de origem. Quando a esposa pede o divórcio oficial, ele descobre que o pedido é motivado pelo fato de ela ter conhecido outro homem. Assim, sem demoras, ele retorna ao lar para confrontar a esposa e o novo pretendente dela.

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.

An engineer starts to have feelings for a girl named Terme which come to his office for decorating till a young photographer come to Terme's life.

Negar is a married woman who works at a musical company. When she is given an assignment to collaborate with an Iranian expat Orchestra leader, she...

The film tells the story of a coffee shop that has regular customers and this coffee shop is run by a young man. With the arrival of a young woman in this cozy and quiet coffee shop, ...

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

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.

The uneasy relationship between a mother and daughter is made all the more turbulent by drug abuse in this downbeat drama from Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab

A scientist has to face many hurdles to be able to continue his work.

A political allegory on four middle-class guys who pile into their car for a ski weekend. A brief stop at a picturesque vista leads to their chance discovery of a prominent rock formation it seems would be oh so easy to tip over, but...

This documentary looks at different aspects of the life of Bahman Farmanara, the well known Iranian film director and producer.

After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant, run by four women, one of them a girl whom he once dated. Attieh, the girl, tries to convince him not to sell the place by, instead of telling him a story a day as Sheherazade, cooking him a delicious dish every day.

Inicia-se com a história de um dervish de nome Baba Aziz e sua neta espiritual, Ishtar. Juntos eles percorrem o deserto à procura de uma grande reunião de dervishes que ocorre uma vez a cada 30 anos. Tendo a fé como único guia, os dois viajam por vários dias pela imensidão. Para ajudar a suportar a viagem, Baba Aziz passa a contar histórias do príncipe do deserto que contemplava sua alma ao lado de uma pequena piscina. Conforme a história é contada, os viajantes encontram outros viajantes que também contam suas histórias. Repleto de imagens maravilhosas e uma música belíssima, Nacir Khemir criou uma fabula inédita e encantadora, filmada nas areias da Tunisia e do Irã.

Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers.

Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers.

A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband who's accompanied by a community-service volunteer who's assisting her. Interactions among these Europeans turn on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and opportunities for kindness.

The story of four soldiers who on a Friday go to the city with their commander. But this Friday is different and brings many troubles for them which changes them forever.

An old Iranian man disappears while searching for a friend who's been dead ten years, so his agitated daughter enlists her estranged husband to look for him; the husband puts his foot down at first but soon finds himself cruising the streets of Tehran with his best friend, searching for the old rascal and cursing all the way.

A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…

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.

An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.

Ali Mashreghi is a writer whose wife has been murdered after the night of his bitter fight with his wife. He is arrested and there is only one woman who can help him in the court of law.

An anthology directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Testing Democracy) and Dariush Mehrjui (Dear Cousin is Lost)

Um iraniano e seus dois assistentes chegam a uma humilde vila na região do Curdistão. Nomeado pelos locais como "Engenheiro", o homem é guiado por um garoto que o leva à uma anciã que parece estar prestes a morrer. O recém-chegado então passa a acompanhar os rituais e costumes daquela comunidade, enquanto cumpre seu propósito. Dirigido por Abbas Kiarostami e vencedor de três prêmios no Festival de Veneza.

On the eve of his first show, rock musician Siavash (Ali Ghorbanzadeh) makes a pilgrimage to the grave of his late father, killed during the Iran-Iraq War. But soon thereafter, a friend reveals that Siavash's father is still alive, a POW being held in Tehran. With the help of his girlfriend (Hedyeh Tehrani), Siavash struggles to make sense of the news. Saman Moghadam wrote and directed this portrait of young Iranians in the aftermath of war.

A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit.

Hasti, a widowed nurse who has a daughter, marries a paranoid wealthy man.

For his directorial and writing debut, cinematographer Mahmoud Kalari turns to his most familiar subject: filmmaking. A small crew from Tehran is filming in the countryside. Just when they are ready to shoot the final scene, the weather refuses to cooperate. As if that’s not enough of a problem, the lead actor suddenly abandons the shoot to attend to a family emergency. How far will the filmmakers go to accomplish their mission? Having worked on dozens of productions as a cinematographer, Kalari reflects on the absurd and comical situations that befall filmmakers in this charming picture (on which he also served as cinematographer).

This film tells the story of a semi modern Iranian couple, who are trying to fight the old beliefs & old generation. This is a failing battle because the man is not strong enough.

Quando Mohsen Makhmalbaf, realizador do filme, tinha dezessete anos, ele esfaqueou um policial durante um grande protesto - contra o regime que comanda o país à época - que ocorreu nas ruas de Teerã. Makhmalbaf foi preso em flagrante e ficou preso durante muito tempo. Vinte anos após o incidente, ele convida o policial que esfaqueou para participar da reconstrução dos eventos do fatídico dia.

Produção iraniana sobre um casal idoso que segue sua rotina de limpar o gabbeh, um tapete com um desenho intrincado. Magicamente, uma jovem aparece e passa a ajudar os dois. Ela pertence ao clã cuja história é narrada nas imagens do tapete, especialmente o romance que envolveu a tal jovem e um estranho do clã.

A man who is a news reporter is going to Germany from America to meet his son who is living there. There he tells his son that he is divorced now. The father is pick pocket by two guys.

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.

Ravaged physically and psychologically by the war, sergeant Rostam Darre Kalaye is retired to go back to his family in the northern part of Iran. During his long absence, his wife Golbakht and their son had to work in sergeant brother's auto service. Initially delighted by return of her husband, Soon Golbakht finds her husband a stranger.

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...

Three episodes, all with relatively similar plots about a love triangle between a woman and two men.

The film progresses along two distinct but interwoven series of events. The first series involves young members of a family who have gathered round their old mother and revive their common childhood memories. the second line focuses on the old woman's preparations for her last journey and her joyous cooperation in arranging for the ceremonies that are to be observed after her death.

Tehran, 1948. A young Jewish couple, Danial and his wife Munes, decide to immigrate to the recently founded state of Israel. But their application is rejected on the ground of the documents against Danial's uncle, Yaghub, how is suspected of betrayal. A Zionist agent, named Yezghel, finds out Yaghub's home and stabs him. One of Yaghub's neighbours who witnesses the crime is blamed for murder. Fearing for their lives, Munes and Danial escape to the north of Iran in order to leave the country. The Neighbour's brother, Nuri, a journalist, sets off on their heels to bring them to the court to give testimony on his brother's innocence.

When a British officer is found dead on a pipeline, tensions rise between a local tribe and authorities.

The arrival of a German tracking dog at the customs pier, which is by no means negotiable, has disrupted the order of the city. Major tells the story of a man in Bushehr who feels responsible for his son for the first time in several years.