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.

В Тегеране происходит серия убийств модных кинематографистов. Забытый режиссер Хасан даже опечален тем, что убийца его игнорирует. Но вскоре ситуация меняется, и Хасан становится главным подозреваемым в череде смертей.

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.

Ахмад и его французская жена четыре года живут врозь. По просьбе Мари герой приезжает в Париж из Тегерана, чтобы уладить формальности, связанные с их разводом. Во время своего короткого визита Ахмад наблюдает постоянные ссоры жены и их дочери Люси. Его попытка уладить их отношения открывает секрет из прошлого…

Супруги Надер и Симин решили уехать из Ирана в поисках лучшей жизни. Но в один момент Надер все-таки решает остаться рядом со своим отцом, страдающим болезнью Альцгеймера. Симин подает на развод в надежде уехать с их 11-летней дочерью, но судебное решение оказывается не в ее пользу. Дочь, тем временем, надеется, что мама одумается и вернется.

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.

«Персидский ковёр» - фильм, созданный Иранским национальным ковровым центром и Фондом кино «Фараби», где 15 известных иранских режиссеров предоставили фильмы на тему персидского ковра. Ковры являются отражением культурной и исторической идентичности Ирана.

Сара пристрастилась к наркотикам. Ее жених Араш учится в Канаде и не знает о ее зависимости. За месяц до его возвращения в Иран Сара решает избавиться от своей зависимости, но это будет не так легко, как она думает.

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

Забавная история четырех старых друзей, которые на обратном пути после неудачного лыжного похода натыкаются на необычный громадный камень. Самовольные попытки мужчин сдвинуть его с места постепенно перерастают в повествование о предательстве, поражении и обретенной надежде.

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.

Два человека, затерянные в океане песка. Иштар, веселая маленькая девочка, и ее дед, Баб Азиз, слепой дервиш. Их цель — великое воссоединение дервишей, которое происходит каждые тридцать лет. Но узнать, где это произойдет, каждый пытается исходя из своей веры. Каждый должен услышать бесконечную тишину пустыни своим сердцем. Пока они пересекают безграничное пространство пустыни по обжигающим пескам, они встречаются с другими людьми. Осман, страдающий по прекрасной девушке, которую он нашел на дне колодца… Зайд, чьи песни воспевают восхитительную красавицу. которую он потерял…

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

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

Во время вынужденной стоянки на маленькой станции престарелый бизнесмен вдруг понимает, что на жизнь можно смотреть не только с точки зрения бизнеса. В том же поезде молодой человек находит свою любовь и осознает, что это не только счастье, но и ответственность, которую надо принять. А трое молодых шотландцев, которые направляются в Рим на футбольный матч, вынуждены признать, что мир живет по более сложным, нежели футбольные, правилам.

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.

Старый иранский мужчина исчезает в поисках друга, который был мертв десять лет, поэтому его взволнованная дочь зачисляет своего отчужденного мужа, чтобы найти его; сначала муж опускает ногу, но вскоре обнаруживает, что путешествует по улицам Тегерана со своим лучшим другом, разыскивая старого негодяя и проклиная его до конца.

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)

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

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).

Лейла и Реза — молодая семейная пара. Через несколько месяцев после свадьбы они узнают, что Лейла не может иметь детей. Мать Резы настаивает на том, что «каждый должен иметь детей» и уговаривает молодожёнов взять в дом вторую жену. Лейла пытается всем угодить и убеждает мужа согласиться, в душе надеясь, что он откажется. Реза хочет всем угодить и соглашается, в душе надеясь, что Лейла откажется от этой идеи. Столкновение веяний современности с традиционным укладом, положение женщины в подобным образом устроенном обществе и общечеловеческие страсти — вот предмет внимания в фильме.

Молодой Мохсен Махмальбаф был готов на преступление во имя исламской революции. Он набросился на полицейского, за что угодил в тюрьму. После освобождения он стал снимать кино. Однажды наниматься в массовку к режиссеру пришел тот самый полицейский. Махмальбаф предложил ему новый поединок: пусть каждый из них станет режиссером того давнего события.

Красивый символичный фильм-притча, где искусство причудливо переплетается с реальностью, лирическая поэма о персидских коврах - габбехах. Девушка из кочевого племени ткет ковер, в рисунках которого воплощена история ее любви, жизнь ее родного племени.

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.