Iran Movies

In Iran, since the 1979 Islamic revolution, women are no longer allowed to sing in public as soloists - at least in front of men. Defying censorship...

A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an...

16-year-old Hormoz is consoled by the prospect of hiring on at the strip mine as he is married off to 13-year-old Hendi. Alas, the young man finds...

An investigation of government censorship in Iran.

A documentary about the life and works of the maestros of Imaginary Painting School who made Iranian popular old style Khialisazi or Coffee-House...

This piece is inspired by the memoirs of Sepideh Gholian. A prisoner of conscience at 26 years old in Bushehr prison, Iran.

Iran, January 16th, 1979. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees after being overthrown. Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Tehran and proclaims the Islamic...

British adventurers Tom Allen and Leon McCarron set out to follow Iran’s longest river, the Karun, by human powered means. Their aim is to go...

DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE unfolds inside an Iranian divorce court, providing a subtle and intimate look at the lives of women in a country...

On September 22, 1998, the Iranian poet Hamid Hajizadeh and his nine-year-old son Karun, whose name symbolically refers to Iran's longest river, were...

All The Eyes is the story of the lives of children whose geographical determinism has created obstacles for them to achieve their dreams. Children...

Filmed in Canada, Iran, and the United States, Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani examines the life and...

Hundred to one hundred (Persian: صدبرابرصد‎‎) is a 1995 Iranian film written and...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's...

Arghavan is a woman close to middle age. When she and her husband take the pet dog to the vet, if someone has forced the animal to eat a lot of...

Bright Shadow (Persian: سايه روشن‎‎) is a 1997 Iranian drama film written and directed by...

An Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo.

A man who has fallen in love with a young woman discovers that she is the wife of his friend. When he realizes the woman's affection for a young...

Leyla and her six-year-old daughter Nila live in the holy city of Mashhad in Iran. Nila is the result of a temporary marriage, which allows a man to...

Ghost (Persian: شبح‎‎) is a 1998 Iranian drama film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian:...