"Ebram" was an Iranian guitarist and composer who, after dying in suspicious circumstances, became a myth and an inspir…
Inside a car driving through the streets of Tehran, a recurring motif in Iranian cinema, three female passengers tell t…
In November 2017, a devastating earthquake hit western Iran. It took only 13 seconds to lose everything. This is a flee…
This documentary, awarded at the prestigious IDFA, films over the years two Iranian girls from their religious initiati…
Brazilian filmmaker Octavio Cury travels to Syria and obtains a book written by his great-grandfather, an icon of Arab …
This film mixes images from the diverse lives of Iranians in the United States that make up a nation in Exile.
The arrival of a magic car creates a change in a small town in Iran where children often drop out of school due to the …
With direct access from the inside of the war against ISIS, this documentary follows two leaders of a group of Shiite v…
An Iranian director based in Germany visits his country with a mission: to show Iran beyond the negative stereotype tha…
Having the citizen revolts in 2009 in Iran as the starting point, this documentary reviews the political and cultural c…
This short film is a delicate gaze at a religious and culinary rite in a town in Iran, where the believers prepare a me…
This is the portrait of Ali Badri, an elderly Kurdish man who has learned to enjoy a humble and loving life despite his…
In a small village in northern Iran, the life of the inhabitants revolves around Barre, a fighting bull that sustains t…
The filmmaker Iman Behrouzi prepares to make a film for the woman he loves, which triggers within his family a debate a…
In the midst of loneliness and far away from their loved ones, the elders of an old age in Iran try to follow their dai…
ISIS has carried out violent offensives against the Kurdish Yazidis, kidnapping women, selling them and raping them. Na…
TAN (Body in Farsi) is an experimental documentary confronting the relation between physical and social body within two…
Safe Passage is a silent look at a historic passage between Iran and Iraq for pilgrims heading from one country to anot…
Known as one of the best dancers in Tehran and having been Iran's first female film director, Shahrzad's artistic caree…
A woman runs a shelter for domestic animals in the snowy heights of the city of Rasht, Iran.
Seeking a better future in Germany, a young Iranian filmmaker must separate from his girlfriend in his native country. …
Ghassem Takdehgham believes that he has invented the cure for cancer, an herbal medicine that he has been preparing for…
In the middle of a refugee camp on the border between Syria and Turkey, three pregnant Kurdish teenagers survive alone …
An experimental observation of an Iranian burial ceremony.
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