14-year-old girl Khatemeh has run away to a women's refuge and is seeking a divorce from her husband, a man twice her a…
Almost twenty years after appearing as a young boy in "Ten", the famous Abbas Kiarostami's film, Amina is now a transge…
Canada-based Iranian director Farhad Pakdel films four Iranian families in this country as they reminisce about the spa…
"Ebram" was an Iranian guitarist and composer who, after dying in suspicious circumstances, became a myth and an inspir…
Funny and absurd, yet profoundly realistic. This documentary follows a group of Middle Eastern immigrants as they try t…
Inside a car driving through the streets of Tehran, a recurring motif in Iranian cinema, three female passengers tell t…
In a country historically closed to immigration, a group of asylum seekers show themselves only through their hands and…
The daughter of an Iranian dissident killed by the Islamic Revolution delves into her family's memories, mixing the pol…
Could we define happiness? An ordinary man with a penchant for philosophy after the 1979 Islamic revolution ponders thi…
This documentary, awarded at the prestigious IDFA, films over the years two Iranian girls from their religious initiati…
This film mixes images from the diverse lives of Iranians in the United States that make up a nation in Exile.
After living in Paris for years, Arash, a demotivated young Iranian, visits the coasts of France with his friends, who …
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 …
Based in Brussels, filmmaker Sanaz Azari begins to study Farsi with a children's book that dates back from the Islamic …
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 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…
After twenty years of exile near Geneva, Switzerland, Ustad Hossein Arman, a popular Afghan singer, returns to Kabul to…
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…
This courageous documentary directed by female filmmaker Alka Sadat is a close follow-up to a group of Afghan Commodes …
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…
Best Documentary Films
