Kianush Ayyari

An Iranian villager wants to restore a nearby well in hopes of solving a water sortage, but is haunted by a local legend of a monster that drinks the wells dry.

In the years before the Iranian revolution, after winning the Asian Gold Medal a bicycling champion named Gol Aqa [Ali Reza Khamseh] received an enthusiastic welcome from his compatriots when he returned to his birthplace in the City of Semnan. The government officials in his town immediately ordered that he attend a meeting about welcoming the shah's sister Ashraf Pahlavi on her arrival in the city...

A Documentary about the New Wave movement in Iranian cinema.

The movie Kanapeh tells the story of the lives of two families who want to get together, but in the end, a couch causes problems in their lives.

Moments after the earthquake, a young teacher in a village outside the town of Bam, scrambles from under the rubble and finds out that her colleagues has died in the quake. She sets out for the town of Bam to get rescue aid for the villagers, but to her amazement, she discovers that the main tragedy has occurred there. Cries of help are heard from every side and the hospital is filled with the injured and the dead. On the recommendation of a cleric, she goes to the mortuary to help with the washing of the dead bodies of women. A prisoner, who managed to get out after the prison building is destroyed asks the teacher to wash the bodies of his dead mother, wife and child, Arezu.

A counterfeit 1000 tomin bank note is passed in a bazaar. It passes through a broad cross-section of Iranian society, stopping with a pickpocket, a pomegranate seller, an abortionist, an estate sale, a beggar, a college student, a wedding reception, some musicians, smuggling rings, and some New Year's revelers. Most of them realize it is counterfeit, but too late to take action.

"Setayesh" tells the story of a mother who works as a physician and has a daughter who has recently gotten engaged. Then events unfold that open the daughter's eyes to her past, leading her to discover things in which...

A young woman is murdered by her own father, with the help of her younger brother. She is secretly buried in the cellar, a space where the women of the family weave carpets and perform other domestic chores. Her loss, or perhaps her presence, continues to haunt the family as it reverberates through the following generations. Ayyari’s film is staged exclusively in this house and was banned several times in Iran.

Documentary about Film magazine. Film (Persian: فیلم) is an Iranian film review magazine published for more than 40 years (founded in 1982).

The story of three old musicians and puppeteers who set off on a long journey across Iran, performing en route and re-discovering old friends.

The car of a war refugee who is now living in Tehran is stolen. He with the help of his son begins a desperate search for finding his stolen car. Meanwhile he meets a man who can help him and his son Borna is too after his missing eyeglasses.

the story of doctor Mohammad Gharib an iranian physician, clinician, distinguished university professor

Shadow and Farah, which are very similar to each other, accidentally collide ...

Short Documentary about tabas earthquake in iran.

Beach Villa tells the story of a village family who are supposed to take care of a villa for 6 months as caretakers. Chavosh, the owner of the villa, is going to live outside of Iran for 6 months for his daughter to go to university, and he leaves the villa to Yunus and his wife, and they move to the villa with their 3 children. But upon entering the house, Yunus' brother-in-law creates stories that...

Mitra is a single mother who runs an ecotourism complex with her son Arvand. Together, they organize tourist tours and diving training. After a lengthy wait, the bodies of divers who were suspiciously killed in the war are found, there is no clue of Mitra's husband. So, she decides to find him.

A scriptwriter who can't convince the company to produce his movie, decides to operate the story in real life.

A man has left his country when his wife was killed during the war. Now he must go back to Kabul for wedding of one of his daughters. Unwillingly he gets involved in an internal conflict...

Kianoush Ayari’s film captures rare scenes of everyday life on the streets of Tehran in the months following the revolution of 1979.

Amir - a youngster from Zanjan (one of the provinces of Iran) is going to Tehran to visit her grandmother for the first time by train, but inside the train coup, a man steals his money while he is asleep ...