Acting
Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.
A 15-year-old girl, struggling under societal and familial pressures, takes a stand to reclaim her identity and voice.
Amir and Mahi, a wealthy couple trapped in a crumbling marriage filled with doubt and secrecy. Battling a severe midlife crisis and an intense phobia of loss, Amir retreats into a heavy silence. The family's fragile dynamic reaches a breaking point when their teenage daughter, Sadaf, decides to leave for a music festival in Paris, forcing Amir to choose between holding his family together or fulfilling her dream.
A non-traditional wife and mother, Azar (Karimi) is first seen racing her dirt bike over a hilly track while her husband Amir (Azarang) and young daughter cheer her on. Co-equal with her liberal-minded husband in marriage and in their fledgling business venture, a café with a thriving carryout trade, she is forced to meet an unequal challenge in which the strict pecking order of a family dominated by misogynist uncle, a business loan with strings attached, a black sheep son with a hidden agenda, and a tragic accident add up to a scenario in which Azar is targeted as the unwilling sacrificial victim. (Gene Siskel Film Center)
Zohreh is on the verge of emigrating and faces personal and social problems.
Hanieh is a broke forty year old woman on the verge of being thrown out from her apartment. She has tried to make a film based on her own semi-autobiographical script for years, but after accepting that she has no luck to fulfill her dream, she has no other choice than selling the script to one of her best friends. Due to her love for the script and its details, Hanieh is not able to tolerate any indifferent and ignorant reactions during the preproduction, but she decides not to get involved in any conflict with the director, the cast and the crew today. However, during the reading rehearsal, others begin to judge her character as described in the script and name her a bastard and a loser...
A student filmmaker finds out her mother has been having recurrent dreams of her imminent death. Believing she is soon to die, the mother decides to both accomplish her outstanding religious duties and fulfill her children's wishes. She knows that her daughter's foremost ambition is to complete a feature film, and so hires a superstar. Eventually, while waiting for death to take her, the mother is confronted by an unexpected event.
