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Bahram is a 40-year-old filmmaker who’s spent his entire career making films in Turkish-Azeri, none of which have ever been screened in Iran. His latest work, once again denied permission by the Ministry of culture, pushes him to the edge of defiance. With his sharp-tongued, Vespa-riding producer Sadaf by his side, he embarks on an underground mission to showcase his film to an Iranian audience, dodging government censors, absurd bureaucracy, and his own self- doubts.
A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, and the youngest keeps exploding into car karaoke. Only the older brother is quiet.
When demonic Jinns threaten his mother, a man must confront the sins of his family and a curse that spans generations.
"Najes" is the story of a religious man's accident with a dog. Due to the belief that the dog is impure, the man's wife and mother are against keeping it at home. But he thinks the life of a dog should be more important than its impurity.
A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s license, applying for a job, or seeking approval for a film script, if you live in Iran, you best come fluent in Orwellian discourse.
A man who wants to pass the border hunts a ram and decides to escape disguised as the animal.
The short film Kuche is the story of a group of documentary makers who go to Mrs. Afkham Shabestri's house to record her memories of her last meeting with her husband, but the film remains puzzled in her dream world to recover her forty-year longing.
The film tells the story of an 8-year-old schoolboy who lives under constant stress because of his family’s poverty. At school, he repeatedly wets his pants. When he returns home, he hides under his mother’s chador. His mother decides that he must overcome this habit, but because of the problems related to his fugitive father, she faces other difficulties.
