Acting
Tehran, today. Shadi is 17 years old. In life, Shadi loves listening to music at the bottom of the blocks with her best friend Ferial. But soon, she has to move to France, far from everything she has always known. Shadi starts to ask herself questions: is immigration really what she wants? To find out, she will embark on a journey to discover Iran.
In 1778, a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was in exile in Paris: reeling from his mother’s death, he spent his days writing scatalogical music and drowning in libertine excess. In this genre-defying ‘audiovisual opera’, Mozart’s life becomes a portal into that of Wolfgang, an Iranian artist navigating similar extremes as he too is exiled in Paris: the city where everyone says his dreams will come true, and praises him for escaping the censorship of his homeland.
Ursula and Neda, an East German waitress with a broken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm, both feel trapped and lonely in their precarious lives. One summer evening, Ursula falls for a mysterious musician from the city, while Neda is convinced that she recognized an old friend from Tehran in an equally enigmatic street sweeper. The winding paths of chance draw the two women together on an unexpected ghost hunt in the mountains...
A young woman travels to Tehran under the pretext of taking a language test, racing against time to make a life-altering decision.
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.
In Iran, the retired dance teacher Tarlan witnesses her friend Rana's murder by her husband, who is an important government figure. When the police refuse to investigate, Tarlan must decide whether to bow to political pressure or risk her reputation and livelihood in pursuit of justice.
A young girl decides to go to a forbidden party.
Student Fereshteh has to hide her illegitimate baby for one night from her parents who turn up for a surprise visit. Her friend Atefeh helps her. They embark on an odyssey through Tehran during which they must carefully weigh up who their allies are.
Ebrahim is twelve. He lives with his mother and five siblings of all ages in a two-roomed shack in the heart of desert, far away from the village. Aside from feeding the children and obtaining a birth certificate for them, the main preoccupation of Ebrahim and his mother is to build a house in the village so they don’t have to walk all the way back and forth all the time…
Trapped at home while chaos reigns in the streets, a young man in Tehran finds himself comforting his little sister, who is autistic. He helps her connect with the outside world through music.
