Shabnam Dadkhah

The story of Sadaf, Azadeh, and Mona.

A transsexual named Amen is optimistically planning to do gender reassignment surgery but ends up being sent to prison. Being a transsexual was hard enough in Iran for Amen, let alone the misfortune of being replaced as a murderer.

A teenage girl has a strong affection for her friend's dentist, and gradually she is forced to choose between her dental health and the heart that beats for him.

This time the action is restricted to a kindergarten, a world seemingly far removed from real life in Iran. Pre-school is the first and last time boys and girls can learn together freely before entering the strictly segregated education system. Much like the dog in Toodehroosta’s well received first feature Paat (2013), six-year-old Roham plays the often silent witness to the actions unfurling around him. As his curiosity grows, the complicated real lives of the other pupils start to unravel.

It's about a boy who wants to keep his emotional relationship with a girl by threatening suicide. Every night they go somewhere but the guy doesn't kill himself, so the girl decides to end this situation.

A young factory worker in Iran is trying to change one of his work shifts in order to meet the girl he loves. But everybody refuses to change shifts with him.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

In a city ravaged by war, a brave woman struggles with a heart-wrenching dilemma. Torn between her deep love for her husband, a soldier on the front lines, and an intense, forbidden romance with a young woman, she finds herself caught in a whirlwind of passion and guilt. As she anxiously awaits news of her husband’s fate, she battles with secret desires that he may never return, freeing her to embrace the love that society forbids. This powerful film explores the complexities of love, loyalty, and the human heart in the darkest of times.

As Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran and families begin to flee, Yazdan, a man in his mid-30s, chooses to stay behind with his grandmother, who lives with Alzheimer’s and has no awareness of the war unfolding around her. Though escape is still possible, moving her would cause more distress than remaining. Inside their apartment, he takes on the quiet responsibility of caring for someone who no longer recognizes him, while the world outside grows increasingly unstable. As her memory unravels, their shared reality begins to divide: for her, nothing has changed; for him, everything has. What emerges is not a story of conflict, but of perception — a life shaped by something the other cannot register.