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Blackboards
Blackboards
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with ...
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The Wind Will Carry Us
The Wind Will Carry Us
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local ...
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The Color of Paradise
The Color of Paradise
The story revolves around a blind boy named Mohammed who is released from his special school in Tehran for summer vacation. His father, shamed and burdened by Mohammed's blindness, ...
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The Apple
The Apple
After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.
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Children of Heaven
Children of Heaven
Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.
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A Moment of Innocence
A Moment of Innocence
A semi-autobiographical account of Makhmalbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the ...
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The White Balloon
The White Balloon
Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.
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Salaam Cinema
Salaam Cinema
Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and ...
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Through the Olive Trees
Through the Olive Trees
Complications arise in a director's attempt to film a scene in Life, and Nothing more... (1992).
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Life, and Nothing More…
Life, and Nothing More…
After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In ...
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Close-Up
Close-Up
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as ...
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Hamoon
Hamoon
Hamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to ...
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Fish
Fish
Javad, whose father is in prison, buys a goldfish for the Persian New Year but his mother orders him to release the fish. Javad doesn't want to lose his fish but finally agrees to do ...
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Where Is My Friend’s House?
Where Is My Friend’s House?
An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
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The Big Appointment
The Big Appointment
Amir and Reza Sooti in their youth promise to meet each other 20 years later on a special day and by putting an advertisement in the newspapers. On that special day Reza comes but Amir ...
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Valley of Death
Valley of Death
Swinging Sixties spy caper, 'a cocktail of sex and adventure' with an all-star international cast.