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Shayda
Shayda
An Iranian woman living in Australia, Shayda finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter, Mona. Having fled her husband, Hossein, and filed for divorce, Shayda ...
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Endless Borders
Endless Borders
The story opens in Balochistan, in a small, scarcely ‘wired’ village bordering Iran and Afghanistan. Ahmad is an idealistic teacher in exile, educating the local community; his partner ...
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A Tale of Shemroon
A Tale of Shemroon
After his mother's untimely death, Amir, who sees his father as the only one responsible for their ruined life, is desperate to leave the family home and take Ali, his younger brother. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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A Time for Drunken Horses
A Time for Drunken Horses
After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.
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Baran
Baran
On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both ...
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Ten
Ten
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
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At Five in the Afternoon
At Five in the Afternoon
Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with ...
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Crimson Gold
Crimson Gold
For Hussein, a pizza delivery driver, the imbalance of the social system is thrown in his face wherever he turns. One day when his friend, Ali, shows him the contents of a lost purse, ...
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Beautiful City
Beautiful City
Akbar, 18, has been held in a rehabilitation centre for committing murder at the age of sixteen. Now, Akbar is transferred to prison to await the day of his execution. A’la, a friend of ...
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The Lizard
The Lizard
The satirical commentary on clergymen in post-revolutionary Iran. While in prison, petty criminal Reza (Parviz Parastui) comes across a clergyman, sparking a plan for escape. Reza dons ...
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Fireworks Wednesday
Fireworks Wednesday
Rouhi, a young bride-to-be, is hired as a maid for an affluent family in Tehran. Upon arriving, she is suddenly thrust into an explosive domestic conflict. The wife is convinced her ...
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Bab’Aziz
Bab’Aziz
The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once ...
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The Music Man
The Music Man
Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family ...