Movies: Iran

Five psychological thrilling tales about the emotions that can destroy our souls: despair, temptation, guilt, doubt and anger. Which one has the worst consequence?...

My Baba Bozorg was a professor of literature in Tehran, Iran. He moved to Canada in 2002 to live with his son, my father. He spends his days, at large, seldom in his room on the top floor of our suburban home in Scarborough, Ontario. Primarily readin...

The story of two youngster girls who became the victims of female genital mutilation....

Can we reinvent our lost queer histories? #Familiar #Touch #Lost #Figures is about queer ancestry and diaspora, a hybrid of cultural traditions and contemporary queer identity. It explores feelings of guilt and joy, and intimacy between femmes of col...

Javad, on a remote road having missed the last bus, happens to meet Gholamhossein, a man who was a close friend of his father. Gholamhossein tells him things about his father that he never knew....

Family videos are odd objects. You can sit around all together and for a few hours relive your life. Family videos are valuable. The older the videos are, the more valuable they become for us. Especially for those of us who have had complicated lives...

An engineer attempts to keep his family safe from the revolutionary turmoil of 1978 Iran....

This program presents filmed sequences of a group of twenty-nine villagers from Sahneh who had been attacked by a rabid wolf. Filmed sequences of one villager taken at various times during his disease, are presented to illustrate the clinical course ...

After the death of his father, Khalil, a 13-year-old Iranian boy, involves the entire village to ensure that his soul receives divine forgiveness....

The Other Side of Burka is a 2004 Iranian documentary directed by Mehrdad Oskouei. In the southern island of Qeshm, Iran, which is a very strict region in point of tradition and African-Arabic rules, all women are under the pressure of patriarch soci...

Iranian Taboo tells the harrowing story of Baha'i woman Nadereh and her 14-year-old daughter who decide to sell all their belongings and leave their home in Isfahan to take refuge in the west. The film takes us across continents from Turkey to Israel...

A boy has been fishing for some time in a grounded ship at the zero point border. He has chosen the place for his seclusion and serenity when the appearance a stranger takes away his peace and his work....

Nasrin; a wild rose, purged of its share of dry branches tries to flourish in Iran....

As the United States and Iran are locked in a battle for power and influence across the Middle East—with the fear of an Iranian nuclear weapon looming in the background—FRONTLINE gains unprecedented access to Iranian hard-liners shaping government po...

British adventurers Tom Allen and Leon McCarron set out to follow Iran’s longest river, the Karun, by human powered means. Their aim is to go beyond the politics and explore the culture and geography of this most misunderstood of nations – and have a...

Sohrab, a young Iranian soldier, finds himself face-to-face with his fellow citizens during a demonstration....

Siavash Shahabi film made in 2011....

In 1972, Bahman Maghsoudlou made a short film about Iranian artist Ardeshir Mohasses. For 36 years, this remained the only film about this internationally acclaimed artist. In 2008, spurred by a New York retrospective of Mohasses's work and the artis...

'Renjerou' lives in areas around the nuclear plant, "Oleg" The Russian guy is a friend. The world is undergoing and the friendship of the two-stage separate events.....

Mr Ahmadi gets on an inter-city minibus for a relatively straightfoward trip. The mileu of arrivals and departures brings his journey new meaning....