Films

The strict and traditional Mr Azizi works in an oil refinery, but at home his word is law. So it comes as a shock when,…

The Prophet Muhammad’s life story unfolds in this sweeping historical epic, the eleventh feature film from master filmmaker Majid Majidi who consulted some 40 Koranic…

Little Bahar lives a life spun from folklore and stories, always with her head in a book. But growing up in Yazd in the 1970s…

Winner, Best Documentary Feature Film, 2016 The third film of Mehrdad Oskouei’s trilogy exploring delinquency and incarceration, Starless Dreams focuses on the young girls in…

Special Mention, Best Performance by an Actress, 2015

Winner, APSA NETPAC Development Prize, 2014 Navid, a student in Tehran, finds himself thrown out of his university because of his political activities, but not…

Tales is a series of seven loosely-connected vignettes about different people dealing with their everyday problems in modern day Iran. Directed and co-written by Iran’s…

Winner, Best Screenplay, 2014

Olfat is raising her children in hardship. She has one daughter and one son called Yonos who works in Kerman copper mine. Olfat used to…

A number of students have traveled to the Caspian region in order to participate in a kite-flying event during the winter solstice. Next to their…

Winner, Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO, 2013 Maryam (Negar Javaherian) and Reza (Shahab Hosseini) try to do their best in life, but…

Noureddin has been missing in action for eight years. After all this time, he’s assumed dead and declared a martyr. His wife has moved on…

Winner, Best Feature Film, 2011 Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. She has already made all the necessary arrangements.…

Mohammad Rasoulof’s latest film, GOODBYE is the story of a young lawyer (Lelya Zareh) in Tehran, Iran in search of a visa to leave the…

Sahand’s family leaves fertile northern Iran and moves to the hot, arid south. But when war breaks out, an Iraqi bombing raid kills Sahand’s mother…

In Shahin Parhami’s contemplative portrait AMIN, the legacy of the 105-year-old Qashqai classical vocalist Ustad Kiyani is excavated through the poetic journey of a much…

Rana and Adineh, two women of opposite background and social class are accidentally brought together to share a journey. Rana, inexperienced, religious and bound by…

Winner, Best Children’s Feature Film, 2010 Some time after the death of his father, a young boy in rural Iran accidentally overhears his mother’s plans…

Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2009 Winner, Best Screenplay, 2009 With the return of their friend Ahmad from Germany, a group of old college friends decide…

A widow and her father live alone and make a living by mending oil lamps and making charcoal.

Winner, Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO, 2008 A child in the southern forests of Babol has to protect his flock without any…

About twenty years ago, Siamak, a medical student, is expelled from university and sent to prison for his political activities. His life is thrown into…

Winner, Best Performance by an Actor, 2008 The Song of Sparrows tells the story of Karim, a man who works at an ostrich farm until…

Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2007 Night Bus, a black-and-white war drama, travels back to the Iran-Iraq conflict of the mid-1980’s, when a young private is forced…

13-year-old Mohammad goes to the police station to complain about his dad who frequently beats him and his little sister. He tells the police he…

This documentary film is about the political and social events that happened after 1941 that caused the ‘North Neighbour Country’ to penetrate into Iran, forcing…

Winner, Achievement in Cinematography, 2007

Winner, Achievement in Directing, 2007 Less than excited to see the video her fiance sent from Toronto, where he’s temporarily based before he returns home to…

A mountain goat that has taken shelter in a small village is to be sacrificed for the occasion of a traditional ceremony. However, a small…

Reza and his family lead a simple life working on his goldfish farm in a northern Iranian village. Nearby, a private company with close links…

Special Mention, Best Performance by an Actor, 2017 The forensic pathologist Dr Nariman, a principled and virtuous man, has an accident with a motorcyclist and…

Winner, Artistic Acknowledgement, 2017 In his last film, 24 Frames, Abbas Kiarostami took up a unique challenge: to create a dialogue between his work as…

It’s 1988 and, at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed relentlessly. The days that pass are full of foreboding, and yet, love,…

Azim is an Afghan refugee who works at the municipality at night and lives in Tehran along with his family. Being the head of the…

Jalal returns from prison to collect his terminally ill and hospital-bound ex-wife’s car from his sister-in-law. She has been caring for their children but is…

When Tehran hosts visiting foreign dignitaries, the local authorities clean up the city’s urban image through the controversial process of ‘urban beautification’. Those who are…

The city is brimming with drug addicts, many of whom live homeless on the streets. Samad, a member of Anti-Narcotics Police Task Force, is looking…

In a bleak Iranian Juvenile Rehabilitation and Correction Centre, a group of teenage delinquents and juvenile defenders decide to put on a stage show that…

Ava is 17 years old with a passion for the violin, crushes on boys and a typical adolescent rebellious streak. When Ava is marched to…

Taher Mohebi is a well-known writer who, after witnessing a violent murder, breaks down and spends three years in a mental institution. After release he…

Every country that enforces the death penalty needs people to kill other people. Four men are put in front of an unthinkable but simple choice.…

Hewad, a nine-year-old boy, supports his family by selling goods from a cart on the harsh streets of Kabul after the death of his father.…

Forty years ago, during the uprising to overthrow the Shah’s regime in Iran, protestors set fire to movie theatres as a way of showing opposition…

Rahim is in prison because he was unable to pay a debt. During a two- day leave of absence from prison, he attempts to have…

Ali, a blind man, is attempting to commit suicide when he is interrupted by the concierge of his building. He is informed that the police…