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  • +x+=+

    +x+=+
    Directed by Niyaz Saghari • 2020 • Iran/UK
    Even in the last week of her life, my mother believed in the power of positive thinking and humour. She told her nurse + x+=+. I grieved for her by turning recordings of her voice , the sound of dust falling on her grave and old super 8 family film...

  • 14th of Aban, The Day of Fire

    چهارده آبان روز آتش
    Directed by Robert Safarian • 2008 • Iran
    This Film is about one day of Iranian Revolution, 14th of Aban 1357 (5 Nov. 1978), the day Tehran was set on fire. From the beginning question arose who set the buildings on fire, SAVAK (security police of Shah) or the demonstrators. W...

  • 20th Circuit Suspects

    متهمین دایره بیستم
    Directed by Hesam Eslami • 2017 • Iran
    After having his car stolen, the director meets Ehsan, the leader of an adolescent crime gang that breaks into cars regularly. What forms is a close relationship between the director and the members of the group, following their steps for ...

  • 7 Veils

    هفت پرده
    Directed by Sepideh Farsi • 2017 • Afghanistan/France
    Little is known about Afghanistan, apart from a few
    clichés, the word Taliban, and a war which seems never
    to have stopped since the Soviet Union and the turning
    point reached in 2001. With this film, Sepideh Farsi took up again the d...

  • 9th of May 2014

    نوزده اردیبهشت ۹۳
    Directed by Atieh Attarzadeh, Aslan Shahebrahimi • 2017 • Iran
    This short film follows a young woman named Neda and her friends on the day of her thesis defense. The handheld camera observes them during the defense, in the car, and later at an amusement park. It reveals the inti...

  • A Brief Peace

    شهر خاموشان
    Directed by Ata Hayati • 2004 • Iran
    Contrary to the Westerners who want to prolong their life, for the Orientals and specially the Muslims, death is the beginning of a new life which they embrace.
    At least once a week, the people of Tehran go the biggest cemetery in their town (Behes...

  • A Day in the Life of Greg Watkins

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    Directed by Caveh Zahedi • 1999 • USA
    A production diary of the making of Greg Watkins’ A Sign From God.

  • A Journey Into Zero Space

    سفری به مکان صفر
    Directed by Dawood Hilmandi • 2017 • Afghanistan/Iran/Netherlands/USA
    ‘A Journey Into Zero Space’ is a triptych at the border between autobiographical fiction and experimental film essay, investigating and re-living archives of the past by reflecting on them and on current events...

  • A Good Time For Tragedy

    وقتِ خوبِ مصائب
    Directed by Nasser Saffarian • 2006 • Iran
    Tribute documentary by Nasser Saffarian about influential poet and screenwriter Ahmadreza Ahmadi, the leading figure in Iran's New Wave Poetry movement. As Ahmadi provides insights into his life, the importance of knowing himself and his ...

  • A Lifetime in an Hour

    یک ساعت از یک عمر
    Directed by Rakhshan Banietemad • 2015 • Iran
    "Eskandar Firouz," the founder of the Department of Environment is known as Iran's father of the environment. A few-hours-long meeting and conversation by three environmental activists with him is an oral history and a quick look at ...

  • A Little Stiff

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    Directed by Caveh Zahedi, Greg Watkins • 1991 • USA
    A Little Stiff is a minimalist comedy based on true events and re-enacted by the actual participants. Caveh Zahedi plays himself as a neurotic film student who develops a crush on art student Erin McKim after a brief encounter in an elevato...

  • A Report about Mina

    گزارشی درباره‌ی مینا
    Directed by Kaveh Mazaheri • 2015 • Iran
    Mina who lives in a corner of a park in Tehran, pays no mind to the hustle and bustle of the New Year’s celebrations. The film gives us a glimpse into fourteen days of her life as she plays with dogs, exchanges banter with other homele...

  • A Waltz for Tehran

    والسی برای تهران
    Directed by Zeinab Tabrizy • 2016 • Iran
    Mehrdad Mehdi, one of the pioneers of street music in Iran, decides to get his old band members together to start a street music festival in Tehran. There are lots of obstacles and difficulties on this road which makes for a heartfelt and ...

  • A Woman Without A Name

    زنی که نام ندارد
    Directed by Farzad Khoshdast • 2018 • Iran
    Behind the solid concrete walls of the women's prison Gharchak in Iran's capital, Tehran, four young women open the door to their lives and innermost thoughts. They reveal their downfall into substance abuse and violent crime, which led ...

  • A Youth

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    Directed by Giorgio Bosisio • 2020 • UK
    Peyman and his friends are a group of Afghan teenagers on the cusp of adulthood, who find themselves stuck in Athens, waiting for their asylum requests to be processed. Their hope is to reach mainland Europe and re-unite with their loved ones, but it c...

  • About Father, About Death

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    Directed by Farhad Behbahani • 2020 • Iran
    The filmmaker has lost his father whose personal belongings make the filmmaker reflect on the nature of death.

  • After 17 Days

    بعد از ۱۷ روز
    Directed by Babak Bahrambeygi • 2011 • Iran
    Zeynab is born into a family with a bad guardian and is abandoned on the streets without any care when she is five years old. After seeing her and realizing the difficult circumstances of her life, a middle-aged woman named Khadija decides...

  • Ali Aqa

    علی آقا
    Directed by Kamran Heidari • 2017 • Iran
    Seventy-year-old Ali Aqa’s large, fleshy hands shake as he helps a newborn pigeon chick hatch. His pigeons, which he keeps on the roof of his home, mean everything to him. He calls his favorite white pigeon “sweetheart” and even takes her into his ...

  • All My Trees

    همه درختان من
    Directed by Rakhshan Banietemad • 2015 • Iran
    Mahlagha Mallah is Iran’s eldest environmental activist and the founder of the first environmental NGO in Iran. Spending a few days in her home and accompanying her in environmental gatherings and activities is an excuse to portray the c...

  • All That's Missing

    تمام چیزهایی که جایشان خالی‌ست
    Directed by Zeinab Tabrizy • 2018 • Iran
    This documentary narrates the lives of two women, Mahnaz and Jamileh, who have both been diagnosed with breast cancer – one dies after a long battle with the disease, the other fully recovers and engages in charity, raising a...

  • Amin

    امین
    Directed by Shahin Parhami • 2011 • Iran
    Amin is the story of an ancient musical tradition and one man’s struggle to preserve it. It is told using a unique approach to documentary storytelling that challenges the boundaries of fiction and reality. Amin Aghaie is a young modern nomad from the...

  • Amnesia

    نسیان
    Directed by Shahin Parhami • 2002 • Canada
    Amnesia revolves around the improvised monologues of veteran Iranian Actor Shahram Golchin. It is a cinematic composition that weaves director Shahin Parhami’s signature poetic style of writing with image and sound with Golchin’s improvised perform...

  • Amour du Réel

    آمور دو ریل
    Directed by Iman Behrouzi • 2017 • Iran
    After working abroad for several years, a filmmaker returns to his family home in Shiraz, Iran to make a film for the woman he loves. His exploration of his feelings and of the cross-cultural and geographical barriers to pursuing this relationsh...

  • Angel of the House of Sun

    حياط خلوت خانه خورشيد
    Directed by Rakhshan Banietemad • 2009 • Iran
    In the backstreets of one of the poor districts of Tehran, in a very small house, everyday hundreds of women spend a few hours in the shadows of a safe shelter. Women, whose share in life is only suffering and humiliation.