ملا خدیجه و بچهها
Directed by Ebrahim Mokhtari • 1996 • Iran
When the sun is high in the sky and summer unfolds in Mehriz, a village Southeast of Teheran, a group of children attends a summer school class by the elder Mrs. Khadijeh. This dedicated teacher manages to put timid children at ease, console a crying girl and quiet down pestering brats. ‘Be nice to each other,‘ she often repeats. She shows her affection by handing out sweets when one of the girls has learned to read the first lines from the Koran. During the break, she even climbs a tree to pick some figs, and the children tumble over each other to get hold of one. When a boy pays her a visit, she friendly yet coercively asks him to keep her company; she appears to need the children just as badly as they need her.
منیر
Directed by Bahman Kiarostami • 2015 • Iran
This documentary looks at the life and work of Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, who first garnered attention in the 1970s when she pioneered contemporary forms of geometric mirror works. Monir created an artistic language that was inf...
Shahriyar, a garbage collector, has a passion for literature and poetry. He writes imaginative stories to escape from his dull, prosaic life in Kermanshah, a city in Iran’s Kurdistan region. But his wife, his family, his neighborhood and all the people around him constantly conspire to hold him b...
مادرم بلوط
Directed by Mahmoud Rahmani • 2010 • Iran
In the mountains, we acquaint with a person called Asad. He can sing well. His house was flooded by holding back the water of Karoon-3 dam. Because of his interest in the mountains and the jungle, he can’t stay in the city for good, so he somet...
