روزگار ما
Directed by Rakhshan Banietemad • 2001 • Iran
Rakhshan Banietemad decides to capture images of people involved in the presidential elections of 2001 in Iran. She follows some young cinema actors and artists, including her young daughter, who with lots of hopes and desires for future hav...

ما نیمی از جمعیت ایرانیم
Directed by Rakhshan Banietemad • 2009 • Iran
The Women Rights Activists of Iran, consisting of a vast spectrum with different points of view, pose their questions to the 10th presidential candidates of Iran, three of which discuss their opinions. Ahmadinejad, the preside...

مثل یک زن
Directed by Mojgan Ilanlu • 2016 • Iran
Faezeh Hahsemi, daughter of the Iran’s powerful former president, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani,​ is the most news making woman in the Islamic republic’s history. At first, she was only known as the daughter of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, but she...

Directed by Beate Petersen • 2011 • Norway
In 1842 the 11-year-old heir to the Persian throne received a camera from Queen Victoria of England. In the following decades, he documented his life, revealing to the public eye what it was never supposed to see.
“Nasseredin Shah and his 84 Wives” is ba...

Directed by Caveh Zahedi • 2012 • USA
Commissioned by a Middle Eastern Biennial to make a film on the theme of "art as a subversive act," independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi goes overboard. Told that he can do whatever he wants except make fun of the Sheik (who rules the country and finances the B...

فردوسی و مردم
Directed by Hossein Torabi • 1977 • Iran
A documentary about Ferdowsi, the great Persian poet of 9th century, the creator epic Shahnameh (the book of kings). The film examines the impacts of the poet and his masterpiece, almost one thousand years after its creation, on Iran and Iran...