A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s license, applying for a job, or seeking approval for a film script, if you live in Iran, you best come fluent in Orwellian discourse. Progressing along a rough timeline from birth to death, each story is shot in a static camera angle as a single petitioner negotiates with an authority figure hovering just outside of frame, who is practiced in the language of doublespeak.
Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed ...
Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and...
In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bure...
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a ...
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is follo...
Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of...
When her husband is kicked in the groin by the village head, Qiu Ju, a peasant woman, despite her pr...
The young, pretty and shy Angela Duvall is jailed for murder in some Latin American country. In the ...
An unfortunate and naive girl is set-up by her boyfriend and convicted of drug smuggling. She is sen...
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women c...
A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation t...
Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador...
An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russ...
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying r...
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team u...
The corruption in the Sung Dynasty of 11th century China is so rampant that it inspires a band of Or...
Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of ...