Bahram Beyzai's poetic imagining of the circumstances that led to the death of Yazdgerd III, the last of the Sassanid kings of Iran. His death in 651, during the Arab invasions that brought Islam to this Zoroastrian realm, was mysterious: his corpse was discovered in a mill, but the cause of his death—and the whereabouts of his remains—are unknown.
9th century China. Ten year old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates h...
THE BRIGHT DAY weaves a story that has its roots in the complexity of Iran’s draconian laws governin...
Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to conti...
A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenpl...
In 1986 Iran, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village, enters into a conversation with Z...
Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...
A haughty acclaimed newly married fashion designer named Iraj is shown the door by his boss after th...
Famed actress Susan Taslimi plays three roles here: Kian, who doubts her identity; Vida, the twin si...
25-year-old Arghavan lives with her parents in Tehran, and intends to marry her fiancé, Hesam. One d...
A filmmaker named Hadi is sent to Croatia to complete his research for a film. Aziz, Hadi’s friend, ...
Jalil is 17-year-old boy living with his Iranian family in a suburb near Helsinki. Though he has liv...
Iran, January 16th, 1979. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees after being overthrown. Ayatollah Khomein...
Yahya is a middle-aged man who lives in a small town, a place where he can hide and forget his past,...
Prince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, is suffering from tubercu...
Dash Akol is greatly respected in Shiraz as an honorable man who has lost his family's money through...
An urban guerrilla, wounded after a bank robbery, seeks refuge with his childhood friend—only to dis...
Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In priso...
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife...
Inspirational true story of Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian, who risked his life for his dream to b...