A Tehran mullah-in-training struggles to take care of his ailing wife and their children in this profoundly moving melodrama. A film of near-universal appeal, it puts a human face on Iran's Muslim clergy with its unusual tale of a man forced by hardship to become a better husband and father. Seyed Reza has just moved with his family to Tehran so he can study the Koran, and he relies on his lovely wife Zahra to look after their two young children and weave the intricate rugs that earn them a living. But one evening Zahra collapses and is taken to the hospital, where she's diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Scarcely able to process the tragedy, Seyed is left to cook, change diapers, walk his daughter to school and take his toddler son with him to his classes, where peers and elders treat him with scorn. But Seyed eventually learns to cope, his prayers and devotional studies taking on deeper meaning as he attends to the hard nightly work of rug weaving, getting through with a heavy ...
Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmakin...
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, ...
Two homicide detectives investigates the murder of a woman ...
THE BRIGHT DAY weaves a story that has its roots in the complexity of Iran’s draconian laws governin...
A haughty acclaimed newly married fashion designer named Iraj is shown the door by his boss after th...
Bahman, Mahtab, Ramin and Donya Mehdipour are enjoying a perfect summer in a small Finnish town. The...
Spanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tou...
During a demonstration, with the assistance of a man named Manouchehr, Fereshteh succeeds to get rid...
Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo t...
Olfat is raising her children in hardship. She has one daughter and one son called Yonos who works i...
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving ...
Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now th...
Nahal is around thirty and in her fourth month of pregnancy. During a routine check-up she learns th...
An Iranian couple from the city drive around a remote mountainous region. They hand out bags of mone...
A mother's courage, hardship, and love, in times of war. In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, Gilane e...
A sensation when released in 1999 in Iran, Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture ...
A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law.
Tunnel 18 (Persian: تونل 18) is a 1997 Iranian Historical drama film written and directed by Hosse...
The advocate for a young Iranian refugee held in detention. Amir Ali claims to be an Iranian student...