Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he runs over an angel while driving home at...
his movie follows a boy who lives with his mother in a village. The boy has lost his father and needs to travel to Tehran with his soon to be stepfather.
Two young students want to go to Germany for a seminar on religion. The head of their seminary, called Haj Agha Frosti, blocks the way for them to travel. The young scholars, with the deceit of Hajj Agosti, get a visa for him and take him to Germany.
Moments after the earthquake, a young teacher in a village outside the town of Bam, scrambles from under the rubble and finds out that her colleagues has died in the quake. She sets out for the town of Bam to get rescue aid for the villagers, but to her amazement, she discovers that the main...
Leila, a young provincial girl, has recently married and now lives in Tehran. She and her husband are tenants to a pair of sweet, old ladies named Eti and Aziz. In matters of daily life and her relationship with her husband, Leila deals with all the same feminine preoccupations and concerns......
The trip to the Caspian Sea is a story of people who are driven by the frustrated death of Azizi in the lush green roads of the north: Aras, a hot baby mother who is self-infected with illness. The dead and husbands of the dead husband are losing Mehran, the man of his life. Spanta and her brother...
The film relates the story of a surgeon (Doctor Pārsā) who returns to Iran after living in Germany for 33 years. Arriving in Tehran, Doctor Pārsā performs a heart operation on the nephew of the family friend Mr Ghanāti. Mr Ghanāti urges him to travel with him to his home town, Bam. On the...
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...
Hamid Afshari, the secretary at the courthouse (Parviz Parastui), is running out of money to buy a computer for his son. Desperate, he plans to kidnap Farzan, the son of Mr. Zare, a rich party that had a trial in court. For this, he takes for accomplice Asghar, a gangster already condemned. Asghar...
a story of a young couple want to get married , how ever the wedding ceremony price is more than they can afford . people in the village suggested they can share the cost with a funeral .
Sadegh is a poor worker who lives in a small apartment with his mother and pregnant wife. When he finds out he's having sextuplets, things take a turn for the worse in his life.
An Iranian worker who does not have a psychological balance is involved with an Afghan worker. Following this conflict, an Iranian worker faces a heavy fine and is in a dangerous situation.
I think I have been standing on the edge of a cliff. I would like to jump but I don't dare. I wish I could come back through time to change my past, but it is impossible.
