8.0Endless Borders
Endless Borders
The story opens in Balochistan, in a small, scarcely ‘wired’ village bordering Iran and Afghanistan. Ahmad is an idealistic teacher in exile, educating the local community; his partner ...
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7.9Children of Heaven
Children of Heaven
Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.
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7.9Close-Up
Close-Up
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as ...
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7.9Where Is My Friend’s House?
Where Is My Friend’s House?
An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
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7.9Prophet Joseph
Prophet Joseph
This story basically follows the most important happenings in Prophet Josephs life, from the view of muslims. The most important happenings are: 1. his travel to egypt 2. his rise and ...
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7.7Turtles Can Fly
Turtles Can Fly
Turtles can fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iran border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
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7.7A Moment of Innocence
A Moment of Innocence
A semi-autobiographical account of Makhmalbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the ...
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7.6Leila’s Brothers
Leila’s Brothers
At the age of 40, Leila has spent her entire life caring for her parents and four brothers. A family that is constantly arguing and under pressure from various debts in the face of ...
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7.6Walnut Tree
Walnut Tree
Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in Kurdistan Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by the Saddam regime. On June 28th, ...
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7.6A Time for Drunken Horses
A Time for Drunken Horses
After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.
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7.5I Want To Be Alive
I Want To Be Alive
Homa Haghi and her love are preparing with the Haghi family to surprise Homayoun, the father of her family on his birthday night. But when the father arrives, the whole family is surprised.
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7.5Fireworks Wednesday
Fireworks Wednesday
Rouhi, a young bride-to-be, is hired as a maid for an affluent family in Tehran. Upon arriving, she is suddenly thrust into an explosive domestic conflict. The wife is convinced her ...
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7.5Beautiful City
Beautiful City
Akbar, 18, has been held in a rehabilitation centre for committing murder at the age of sixteen. Now, Akbar is transferred to prison to await the day of his execution. A’la, a friend of ...
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7.5The Color of Paradise
The Color of Paradise
The story revolves around a blind boy named Mohammed who is released from his special school in Tehran for summer vacation. His father, shamed and burdened by Mohammed's blindness, ...
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7.5The White Balloon
The White Balloon
Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.
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7.4Baran
Baran
On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both ...
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7.3The Lizard
The Lizard
The satirical commentary on clergymen in post-revolutionary Iran. While in prison, petty criminal Reza (Parviz Parastui) comes across a clergyman, sparking a plan for escape. Reza dons ...
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7.3Through the Olive Trees
Through the Olive Trees
Complications arise in a director's attempt to film a scene in Life, and Nothing more... (1992).
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7.2Subtraction
Subtraction
After a confusing interaction in downtown Tehran, a married couple seems to have found their doppelgängers.
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7.2Sun Children
Sun Children
The story of 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to make fast ...
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7.2The Wind Will Carry Us
The Wind Will Carry Us
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local ...
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7.1Law of Tehran
Law of Tehran
Samad is nobody’s fool. The narcotics officer has seen his share of a drug dealer’s lies and games, and his patience has come to run thin. While searching for the infamous drug baron ...
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7The Wasteland
The Wasteland
A remote brick manufacture factory produces bricks in an ancient way. Many families with different ethnicities work in the factory and the boss seems to hold the key to solving their ...