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A Simple Event

The story of a ten years old Iranian schoolboy living with his mother and his father in Northern coasts of Iran. The boy helps his father in selling the latter's illegal fishing and helps his mother in shopping for her and bringing home water from a well. The three characters live together in only o...

1974 | 80 Min
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A Simple Event

A Span of Heaven

Mohsen lives a life of poverty, and sells flowers to passing motorists to support his family. His father, meanwhile, makes a living selling second-hand clothes. After a particularly gruelling day when his father's stock is confiscated, Mohsen prays to God for a better life. However, he gets all he w...

2008 | 79 Min
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7.5

A Time for Drunken Ho

After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, needs an immediate operation in order to remain ali...

2000 | 80 Min
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A Time for Drunken Ho

Abadanis

A powerful examination of life during Iran's horrific war with Iraq. Shot in black and white, this film clearly derives inspiration from Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thieves and examines the war through the eyes of Bora, a young boy who fled to Tehran with his family. When his father's car is stolen, ...

1994 | 93 Min
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8.9

Afghan Children

With 3 million illegal Afghan refugees living in Iran, this documentary explores the lives of some of the Afghan children living in Tehran. Focusing on the issues of education and child labour, the film draws attention to the layered political and financial reasons why thousands of such children are...

2002 | 30 Min
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Afghan Children

7.7

Binam Alley

Two families live in the same impoverished neighbourhood but their differing outlooks on life brings them many difficulties. Mehdi lives with his devoutly religious wife and three daughters. In the same building, lives Farzaneh who has lost her husband. She lives with her son and a baby girl. The na...

2016 | 83 Min
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Daughters of the Sun

Born into absolute poverty, a young girl Amangol is forced to shave her head, disguise herself as a boy and go to work as the apprentice of a rug weaver to help pay for her desperately ill mother's medication. As her master's cruel brutality and greed becomes progressively clear, her only comfort co...

2000 | 100 Min
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Death is My Professio

An uncompromising depiction of poverty and the people who live on the fringes, 'Death is My Profession' follows the interwoven stories of several individuals, among them the lovelorn Ghassem, struggling father Atta and reluctant thief Shokri, as they are forced to accept any work to survive. A sombr...

2011 | 86 Min
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6.8

Don

Don is the story of a young boy desperate to find work to help support his family and heroin addicted parents. Moving from employer to employer, Don, aged only 9 and illiterate, faces an almost impossible task without an identity card. Part of the Iranian New Wave, Abolfazl Jalili's use of non-actor...

1998 | 90 Min
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Dreamy

Nazgol is a depressed single woman who lives in a poor area south of Tehran. Financial difficulties have taken their toll, and her life is about to collapse under mounting debt and the pressure to put food on the table. But when she meets Firooz, an attractive factory owner, she embarks on a relatio...

2014 | 100 Min
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Dreamy

Five Stars

A shy, reserved young woman, Maryam, takes a position as a cleaner at an upscale hotel in order to provide financial aid to her mother. As she begins her employment in this new environment, she soon comes to realize that every aspect of her work is rife with politics and hidden agendas. The other cl...

2014 | 90 Min
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6.9

Follow the Money

In Tehran, a community of beggars, under the control of Parviz (Dariush Asadzadeh), give him their takings in the streets in exchange for protection. His right hand man leads the beggars in the south side of the city in their daily pursuits. As Parviz' niece returns to the city to make a documentary...

2000 | 92 Min
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Follow the Money

Forever and a Day

Somayeh is at a loss. Her only desire is to leave her family and take her destiny in hand, yet the love of her sick mother and exceptionally bright brother holds her back. One day her elder brother, Morteza, introduces her to an Afghan who wants to marry her and take her to Afghanistan. Despite her...

2016 | 109 Min
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Forever and a Day

From the Land of Sile

Living in the harsh conditions of the desert, two young brothers resort to a life of crime in order to survive. While one is dangerously involved with opium dealers, the other steals fuel from trucks then sells it back to the drivers. In the midst of an arid landscape, the pair pay little heed to th...

2004 | 66 Min
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8.5

Grey Blood Vessels

This moving documentary short looks at the impoverished existence of a community of Iranian heroin addicts. Whilst the men inject in one room of their dilapidated accommodation, and the women smoke in another, they are visited daily by a group of charity workers who provide them with clean equipment...

2000 | 18 Min
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It's Winter

From one of the most established names of Iranian cinema, comes a subtle and lyrical drama of a man and woman torn by poverty, isolation, and tragic fate. An unemployed man looks for work and love in an unforgiving society during an equally unforgiving winter.

2006 | 78 Min
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8.7

Maybe Some Other Time

Famed actress Susan Taslimi plays three roles here: Kian, who doubts her identity; Vida, the twin sister, a self-assured artist; and their mother, who gives up one child out of fear of poverty, then deprives the other of affection because she deeply regrets the child whom she has abandoned.

1988 | 153 Min
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8.7

Moving Up

Shahriyar is a both a garbage collector and an unpublished novelist who has a passion for literature and poetry. Shahriyar finds it impossible to conform to societyÃ¢ÂÂs expectations; rather, he aspires to be Jack London or Dostoevsky. He writes imaginative stories to escape from his dull, prosaic...

2011 | 59 Min
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7.7

My Little Country

Abbas Mohammadi's documentary tells the story of self-funded schools set up for Afghani children who are forced to seek refuge in Iran. Paid for by parents and taught by women educated at Iran universities, the schools operate on a shoe-string budget, but the film explores how they offer a vital sen...

2008 | 24 Min
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My Mother, Oak

Mahmoud Rahmani's documentary is an exploration of the conflict between environmental concerns and poverty, which developed in the Zagros Mountain regions in the southwest of Iran. In the wake of floods which submerged 63 villages, making 15,000 people homeless, many people were forced to cut down t...

2000 | 51 Min
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Objects In Mirror Are

An intimate drama following the story of Leila, a wife and mother. Expecting her third child and living in a small apartment in Tehran, she divides her time cooking, cleaning and caring for her children. After breaking a plate following a party with neighbors, Leila must search the city to find a re...

2013 | 92 Min
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6.4

Paat

A dog, a big city, two men, three women, one great adventure. The light and shadows of human society is beautifully captured through the eyes of a dog in this episodic narrative. After his master dies, faithful canine companion Paat goes on the run in Tehran, a city where dogs are illegal. Prone to ...

2013 | 76 Min
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7.9

Raspberry

Rezvan is a surrogate for wealthy couple Hamid and Homa. Despite their different outlooks on the world, the couple have trusted her to carry the child they always wanted. However, when a devastating accident takes place, it looks as if Rezvan will have to give up the child. This is not the least of ...

2014 | 90 Min
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8.2

Red Nail Polish

Akram, a girl of 16 years of age, decides to maintain her family's unity despite the death of her drug addict father and her mother's inability to look after her three children. On the way to do so, she turns into a mature woman. Deeply affecting, 'Red Nail Polish' is a beautiful female coming-of-ag...

2016 | 88 Min
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8.4

Scorching Pines

Seven families share a miserable existence in a dilapidated house. Despite their difficulties, they still manage to find happiness in a television set belonging to one of the inhabitants, Mohammad. However, disaster strikes when the TV goes missing. Desperate to restore joy to the household, Mohamma...

1989 | 90 Min
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Scorching Pines

9.2

Seven Acts

'Seven Acts' gets its name from its somewhat episodic nature Ã¢ÂÂ the storyline is broken into segments, each representing a different emotion. The film focuses on four young men who face financial difficulties. When they feel they have no choice but to rob a grocery store to make ends meet, they ...

2000 | 87 Min
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Sun Station

When the bridge is being renovated, Hassan, who is in charge of the old cable car of the river, finds the opportunity to decide which people can cross the river. Each of them has a different story and a different reason to cross the river by the old cable car. Hassan's friend, Asghar, helps him driv...

2012 | 78 Min
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7.5

Tehran is The Capital

In 'Tehran is the Capital of Iran', Kamran Shirdel provides a powerful account of the suffering of those left behind by the Shah's aggressive programmes of modernisation. Striking imagery of the slums in south Tehran is set against the voices of government officials, showing the discrepancy between ...

1966 | 17 Min
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A Simple Event

A Span of Heaven

A Time for Drunken Ho

Abadanis

Afghan Children

Binam Alley

Daughters of the Sun

Death is My Professio

Don

Dreamy

Five Stars

Follow the Money

Forever and a Day

From the Land of Sile

Grey Blood Vessels

It's Winter

Maybe Some Other Time

Moving Up

My Little Country

My Mother, Oak

Objects In Mirror Are

Paat

Raspberry

Red Nail Polish

Scorching Pines

Seven Acts

Sun Station

Tehran is The Capital

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faghr

A Simple Event

A Span of Heaven

A Time for Drunken Ho

Abadanis

Afghan Children

Binam Alley

Daughters of the Sun

Death is My Professio

Don

Dreamy

Five Stars

Follow the Money

Forever and a Day

From the Land of Sile

Grey Blood Vessels

It's Winter

Maybe Some Other Time

Moving Up

My Little Country

My Mother, Oak

Objects In Mirror Are

Paat

Raspberry

Red Nail Polish

Scorching Pines

Seven Acts

Sun Station

Tehran is The Capital

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