Movies: Iran

The story is about a doll named Amo Pumble who teaches children how to live in society by reading a magic book to children....

Rain Tree (Persian: درخت بارانی‎‎) is a 2001 Iranian drama film Written and directed by Hossein Shahabi....

A boy has been fishing for some time in a grounded ship at the zero point border. He has chosen the place for his seclusion and serenity when the appearance a stranger takes away his peace and his work....

A short film on early 1950s Iran....

Hamid is an Iranian teenage boy whose sexuality brings him into conflict with his family's Muslim beliefs....

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"Everybody should have a home. If you punish a nation, this is so abstract, it's very mean to use your power to put another country in your control... Instead of punishment, maybe we should have love." Eliane from Chile, Milad from Iran, and Georgia...

"Slaughter" is an experimental short film that delves into the archival and historical footage of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, depicting a symbolic narrative surrounding the ritualistic act of animal sacrifice, known as "Besmel." It serves as an a...

Endless powder fields and a magnitude of potential lines aren't immediately what you may think of when talking about Iran... This mini documentary tells the story of Iranian pro snowboarder Mona Seraji who invites two fellow snowboarders from Austra...

Siavash Shahabi film made in 2011....

Bright Shadow (Persian: سايه روشن‎‎) is a 1997 Iranian drama film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)...

It is a half-an-hour Persian documentary movie, released by Kaleme website which is about Misrhossein Mousavi and the 2009 Iran coup detat....

A young boy influenced by the stories of a kind nurse and his imagination hurry to the rescue of a little girl who has cancer....

Documentary filmmaker Morteza Hosseini fell into a coma in 2008 on a remote road and his wife, Maryam Sharifi, disappeared. He and his friend Majid Shokri and Yaser Jafari were making a documentary about the transcendental forces, as if Morteza's dep...

The Last Jews of Baghdad takes a historical and personal look at the persecution, torture, escape and exodus of over 160,000 Iraqi- Jews between the years 1940 through 2003. Hear from the survivors the real reasons why they left their beloved homelan...

In 1972, Bahman Maghsoudlou made a short film about Iranian artist Ardeshir Mohasses. For 36 years, this remained the only film about this internationally acclaimed artist. In 2008, spurred by a New York retrospective of Mohasses's work and the artis...

Family videos are odd objects. You can sit around all together and for a few hours relive your life. Family videos are valuable. The older the videos are, the more valuable they become for us. Especially for those of us who have had complicated lives...

The Journey of a young man who is making a documentary about forgotten narratives around an old piano, takes him through an unknown path towards restoring history, culture and identity of his homeland, Iran, in dusty and abandoned objects....

An Iranian film...

Behnaz is a really talented football player. Her dream is to play for the Iranian national football team and play in the best European leagues. She trains hard and is determined, but being a girl and living in a small town in Iran presents difficulti...