Best of Iranian Cinema
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- DirectorReza KhatibiStarsFarhad AeeshArman AfifehAfsaneh Bayegan
- DirectorMasud KimiaiStarsBehrouz VossoughiFaramarz GharibianNosrat PartoviThe Deer is a typical Kimiai-style tale of friendship and honour. When a good man fallen on hard times meets his erstwhile protégé, fate puts their relationship to the ultimate test: will you die for me?
- DirectorJamshid MahmoudiStarsNoor Agha AhmadiMahdi EbadiHasiba EbrahimiA romance blooms between a young Iranian man working in a factory in Tehran and the daughter of an Afghan worker.
- DirectorMohammad Hossein MahdavianStarsSaed SoheiliZiba KaramaliHamid FarrokhnezhadAmir Ali and Nooshin are two youngsters who are in love and want to get marry with each other while their families are in disagree with them. They both have only one dream, to win in the Lottery and get the green card and go living in USA.
- DirectorSafi YazdanianStarsLeila HatamiAli MosaffaMohammad DezfulizadehA woman comes back from Paris to her country after a long time. She meets a man that she hardly knows, but he knows a lot about her life.
- DirectorMani HaghighiStarsAmir JadidiEhsan GoodarziHomayoun GhanizadehAn orange Chevrolet Impala drives across a cemetery towards an abandoned shipwreck in the middle of a desert landscape. It is the 22nd of January, 1965. The day before, the Iranian prime minister was shot dead in front of the parliament building.
- DirectorAli HatamiStarsBehrouz VossoughiJamshid MashayekhiFakhri KhorvashDesiderium lyrically charts the hapless loves of three brothers: Majid, the young handicapped brother with a deformed head who falls in love with Aghdas, a prostitute hired by his eldest brother Habib to entertain him, not knowing the truth about her profession. Karim, the middle brother is so infatuated with a quail that he almost completely ignores his wife and her emotions. Habib himself is in love with Foroogh, a tailor lady who lives with them, while his sense of responsibility about Majid keeps him from requiting her affections.
- DirectorAli MosaffaStarsMagdaléna BorováAntonie FormanováLeila HatamiRouzebeh travels from Tehran, far from his troubled family life, to Prague, investigating his father's path as a communist expatriate. Yet each clue he finds deepens the mystery into the man he thought he knew.
- DirectorMehdi KarampourStarsNiki KarimiKhosro ShakibaiElnaz ShakerdoostAmir is dead and all the people around him are accused of his murder. But as the investigations go further more interesting things appear to everyone.
- DirectorHamid NematollahStarsMohammad Reza GolzarGolshifteh FarahaniReza RooygariEti, a 17-year-old girl from a poor family, wants to escape her infernal class boundaries with the help of Jahan, a young man.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsTaraneh AlidoostiGolshifteh FarahaniShahab HosseiniThe mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
- DirectorSaeed RoustayiStarsPayman MaadiNavid MohammadzadehParinaz IzadyarThe police are after a drug lord named Naser Khakzad, but when they finally manage to catch him, he tries whatever he can think of to escape and save his family.
- DirectorKamal TabriziStarsParviz ParastuiBahram EbrahimiReza SaeediA recently jailed petty thief disguises as a Mullah and succeeds in escaping; but has to stay in the Mullah' role longer than he expected to.