, 1h40 Directed byMohammad Rasoulof OriginIran GenresDrama ActorsFereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Hasan Pourshirazi, Shahab Hosseini, Behnam Tashakkor, Roya Teymourian Rating68% Une avocate iranienne, traquée et privée du droit d'exercer, vit en recluse. Son mari, journaliste et opposant au régime islamiste, se cache dans le sud du pays. Contre une forte somme d'argent, ils tentent de fuir à l'étranger. Une agence de voyages prépare leur départ sous le couvert « légal » d'un accouchement difficile...
, 1h40 Directed byMohammad Rasoulof OriginIran GenresDrama ActorsFereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Hasan Pourshirazi, Shahab Hosseini, Behnam Tashakkor, Roya Teymourian Rating68% Noura (Leyla Zareh) is an attorney whose license has been revoked by the government, as her resultant attempts at escape meet with ever-mounting roadblocks. Evoking a sense of dread and despair, Rasoulof (himself officially constrained from making more films) constructs a fitting metaphor for the stultifying pressures faced by many in today’s Iran.
, 1h33 Directed byMohammad Rasoulof OriginIran GenresDrama ActorsHasan Pourshirazi Roles Rahmat Rating75% Un homme s’avance sur une barque. Depuis déjà plusieurs années, Rahmat est chargé d’aller recueillir les larmes des habitants des îles voisines sans qu’aucun d’entre eux ne sache pourquoi.
, 1h46 Directed byDariush Mehrjui OriginIran GenresDrama, Musical ActorsBahram Radan, Golshifteh Farahani, Roya Teymourian, Nader Soleimani, Hasan Pourshirazi Roles Addict Rating74% The film begins near the end of the film's timeline. Ali Bolourchi, a santour player (Bahram Radan) narrates his life after his wife Hanieh (Golshifteh Farahani) left him. Ali now makes a living playing music with his band at weddings and house parties where he is often given drugs instead of money to support his heroin addiction. At one of the weddings in which Ali is playing, a mob opposed to the wedding storm the party, beat the guests, destroy the band's instruments and break Ali's arm. The story then flashes back to happier times when Ali and his wife Hanieh are coming up with the lyrics of the song which Ali was singing at the wedding. The film then shows a house party where Ali is performing and his drug use with his friend and band-mate Tamayol (Mahyar Pourhessabi) are highlighted. At the same party Hanieh meets a musician named Javid (Siamak Khahani) who invites Hanieh to join a musical group that plays for charities and goodwill events. The film then shows the downfall of Ali and Hanieh's marriage caused by Ali's increasing drug use as well as his hate for Javid. Ali beats Hanieh and she goes to her mother's (Maedeh Tahmasebi) house. Hanieh later explains to Javid that Ali's tapes and concerts were banned by the government forcing him to play at house parties and weddings to make ends meet, but for payment he was often given drugs and booze instead of money leading to his addiction. Again the film flashes back to happier times, showing how Hanieh and Ali met, their courtship, wedding and the beginnings of their married life.
, 1h47 Directed byBahman Ghobadi OriginFrance GenresDrama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical ActorsGolshifteh Farahani, Hedieh Tehrani, Hasan Pourshirazi Roles Officer Rating71% Mamo, an old Kurdish musician in the twilight of his life, plans to perform one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. The village's elderly warn him that as the moon becomes full, something awful would happen to him and urge him not to proceed with his plan. After several months of trying to overcome the red-tape, he begins a long and dangerous journey along with his sons. Along the way, the group picks up female singer Hesho who resides in a village of 1,334 exiled women singers. This adds to the complications of the trip as Hesho did not have authorization to go into Iraq. Despite all these obstacles, Mamo is determined to continue with his journey across the border.
, 1h43 Directed byDariush Mehrjui OriginIran ActorsParsa Piroruzfar, Amin Hayai, Nasrin Moghanloo, Hasan Pourshirazi Rating70% Mrs. Effat (Golab Adineh), a mother of two, receives word that her nephew and his wife are going to be visiting. Despite not being wealthy, Mr. Effat tries to prepare a respectable dinner party with the help of her cinema loving husband, Mr. Effat (Hasan Pourshirazi) and her two children. Amir and Bahareh. Meanwhile the Effat's drug addict neighbour, Yusuf (Parsa Pirouzfar) is desperate for some drugs after his wife has flushed his stash down the toilet. The eccentric old lady (Farideh Sepah-Mansour) who takes care of her chicken is also not making things much easier...
, 2h25 Directed byBahram Beizai OriginIran GenresDrama, Thriller ActorsMozhdeh Shamsai, Reza Kianian, Dariush Arjmand, Mitra Hajjar, Hasan Pourshirazi Roles Sergeant Naghme Rating76% A businessman in late-1980s Tehran, Nasser Moasser, discovers that his partner has been laundering money and flees the city with the police on his trail. One year later, his wife, Golrokh Kamali, returns from a long absence to find that her husband is gone and that she has been left to resolve his many debts. Eventually, she meets with her husband’s old partner, Javad Moghadam, and learns the truth about his disappearance.