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- DirectorAfshin HashemiStarsAfshin HashemiShabnam MoghadamiAysan HadadBased on Neil Simon's Goodbye Girl it is a romantic story Nasim who is from Abadan and Shabnam a widow who lives with her girl. When they both rent the same house they have to deal with each other until find a solution.
- 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.
- DirectorNima JavidiStarsNavid MohammadzadehParinaz IzadyarSetareh PesyaniA prison is about to be evacuated to make room for an airport expansion project. Major Jahed and his officers are busy transferring all inmates to the new facility, but one inmate is missing.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsShahab HosseiniTaraneh AlidoostiMaral BaniadamWhile Ranaa and Emad, a married couple, are participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," she is assaulted in their new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.
- 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.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsBérénice BejoTahar RahimAli MosaffaAn Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.
- DirectorMehdi KarampourStarsBahram RadanMahnaz AfsharFarhad AslaniWooden Bridge was a passage over the northern trench of old Tehran, connecting the capital to the countryside of Shemiran. A connection between old Tehran and modern Tehran.
- DirectorMohammad Ali TalebiStarsPayam ErisMasume ShakoriAsadolah AsadniaCaptivating images from pastoral northern Iran serve as a backdrop for Mohammad-Ali Talebi's enchanting tale of a boy rendered mute after losing his mother in the Iran-Iraq war. Ostracized by his classmates but doted over by his loving sister, eight-year-old Sahand--whose wan face and haunted eyes evince the unspeakable horrors he's witnessed--becomes obsessed with a wounded white goose. Making wondrous use of classic fantasy elements (the climax unfolds in a misty, magical forest), Wind and Fog is humanist film making at its most affecting.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsPayman MaadiLeila HatamiSareh BayatA married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
- 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.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsHediyeh TehraniTaraneh AlidoostiHamid FarrokhnezhadOn the last Wednesday before the spring solstice ushers in the Persian New Year, people set off fireworks following an ancient Zoroastrian tradition. Rouhi, spending her first day at a new job, finds herself in the midst of a different kind of fireworks -- a domestic dispute between her new boss and his wife.
- DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsIsmail GhaffariAllah-Morad RashtianFarzin SabooniMamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus, denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway there, the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho, which will only add to the difficulty of the undertaking, as it is forbidden for Iranian women to sing in public, let alone in the company of men. But Mamo is determined to carry through, if not for the gullible antics of the bus driver.
- DirectorSaman MoghadamStarsFarhad AeeshReza AhadiPegah AhangaraniAn invitation for a famous Iranian bandmaster, Maxx, living in a foreign country, is accidentally sent to a young cabaret singer with the same name.
- DirectorArash MoayerianStarsMahnaz AfsharHadis FoladvandMohammad Reza GolzarA young doctorate graduate and son of a religon-exploiting rich man, in the verge of leaving Iran for the United States is confronted with events and accidents, hindering while educating him of the other classes in Iranian society.
- DirectorFarzad MotamenStarsMehdi AhmadiHanieh TavassoliMohsen Shah-EbrahimiBright Nights is the story of the lives of two lonely people. The film tells the story of how the two characters met, became attached and separated from the language of a university professor.
- DirectorAlireza RaisianStarsLeila HatamiNezam ManouchehriMehran RajabiOn a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple's transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go off to find a spare part, the wife, who used to be a teacher, takes over the teaching lessons in the village. It is clear that the children live there, in this strange deserted place, without any men, save the teacher and an old signal guard. As the day draws on, the children help to bring a new hope and life into the wife's heart.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsHamid FarrokhnezhadLeila HatamiGohar KheirandishA domestic Iranian flight is taken hostage by a man Ghasem who is a refugee of war and has financial problems. He will go any distance for his family and wants to find a better place for living.
- DirectorTahmineh MilaniStarsNiki KarimiMohammad NikbinAtila PesianiAn official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.
- DirectorMajid MajidiStarsHossein AbediniZahra BahramiMohammad Amir NajiIn 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 their lives.
- DirectorMehdi FakhimzadehStarsMehdi FakhimzadehRoya NonahaliMerila Zare'iBehruz who has mental illness and lives with his brother's family meets Shirin a widow with two kids. They decide to get marry in secret but when their secret revealed the problems for them begin.
- DirectorReza KarimiReza MirkarimiStarsAfsoon AfsharSaleh Mirza AghayiFariborz ArabniaIn a modern day Iran, a Persian female attorney fights for custody of her seven year old diabetic son following a divorce with her husband. When the courts rule against her favor. She takes despair actions that lead to tragic events.
- DirectorRakhshan BanietemadStarsGolab AdinehMohammad Reza ForutanBaran KosariA valuable visual commentary on modern society, 'Under The Skin Of The City' follows one Iranian family in their eternal struggle to stay afloat financially and emotionally. Touba works hard at a textile factory to make ends meet during the day, returning in the evening to face the trials and tribulations of her family: her pregnant daughter who frequently suffers at the hands of her abusive husband, a son embroiled in radical politics, and another son who hopes to escape to Japan. In their fight for self-determination and independence, Touba and her family come to represent the plight of the working class in modern day Tehran.
- DirectorSirus AlvandStarsAbolfazl PoorarabHediyeh TehraniAsal BadeeiDiba and Siamak with the help of a young couple Nader and Roya decide to steal from a wedding ceremony. They steal some jewelry and escape but the cops are after them.
- DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsAyoub AhmadiRojin YounessiAmaneh Ekhtiar-diniYoung Iranian Kurdish siblings try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.