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A man who is tired of life wants to commit suicide. He sets off to find someone to bury him after he is dead. Farsi dialogue. Includes 10 on Ten a cinema materclass that offers 10 fascinating lessons ... Read more

For a soccer-mad young girl, a crucial world cup qualifying match for Iran's national football team at the Azadi stadium in Teheran is the game of her dreams. But with women banned from the country's ... Read more

Made in Afghanistan, after the fall of the Taliban regime, Samira Makhmalbaf's film is set in the ruined city of Kabul. Noqreh is a young woman who chooses to attend a secular school for girls, ... Read more

Banned in Iran, Jafar Panahi's THE CIRCLE is set almost entirely on the busy streets of Tehran - a place where women are restricted by numerous laws, including a repressive dress code, and can only ... Read more

For her first film, THE DAY I BECAME A WOMAN, Marziyeh Meshkini, the wife of Iran's most prominent filmmaker, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, has crafted a mystical three-part allegorical vision of the ... Read more

Survival is not enough. Fariba Tabrizi has made it. Under peril of death she has fled from Iran. In Germany she has no alternative way of avoiding the threat of deportation other than to assume the ... Read more

The true story of an unemployed movie lover who passes himself off as a celebrated film director.

A thoughtful and emotionally challenging look at the lives of two children living in modern day Afghanistan, STRAY DOGS lifts the lid on what it is like living in the country, post-Taliban. The film ... Read more

We see an attack on a jeweller’s shop in Teheran. The raid gets totally out of hand. Before the film has picked up speed, the attacker has pointed the gun at his own temple. Panahi then cuts to pizza ... Read more

"It's Winter" begins as a man leaves his wife and daughter in Tehran to search for work abroad. Months pass and the family hear no word from him. Meanwhile a stranger arrives in town in search of ... Read more