Movies: Golshifteh Farahani

The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years. With faith as their only guide, the two journ...

This is about a father and his daughter who has been injured from the mines from Iran-Iraq war....

While Nooran, learns the ancient art of healing with music from her mother, Aadam a camel trader listens to her sing and falls in love with her and they marry. But soon, Nooran discovers treachery and must avenge herself and rediscover her lost song....

Baran, a war hero, becomes sheriff of the capital and refuses to bow down to a tribal chief....

Mariam is a young girl growing up in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Although she is quite innocent, her conservative father keeps thinking that she has relations with other boys which leads ......

A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit....

The life of Gabrielle, head of surgery in Paris, married, childless...

What appears to be a grand love story turns sour when parents-to-be discover that their unborn child will likely be born with serious birth defects, as a result of the mother's exposure to chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. The father does no...

Artists forced to leave their country talk about the ambivalence of exile. With Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, Sudanese graphic designer Anwar, and members of the Russian feminist protest group Pussy Riot....

Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she comes back to Lebanon, she realizes she's a foreigner in her own country. But there's still a place she calls home: an abandoned house in ruins, haunted by the presence of her grandfather who dis...

Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report dives into the artistic world of Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui. The film offers critical interpretations of his works from cinema experts, enriched with personal anecdotes from his peers....

Frida, a young hen, wants to be a singer. However, her village is directed by strong rules: only chickens are allowed to sing, hens should be brood. In order to escape her fate, she decides to rebel and become a singer....

Five characters are stuck on an island, from where they hope to escape to "somewhere else", the utopia of their dreams. Dr. Tavussi (Ahmad Najafi) offers to help them illegally cross the ......

Various Iranian women watch Romeo and Juliet and cry....

Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family because of this profession, which they despise. He falls for one of his...

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A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…...

A couple who had a romantic marriage and life now are about to get divorce but meanwhile many people are intervening....

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The film centers on a flock of birds who are the sole survivors of a man-made natural disaster. Leading the avian gang is Hod-Hod, a young adventurous hoopoe who sets off on a quest to meet the legendary bird Simorgh, rumored to hold the key to solvi...