#40: Scenes from a Divorce
A young Iranian couple gets divorced after eight years of marriage, but they decide to continue living together in the same apartment to hide the news from the wife’s religious parents who won’t tolerate the idea.
#39: 76′ 15″ with Abbas Kiarostami
A beautiful, understated and inspiring tribute to this giant of cinema by simply allowing us to watch, without commentary, Kiarostami at work.
#38: Plane Grove
This is the story and history of the longest street in the Middle East that expands 17 km from the south to the northern parts of the city of Tehran.
#37: Decadence and Downfall – The Shah of Iran’s Ultimate Party
In 1971, the Shah of Iran, the self-proclaimed ‘king of kings’, celebrated 2,500 years of the Persian monarchy by throwing the greatest party in history.
#36: Sonita
If 18-year old Sonita, a refugee from Afghanistan, had a say in things, Michael Jackson would be her father and Rihanna her mother.
#35: Sohrab, A Journey
In 1969, a young man of 26 years of age returns to his country Iran after years of studying cinema and going through the hardship of living abroad as a university student.
#34: Six Centuries, Six Years
Six Centuries, Six Years portrays the endeavors of a group of Iranian master musicians who are trying to locate, restore and record a repertoire of compositions attributed to Abd al-Qadir Maraghi, a prominent composer who lived six centuries ago and greatly influenced the Middle Eastern classical music.
#33: Residents of One Way Street
A documentary about the lives and memories of six residents of one street in Tehran: The current ‘Si-ye Tir’ or the former 'Qavam-o-Saltaneh’ Street, located in District 12 of Tehran.
#32: Relationships
“Relationship” is a documentary about short-term relationships among young adults in Tehran, where emotional relationships don’t seem to work very well, and people don’t seem to be satisfied with their relationships anymore.
#31: All My Trees
Mahlagha Mallah is Iran’s eldest environmental activist and the founder of the first environmental NGO in Iran.