#47: Exilic Trilogy
Three arthouse docudrama films about a well-known musician (Soleyman Vaseghi, a.k.a. Soli), a painter (Gholamhossein Nami) and a poet (Reza Baraheni).
#46: 20th Circuit Suspects
After having his car stolen, the director meets Ehsan, the leader of an adolescent crime gang that breaks into cars regularly.
#45: A Waltz for Tehran / Night Shift (2 films)
Mehrdad Mehdi, one of the pioneers of street music in Iran, decides to get his old band members together to start a street music festival in Tehran.
Watch what takes place in Tehran from sunset to sunrise when most people are deep asleep! A stunningly beautiful visual journey through the lives
#44: Scorpio / Javad (2 films)
In 1971 three young musicians set out to perform the euphoric rock’n roll and Latin hits of their time on the stages of Tehran.
Javad Yassari’s songs are emotional roller-coasters of love, loss, and loneliness.
#43: Boys With Broken Ears
An intimate look at the hopes and struggles of a handful of young Iranian wrestlers as they prepare for the biggest event of their lives; the world championship in Europe. It’s a social tale set against the qualms of committing one’s life to a dream at a young age.
#42: IRAN’S ARROW – The Rise and Fall of Paykan
On the spring of 1967, when the first Paykan rolled off the assembly line on an outskirt of Tehran, no one thought this car would be produced for 38 years, or that it could have such an impact on a whole nation.
#41: Out of Focus / Promised Land (2 films)
Born and raised in Iran, Afshin Naghouni suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury during a birthday party in Tehran when he fell from the seventh floor of a building while trying to escape from Iranian police.
Max, one of the millions of immigrants in the world is trying to find his
#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.