#60: Finding Farideh
An Iranian girl got adopted by a Dutch couple and left Iran to the Netherlands to start her new life. She starts a personal journey to her motherland Iran for the first time to meet three families who claim to be her biological family and to find out about her Iranian identity and culture.
#59: Janbal
Inspired by an ancient Hormoz Island myth in which people sacrifice clothes of the deceased to the sea so that the goddess Sea-Mother will cleanse their souls, Janbal takes stories told by the island’s dwellers as its starting point and playfully finds its form from there.
#58: Like A Woman
A personal look at Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of Iran’s powerful former president, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, is the most news-making woman in the Islamic republic’s history.
#57: Flax to Fire
Flax to Fire depicts the life and work of Aliasghar Hajibaba, an elite Iranian industrialist and entrepreneur.
#56: Puzzleys
“Puzzley” is the name of a four-member group of IT students who, in spite of suitable job opportunities and the opposition expressed by their families, want to start up their own business.
#55: October 13, 1937
‘October 13, 1937’ is a documentary about Iranian-Armenian maestro Loris Tjeknavorian, an Iranian Armenian composer and conductor.
#54: Ali Aqa
Seventy-year-old Ali Aqa’s large, fleshy hands shake as he helps a newborn pigeon chick hatch. His pigeons, which he keeps on the roof of his home, mean everything to him.
#53: MAHAK – A World She Founded
The life of Saideh Ghods changed completely when her two-year-old daughter Kiana was diagnosed with cancer.
#52: Death and the Judge
With more than 4000 death sentences in 45 years, judge Azizmohammadi not only has a record in issuing death sentences in Iran, but also in the world.
