#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.
#29: Kiarostami – The Art of Living / Roads (2 films)
A unique film essay on the world-renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami / Looking to his own art for inspiration, Abbas Kiarostami reflects on the power of landscape.
#22: Dingomaro
Since his Internet hit, “Bad Shans” (hard luck), Hamid Said has become one of the most famous black musicians in Iran. He’s traveling by motorbike across the province of Hormozgan, which is situated in the South of the country on the Persian Gulf,
#20: The Glass House
The fringes of Iranian society can be a lonely place, especially if you are a teenage girl with few resources to fall back on.
#18: Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
The film looks at Kiarostami’s career, finding themes and stylistics that have reoccurred throughout his canon, from his early shorts to his later international successes, with a special focus on his first feature, 1977’s The Report.
#16: Going Up the Stairs / Behjat Sadr (2 films)
Akram, an illiterate Iranian woman, shows us that true talent will always refuse to be stifled and that you don’t need an education to understand, to feel, and to paint. / With a career spanning more than fifty years, Behjat Sadr is one of only a handful of women artists
#15: Monir
Monir (2014) is a documentary about the life and work of Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian. Farmanfarmaian pioneered new forms of geometric mirror works in the 1970s, creating an artistic language informed by traditional Iranian craft and her formative years spent in New York. The film explores a range of
#11: Infidels / Pilgrimage (2 films)
A documentary about the Godars, Artist-Gypsies Living in Iran. / Despite the threat of mines, assassination, and death by dehydration and starvation determined Shiite Muslims as many as 3,000 a day, have been pouring across the Iran-Iraq border since the fall of the Iraqi government.