#65: Platform
A ROCKY-esque tale of determination and grit, PLATFORM follows three Iranian sisters as they compete to become international champions of Wushu.
#64: Fight Feast
Fight Feast is about the vicissitudinous story of Iranian music between 1979-1989, the years just after the revolution through the end of Iran-Iraq war.
#63: The Story of Boulevard / The Mannequins of Ghale Hassan Khan
The Mannequins of Ghale Hassan Khan tells the story of the birth and life of some mannequins. They are all created in the same way but their faith is not the same
The Story of Boulevard is about one of Tehran’s important streets.
#62: Homework
Kiarostami’s second documentary feature about education, the filmmaker himself asks the questions, probing a succession of invariably cute first- and second-graders about their home situations and the schoolwork they must do there. It emerges that many parents are illiterate. Tellingly, many kids can define punishment but not encouragement.
#61: The Broker
Shot almost entirely inside the confines of their tiny office, The Broker conveys a sense of claustrophobia that mirrors many women's situations and offers a shocking, tragicomic reminder that the fiercest agents of the patriarchy aren't always men.
#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
#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.
#49: The Season of Warm Breezes / Weavers of Imagination (2 films)
The Season of Warm Breezes’ follows a teacher in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province who tries to eradicate illiteracy among female residents.
‘Weavers of Imagination’ recounts the life of a number of visually-impaired people who weave rugs together and how the simple fact of working together fills them with a great
#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).