#8: Be Like Others
More than 20 years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini issues a fatwa to make sex change permissible for “diagnosed transsexuals”. "Be Like Others" is an intimate and unflinching look at life in Iran through the eyes of young men choosing to undergo sex-change surgery,
#6: My Name Is Negahdar Jamali And I Make Westerns
Negahdar Jamali has been making Western films continuously for the past 35 years under hard conditions, and this film is about the struggle with his family, friends, society, and others to make what he likes the most in his life “Western Movies”.
#5: Lady of the Roses / Back Vocal (2 films)
Shahindokht Sanati replaced poppies with roses and opium with rosewater and took this so far as to transform the agricultural destiny of a whole region. / The struggles of contemporary Iranian singers and musicians working to be heard in their own country.
#4: Kahrizak, Four Views
Four directors of different ages and levels of experience, each present a view of the Kahrizak Charity Centre, introducing us to fascinating characters and rituals, and a reflection on life and death itself.
#3: Bassidji
For three years, Mehran Tamadon immersed himself into the very heart of the most extremist supporters of the Islamic Republic of Iran (the Bassidjis) to understand their ideas.
#1 Statues of Tehran
Statues of Tehran interrogates the function of monuments in today’s Tehran, an ideology-ridden postmodern megalopolis, afflicted with forgetfulness.