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The story is about a daughter of a noble family in old Tehran named "Mahboobeh" who falls in love with a carpenter's apprentice from their neighborhood. She rejects his suitors and stands up to her family so that they will recognize this love and consent to her marriage to Rahim. Unaware that the wheel of time sometimes does not turn according to the will.
Let's travel to Iran in the final years of World War II. To a story of history, tragedy, love... to mourning Siavash... to Savushun.
Leila, a young provincial girl, has recently married and now lives in Tehran. She and her husband are tenants to a pair of sweet, old ladies named Eti and Aziz. In matters of daily life and her relationship with her husband, Leila deals with all the same feminine preoccupations and concerns... until the event of a party shakes her foundations and turns her simple life upside down.
Breath is about an Iranian family who lives in Iran. It tells the story of Bahar, who is living with her father, Ghafour and Grandmother during the 70s.She is living in her childish and surreal world, filled with their dreams and fantasies.
Olfat is raising her children in hardship. She has one daughter and one son called Yonos who works in Kerman copper mine. One day, she finds a note at home with this massage "My friends and I are going to enter the war as soldiers". After reading this note, Olfat and his friend's parents got worried about their sons. When operation Valfajr failed, they received news about Yonos's friend. Olfat is waiting for her son too. As she finds out that the Iraqi radio announces the Iranian captives' names, she ties a radio on her back and carries it everywhere.
The film tells the story of a woman on the outskirts of the city who lives with her husband and child, but the story of their lives changes.
Taboo is the story of a 67-year-old Iranian landowner in the north of Iran. In spite of having 3 legal wives, he is pushing one of his workers who has a beautiful 24-year-old daughter.
In this farcical comedy, the scheming Behrouz hatches a plan to marry the wealthy Sima in order to become rich. Little does he know, however, that Sima's father has gotten wind of his dastardly motives, and enlists the help of a friend. A lesson in morality, this well-shot film combines the hilarious with bittersweet drama.
In this modern adaptation of the ancient Persian poet Ferdowsi’s epic drama, the puppets set out in search of Rostam, an ancient hero who was abducted. After great hardship they rescue ancient heroes’ puppets that are facing crisis due to a conspiracy by modern robot toys’. Adopting a frame story structure, the film unfolds tales of the puppets appearing in the puppet show in several different layers. Narratively, on one axis it attempts a modernized restoration of the traditional puppet show, on the verge of disappearing, while on the other axis it awakens the ancient spirit of the times, through all the ancient heroes on parade. Tradition and modernity, heroes and villains are not opponents, but harmonize in the film. The puppet shows begin with rap and dance, and actual images and animation are intertwined. Fantasy and reality co-exist in this interesting work in which all the great Iranian heroes appear. Ultimately, it is a heart-warming film that shows harmony and love.
Shooka, a spirited, hardworking girl from an Iranian mountain village is to be married in an arranged marriage. Shokrollah, her neighbor with Down syndrome, has been head over heels in love...