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- DirectorMaziar MiriStarsParviz ParastuiDarine HamzeDavood Fathali BeigiRahman falls in love with a Christan woman from Lebanon. She becomes a Muslim before her second meeting with Rahman.
- DirectorEbrahim HatamikiaStarsHamid FarrokhnezhadLeila HatamiGohar KheirandishA domestic Iranian flight is taken hostage by a man Ghasem who is a refugee of war and has financial problems. He will go any distance for his family and wants to find a better place for living.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHomayoun ErshadiAbdolhosein BagheriAfshin Khorshid BakhtiariAn Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHossain SabzianMohsen MakhmalbafAbolfazl AhankhahThe true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.
- DirectorRakhshan BanietemadStarsGolab AdinehMohammad Reza ForutanBaran KosariA valuable visual commentary on modern society, 'Under The Skin Of The City' follows one Iranian family in their eternal struggle to stay afloat financially and emotionally. Touba works hard at a textile factory to make ends meet during the day, returning in the evening to face the trials and tribulations of her family: her pregnant daughter who frequently suffers at the hands of her abusive husband, a son embroiled in radical politics, and another son who hopes to escape to Japan. In their fight for self-determination and independence, Touba and her family come to represent the plight of the working class in modern day Tehran.
- DirectorBahram TavakoliStarsFatemah Motamed-AriaSaber AbarNegar JavaherianThe story is about the world of a small family with familiar dreams and not so remarkable problems. The mother is trying to lead everything to save her family, but small events disarrange all her plans.
- DirectorFardin Saheb-ZamaniStarsAli MosaffaLeila HatamiMahtab KeramatiA pensive taxi driver living the ordinary tedious life is little-by-little altered by one of his usual passengers: a talkative female doctor.
- DirectorParviz ShahbaziStarsMansour ShahbaziMaryam PalizbanSaid AminiThis is about two guys who are departed from their family in totally different ways, they are anti social and try to live in a large city without any money, one of them fall in love and another one got addicted.
- DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsKhosro ShakibaiEzzatolah EntezamiHossein SarsharHamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph. D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.
- DirectorMajid MajidiStarsHossein MahjoubMohsen RamezaniSalameh FeyziThe story of Mohammed, a blind Iranian boy and his father, Hashem, who is always oscillating between accepting his son as he is and abandoning him, as he represents a burden for him, after the loss of his wife.
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsAida MohammadkhaniMohsen KafiliFereshteh Sadre OrafaiySeveral people try to help a little girl to find the money her mom gave her to buy a goldfish with.
- DirectorAbdolreza KahaniStarsReza AttaranHabib RezaeiMahtab KeramatiA corrupted police officer insists on bribing a broke man, so he has to go to everybody and do everything in order to be able to pay him in the very night.
- DirectorMojtaba MirtahmasbJafar PanahiStarsJafar PanahiIgiMrs. GheiratIt's been months since Jafar Panahi, stuck in jail, has been awaiting a verdict by the appeals court. By depicting a day in his life, Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb try to portray the deprivations looming in contemporary Iranian cinema.
- DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsBehrouz VossoughiMonica BellucciYilmaz ErdoganKurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks him dead for over twenty years.
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsMina Mohammad KhaniKazem MojdehiNaser OmuniWhen a young girl becomes lost in the hustle and bustle of Tehran, her journey turns into a dazzling exercise on the nature of film itself.
- DirectorBehrouz ShoaybiStarsReza AttaranHanieh TavassoliMohammad Reza ShirkhanlooShiva (Hanieh Tavassoli) is the family head and looks after her little son, Amir Ali; a witty and playful boy, in the absence of her husband, Behzad (Reza Attaran) who has committed a murder in a fight on a parking space with another man. Now he is in prison and waiting for his verdict. Amir Ali is a first grader and thinks his father is dead, but after visiting him in the prison he gets depressed. Shiva visits the murdered man's brother-in-law everyday and asks him to talk to his family in order to get their approval to be paid the Blood money. The victim's twin sister is very persistent on doing the Equal retaliation and they can't get her satisfaction. Mr. Izadi (Shahrokh Foroutanian), the warden and his wife (Afsaneh Chehreh Azad) who is a social worker also try to help Behzad. Meanwhile, the visits between Amir Ali and Behzad becomes more and more intimate after Behzad gives his son a wooden horse which he has made in prison. Behzad is a former English teacher and teaches one of the guards privately to make him ready for the entrance exams. Because of his good behavior, Behzad gets a three day permission to go home. This out-of-prison visits improves Amir Ali's self-confidence and he becomes calmer and even his grades are better now. Finally Mr. Izadi takes Amir Ali to the victim's house where his mother is speechless for five years because of her son's death. Amir Ali apologizes for his father's action in a childish way and makes the mother cry. But we don't know whether her response is to forgive or to execute Behzad.
- DirectorMehdi KarampourStarsBahram RadanMahnaz AfsharFarhad AslaniWooden Bridge was a passage over the northern trench of old Tehran, connecting the capital to the countryside of Shemiran. A connection between old Tehran and modern Tehran.
- DirectorKianoush AyariStarsMehdi HashemiShahab HosseiniMehran RajabiThe consequences of a father and son's violent act reverberate through three generations of their family.
- DirectorReza MirkarimiStarsReza KianianNegar JavaherianFarhad AslaniThe story happens in an old house in an old city of Iran. Because of the wedding of the youngest sister, Pasandide, all of her sisters come to their old house to help their mother.
- DirectorPouran DerakhshandehStarsTannaz TabatabaeiMerila Zare'iBabak HamidianShirin is supposed to get married in a couple of hours, but she unexpectedly murders a man. The cause of the crime, rooted in her nightmarish childhood, unravels gradually and the real question emerges: Who is the REAL criminal?
- DirectorReza AttaranStarsReza AttaranMerila Zare'iAkbar AbdiReza is a naive and honest middle age teacher that has difficulties in communicating with women. He meets a gummies saleswoman.
- DirectorMostafa KiaeiStarsMostafa ZamaniHanieh TavassoliMohsen KiayeeA hacker group empty a bank account of a big strong person. The story goes on and now they must pay for that.
- DirectorAli MosaffaStarsLeila HatamiAli MosaffaAlireza AghakhaniA dead man tells us about his feelings and his life.
- DirectorSafi YazdanianStarsLeila HatamiAli MosaffaMohammad DezfulizadehA woman comes back from Paris to her country after a long time. She meets a man that she hardly knows, but he knows a lot about her life.
- DirectorKamal TabriziStarsReza AttaranPantea BahramBahareh RahnamaAfter an unexpected incident happens for a middle-aged man's dead wife's corpse, he gets very depressed, anxious and violent.