Farid Mostafavi

Tuba works daily at a grueling textile factory in Iran, returning home every night to deal with the rest of her problematic family, which includes: a pregnant daughter whose husband beats her regularly; a teenage son, who's been getting into trouble due to his burgeoning career in radical politics; and an older son who goes to great lengths--such as attempting to sell the family's meager house--in order to get an engineering job in Japan as a means of getting out of Iran.

Set in the 1980s, the film tells the story of Gilane, a woman northern Iran, and her son and daughter, during the Iran-Iraq war.

Spanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young midwife, Mitra, who is serving her sentence for killing her mother's abusive husband. In the early years, Mitra is repeatedly punished as the warden tries to break her. This includes punishment for delivering a baby in the prison cell while all of the prison staff has taken shelter during an Iraqi bombing... (imdb)

The uneasy relationship between a mother and daughter is made all the more turbulent by drug abuse. (nytimes.com)

The effects and consequences for those involved and in the world at large, when a widow and her teenage son, and two young women, one of whom is pregnant, are involved in a car accident which kills the two women. (imdb)

About the characters of Bani-Etemad films.

Betrayal and prejudice make 15-year-old Sougand's fate a bitter one which leads her to becoming lonely and wandering around. After several years, her sister, Banafsheh, decides to find her and reveal the secret which has remained untouched for so many years.

Mohammad Javad Halimi is a simple government's employer who manages after years to buy a house for himself outside the city's limits. But in the second night in his new house a thief is coming to his house. He manages to catch the thief but delivering him to the authorities is another story.