Navíd Akhavan

This story about two college students addresses the cultural divisions facing us in the 21st Century and the spread of terrorism that can foment and stem from these divisions. (Films Philos)

Originally "Unveiled" was titled "Fremde Haut" which means In Orbit -- the term officially used by the UN to refer to asylum-seekers who find themselves orbiting around planet Earth because they can actually find legal domicile nowhere at all. Fariba, prosecuted in Iran because of her love for a woman, flees to Germany. (Wolfe Releasing)

Anam is about 40 years old and a traditionalistic Turkish wife and mother who lives with her family in a German city. Anam works as a cleaner and has made two friends there: Rita a man-crazy German and Didi a superstitious African. When Anam finds out that her twenty-year old son Deniz has drifted into the drug scene and that her husband Mehmet is having an affair with a colleague her whole world collapses around her. (imdb)

To save the family's butchery from insolvency smallish, sensitive Mohsen heads to Poland to buy low-priced sheep...

Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship (imdb)

Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas. (imdb)

This documentary portrays the hope for change before the 2009 Iranian presidential elections and the human rights violations led by the government afterwards. It uses interviews, real footage and animation...