Roya Nonahali

Death surrounds Bahman, a director who hasn't made a film in 24 years (he can't get past the censors). He's working on a documentary, for Japanese TV, on Iranian burial practices. On the anniversary of his wife's death, a hitchhiker tells him a story of spousal abuse and infant mortality, he discovers that someone has been buried in his plot next to his wife, and he needs the help of his attorney, a well-connected fixer. He dreams of death, even as he investigates it for his film.

After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant, run by four women, one of them a girl whom he once dated. Attieh, the girl, tries to convince him not to sell the place by, instead of telling him a story a day as Sheherazade, cooking him a delicious dish every day. (imdb)

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show. (Venice Film Festival)

Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life. (imdb)

A Piece of Bread is an ensemble piece about the reaction to an apparent miracle in a small town. Sent to investigate are a respected local mullah, a rigid army officer and a naïve young recruit. Several story lines intertwine in the course of a journey to the site of the reputed miracle. (international.ucla.edu)

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)

There's a murder in an apartment, all of neighbors are included and make their own story about the sounds they heard!

A man wakes in a wheat field with no memory. Is he dead? Is this purgatory? As he struggles to discover who he is, he is faced with startling revelations about himself and those around him. After being informed that he has a daughter, who has been taken hostage due to his part in a dangerous drug deal gone wrong. Will he be able to find the drugs, save the girl and figure out whom to trust? (iffa.net)

After his wife and daughter lose touch with him, Habib starts losing his memory to the point of Alzheimer. (imdb)

The movie narrates the story of a handsome young singer who is hired and unexpectedly, a romantic relationship begins to develop between him and an older, widowed woman, though neither is immediately aware of the other's emotions. This relationship creates as much chaos as it does tenderness (imdb).

The fight for power in an isolated village. Two families have been enemies for so long they cannot even remember why. The only hope for peace between the feuding families is lost when an arranged marriage agreement is broken. Some days later, the groom, Karamat, returns with a brand new minibus. But a fierce competition for passengers break out when the bride, Mehrbanou, decides to do the same. (Gordon Spragg)

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.

Taher Mohebi is a well-known writer who, after witnessing a violent murder, breaks down and spends three years in a mental institution. After release he is told that things are just as they were before, but his relentless hallucinations make him want to return to the institution. (imdb)

Police officers try to stand up against the prevalent drug trade in Iran and bring down the gangs that perpetuate it to end the threat they pose to the country at large. (elcinema)

A group of residents get caught up in a murder case after a corpse is found in their apartment building. The police come across many clues that lead to the discovery of this crime. (imdb)

Alborz Shams, a resident of Germany, returns to Iran for the death of his father, but in Iran everyone calls him Farhad Babaei and no one remembers him, not even his love Sara. (imdb)

This Reality-TV shows talented people and make a race between them. (imdb)

Fereshte is killed on her wedding night. Fereshte's ex-fiancé is a young man named Peyman who, according to the evidence, is accused of murder and arrested but... (yjc.ir)

Mahrokh is an obstetrics and gynecology specialist, but she does not have children herself. She decides to find a surrogate. After a woman agrees to cooperate, she falls in love with the child and finally runs away from the doctor's house. Finally, this woman, who has no place, is forced to sleep on the street and meets different people of the society with different morals, behavior and intellectual character. (wikipedia.org)

An author (Raha) dreams of writing an extraordinary story. A special moment comes when the dream comes true and the ability to write a fantastic story is emerged, but it is apparently too late. the story is all about Raha's problem in this situation.