Movies

Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length –...

After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two Iranian sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the...

Khorshid, a blind child growing up in Tajikistan, is constantly distracted by music and sounds. This frequently causes him to be late to his job as...

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during...

Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of...

The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay...

An Iranian actor named Akbar is trying to become a serious actor instead of the clown everyone considers him to be. However financial problems force...

A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.

Homo Cinematographicus is a human species whose unit of measurement and point of reference is the cinema and its derivative, television. Filmed at...

Documentary showing the life of children of the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by Taliban regime.

Documentary showing the backstage of production of Samira Makhmalbaf's film Panj É Asr(At Five in the Afternoon), in Kabul, after the fall of...

Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers.

The film and camera of Maysam Mkhamlbaf, Samira's brother follows her like an invisible eye. From her first subconscious presence as an actor, when...

Iranian Samira Makhmalbaf short for 11′09″01 September 11 The news of the September 11, 2001 attacks reaches an Afghan refugee camp,...

It is a story of a unique family in the world; A documentary on how a former political imprisoned revolutionary in a religious closed society like...

Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf claims to have never seen a movie before making his first film. Doubtful as it sounds, this boast matches perfectly with...