Bahman Kiarostami

Impasse (2024)

Rahmaneh spent her first two decades fully veiled, like her mother Elahe, as part of a deeply religious family. Now 37, she is at the forefront of Iran's protest movement and at odds with her father and the culture he created. This film shows her struggle ...

Fereydoun In Late Summer (2023)

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Golestan House (2021)

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Parvaneh (2021)

A documentary about Iranian artist Parvaneh Etemadi ...

Leech (2021)

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The Lowland (2021)

"Lowland" is the result of 5 years, daily communication with those who lived on the outskirts of Tehran, Saeed's dumpsite, and collected recyclable garbages of Tehran. ...

Exodus (2019)

Since Iran opened its borders to refugees of the Soviet–Afghan War in 1979, it has become home to as many as 2.5 million Afghans, half of whom are undocumented. When renewed US sanctions in 2018 caused a currency collapse in Iran, the vulnerable populati ...

Monir (2017)

This documentary looks at the life and work of Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, who first garnered attention in the 1970s when she pioneered contemporary forms of geometric mirror works. Monir created an artistic language that was informed by ...

Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report (2016)

Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report dives into the artistic world of Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui. The film offers critical interpretations of his works from cinema experts, enriched with personal anecdotes from his peers. ...

Like Someone in Love (2012)

An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circu ...

The Concert that was not Performed (2010)

This movie is a documentary about Parviz Yahaghi, one of the most famous composers and musicians in Iran, who became isolated after the revolution due to the conditions in Iran. Born in 1935, Parviz Yahaghi, was a regular on the radio show 'Golha' from a y ...

Certified Copy (2010)

In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. ...

Shirin (2009)

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 -- ...

Dead End (2008)

Documentary about Babak Bayat (Persian: بابک بیات)(13 June 1946 – 26 November 2006). Babak Bayat was an Iranian songwriter and film score composer. He was repeatedly nominated for the Crystal Simorgh award in the field of the soundtrack at the Fa ...

The Treasure Cave (2008)

The Treasure Cave centers on the famous Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, which is widely considered to be the region's most important store of modern Western art: Picasso, Chagall, Warhol, Bacon and possible the best Jackson Pollock outside of the United ...

Persian Carpet (2007)

Persian Carpet is an omnibus film produced by Iran's National Carpet Center and Farabi Cinema Foundation where 15 renowned Iranian directors contributed films on the subject of Persian carpet. Carpets are the reflection of the cultural and historical ident ...

The Red Card (2006)

Documentary about the 2002 murder of Iranian football star Nasser Mohammad Khani's wife, the subsequent confession to the crime by his mistress Shahla and her fight to escape the death sentence. ...

Iran in Announcements (2006)

The documentary "Iran in Announcements", a research documentary about announcements in Iran, is from the early years of the announcement of Iran to the arrival of the Islamic Revolution. ...

Behjat Sadr: Time Suspended (2006)

Behjat Sadr is one of the pioneers and masters of modern art in Iran. This film is a journey into the life and works of a poetic and brilliant painter. Ms. Sadr guides us through her intense, find compelling canvases, order musing on her process, pharmacy ...

Being Farmanara (2006)

This documentary looks at different aspects of the life of Bahman Farmanara, the well known Iranian film director and producer. ...

Pilgrimage (2005)

After Saddam Hussein's removal from power, Iranians rushed to cross the unguarded border with Iraq to visit the shrines of Shi'ism in Karbala and Najaf. ...

A Good Time for Tragedy (2005)

A documentary dealing with the life of Ahmadreza Ahmadi, an Iranian Poet. ...

Journey to the Land of the Traveler (2004)

Twenty years after The Traveler was made, Kiarostami's son filmed his father as he reunited with the film's child star, now in his 30s. ...

Persian Garden (2004)

Persian Garden, gives a behind-the-scenes look at the largest and most ambitious art exhibition in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution. ...

The Ladies' (2003)

Filmed in a women's restroom in a park in Tehran, this film offers insights into the lives of women in Iran. The ladies' room enables the women to unveil themselves, both physically and psychologically. In a series of frank and intimate conversations, thes ...

Infidels (2003)

Infidels (Koffar) is a film about the Godars—artist-Gypsies living in Northern Iran. The film recounts the four ways which the Godars make their living: dancing, acting, hunting and music, and showcases their dedication to preserve their art and age-old ...

Summit of the Wave (2003)

Part 3 of documentary trilogy about Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad. This part focuses on her theatre and film work. ...

Tabaki (2002)

Bahman Kiarostami's charming documentary about mourners-for-hire who are called upon to attend funerals in Iran. With an understated, lighthearted style, Tabaki provides a fascinating view of a peculiar occupation within this religious culture, offering, i ...

The Birth of Light (1997)

One shot, taken using a time-lapse technique, of a sunrise in an Iranian mountain landscape. A thin band of light shines across a starry sky, the sun comes up, the dawn light glows. ...

Taste of Cherry (1997)

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the j ...

Project (1997)

A thirty-nine minute sketch film for TASTE OF CHERRY that Abbas Kiarostani made with his son Bahman Kiarostami. ...

Sohanak (1997)

Leech (2021)

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