Baran Kosari

Moonshadow – The Myth of Fahimeh (2025)

This is the story of Fahimeh Akbari, a leading lady in the musical and cultural history of Iran, an exceptional talent whose magical voice and unique style enriched both the folklore and urban musical landscapes of Iran, a pioneer who breathed new life int ...

Popular (2023)

A middle-aged housewife that is about to enter her sixties decides to become independent after realising her husband has cheated on her in a humiliating fashion. ...

I Am Forough (2022)

Forough Farrokhzad, one of Iran's greatest modern poets, provoked uproar by daring to write of female sensuality in the face of society's traditional values. Her awakening found expression in poetry, theatre, and cinema, enabling art, as she saw it, to be ...

The Wastetown (2022)

Bemani has spent ten years in jail for killing her husband. Her child was taken away in prison and allegedly given to her husband's family. Temporarily released, she immediately starts looking for her son. Bemani goes to the car demolition workshop where E ...

48 Hours (2022)

After three years in prison, Nader is given a furlough to go home. He has 48 hours to become a father to his four-year-old daughter. ...

Won't You Cry? (2022)

A man loses the ability to cry after the death of his younger brother. As he deals with grief and the separation from his wife, he tries to reconcile his job at a football website with depression and a lack of meaning in life. ...

Odyssey of Solitude (2022)

Ahmad is a psychiatrist, believing in the treatment of the soul with the medicine in a positivistic and laboratorial way. But when his wife goes missing, he gets involved in his own delusions. Trying hard to find a trace of her, he goes to all of his frien ...

Majority (2021)

A remote village has not had a previous boom for years. Residents have either been forced to migrate or are in poverty and misery, but the village has a new guest. But the village has a new... ...

Punch Drunk (2021)

Mahtab lives in Tehran in 1996, along with her 10-year-old child, Erfan. She has got divorced from her husband, Morteza, who is in jail. Mahtab has enrolled her child in a karate class so that he does not end up like his father as far as his character is c ...

The Slaughterhouse (2020)

Amir, recently released from prison in France, finds himself back in Iran and in over his head when his father, a slaughterhouse worker, calls him to help him cover up a crime which has happened there. ...

The Last Fiction (2019)

Kingdom of Jamkard, ancient Persia. After defeating the armies of Ahriman, embodiment of evil, King Jamshid, bearer of the light of Divine Power, abandons his people blinded by pride, determined to conquer new lands. Thus, by chance, Zahhaak becomes regent ...

Repression (2019)

After a long time, three sisters come back to their paternal house. They face a caretaker along with their mother struggling with Alzheimer's. But there is no trace of the father who has disappeared in an early morning. A dead body is found, but none of th ...

Numbness (2019)

Jalal, a dropouts philosophy student, realizes that her sister Mary, who has a Bipolar disease, is married to a bourgeois man named Shahrokh who is addicted to football betting. He left the house angrily, and goes to his friend's house, Bahman, who is an u ...

Alive (2019)

Asma's previous suitor Yaser ruins her wedding Ceremony. Her brother Jamal accidentally kills Yaser's brother. Yaser's odd suggestion in order to forgive Jamal, endangers Asma's Marriage. ...

Cold Sweat (2018)

Iran's national women's futsal team makes the Asian Games final in Malaysia. But at the airport on departure day, the team captain finds her husband hasn't signed the document to permit her exit from the country. ...

Astigmatism (2018)

A man has returned after a few years of separation from his family and wants to take back his house from his wife, son, daughter-in-law, and grandson. His son, who farms leeches in the basement and hopes to get rich by doing that, tries to reconcile his fa ...

Anonymity (2018)

It is few days left to Amir's 40th birthday but an incident enters him into a big crisis which makes him to begin searching for a solution. ...

The Girl's House (2017)

Tomorrow is Samira's wedding ceremony and Bahar and Parisa are shopping excitedly. But at night somebody calls and tells them that the bride is dead and the wedding has been called off. They are both shocked and they cannot believe what they have heard, so ...

Chanel (2017)

The story narrates the story of the life of a nursing woman who lives with her child in special circumstances, and she experiences adventures due to events and mistakes. ...

Blockage (2017)

Qasem is a roadblock employee at the municipality, trying to improve his life while facing problems with his wife Narges. ...

The Red Trauma (2017)

This movie is a romance scene in the context of a city trip in Tehran, where the main character of the film is trying to maintain the balance between the four personality dimensions of a woman (Mistress, Mother, Amazon, and Madonna archetypes). Like the ve ...

Lantouri (2016)

Lantouri is the name of a gang that mugs people in broad daylight on the streets of Tehran and breaks into homes in the city's rich northern district. The gang also kidnaps children from families who have become wealthy through corruption and embezzlement ...

7 Months Pregnant (2016)

Revenge may have irreversible consequences. ...

Atoosa's Laughters (2016)

Twelve strangers embark on the Trans-Asia Express, a four-day train journey from Tehran to Istanbul. ...

The Nameless Alley (2016)

Two families who live in neighborhood in south of Tehran have different looks to life. These differences make some troubles for both. ...

Jameh Daran (2015)

The depressed Shirin wanders around at her father's funeral. Unexpectedly, she sees a man very much like her father. Regardless of her uncle's objection, Shirin is enchanted by the idea of finding out that man. Reluctantly, her uncle acknowledges that the ...

Night, Outdoor (2015)

Tuska decides that before her trip to Europe she wants to film Tehran from north to south with her camera. Her brother and friends are accompany her in this. But during that some troubles are happen to them. ...

Mastaneh (2015)

An Adopted Movie From Orginal Title 'Lipstick" ...

Acclimatizing (2014)

A theatre directed by Afsaneh Mahian. ...

Drought and Lies (2014)

Directed by Mohammad Yaghoubi. ...

I'm Not Angry! (2014)

I'm not Angry! is the story of Navid, a starred and expelled university student who - while trying to provide the least requirements of a normal life -, tries not to get angry when he is faced with the immoralities prevalent in the society, and does all he ...

Tales (2014)

Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class society. ...

Laboratory (2012)

It is about a boy named Ghahraman who changes his life when he starts working in a laboratory ...

Hatred (2012)

A young woman fleeing Iran via Turkey will do whatever it takes to reach the West. One evening she meets a young Turkish-Iranian man outside a club in Istanbul and offers to get him into the club for free. A a relationship develops between them and she con ...

I'm a Mother (2012)

The film is about the lives of two affluent families that are collapsing. ...

A Cube of Sugar (2011)

Throughout the two days preceding her long-awaited wedding, amid the flurry of arriving relatives and the preparation of a seemingly endless array of colorful, culinary delights, young bride-to-be Pasandide finds herself the center of attention. The event ...

Tea Man (2011)

This film is about the interest of a person named Ahmed in cinema. Ahmed has been very interested in cinema since his childhood. He started working in cinema as a teenager because of his interest. Ahmed is currently a famous tea man in Iranian cinema. ...

Fairy Tale (2011)

Mainline (2011)

The uneasy relationship between a mother and daughter is made all the more turbulent by drug abuse in this downbeat drama from Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab ...

Absolutely Tame Is a Horse (2011)

A corrupted police officer insists on bribing a broke man, so he has to go to everybody and do everything in order to be able to pay him in the very night. ...

Please Don't Disturb (2010)

A trio of humorous stories set around Tehran. ...

Nothing (2010)

A man, who has some kind of a disease and eats a lot, enters a poor and large family to marry their mother. ...

Heiran (2010)

During the rule of Taliban in Afghanistan, about 3 million illegal Afghani immigrants entered Iran and caused numerous problems for the Iranian society to accept them. This film depicts the story of a 17 year old rural girl by the name of Mahi (Fish), who ...

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 -- ...

The Postman Doesn't Knock Three Times (2009)

A man takes another man's girl as a hostage and goes to a deserted house outside of Tehran. But there another destiny is waiting him. ...

My Child (2009)

harming drama set in a rural area of post-war Iran. This heartwarming story follows a thoughtful young woman who serves as a leader to the community and a seemingly naive young man who is smitten with a local girl. The film observes their customs and tradi ...

Tambourine (2008)

Mohammad is sent to an apartment situated in uptown Tehran to install their satellite dishes, while having satellite TV is illegal in Iran. He arrives there with a girl named Shirin who seems to be his girlfriend and is in need of some money to repair her ...

Tofigh-e Ejbari (2007)

Tofigh-e Ejbari is a day-in-the-life of a superstar, Reza, and all the pluses and minuses that such degree of fame brings with it in terms of dealing with friends, family, fans and general public. ...

The Third Day (2007)

During the Iran-Iraq War, a disabled young woman is taken captive by Iraqi Baathist forces in Khuzestan Province. Her brother, along with his fellow combatants, tries to free his sister from the clutches of the enemy. ...

Crossroads (2006)

As the days of several different people unfold, their separate lives are about to become linked by a tragic car crash which kills two women. Affected by their involvement in the accident in different ways, neither Amir or Mr Naseri will ever be the same ag ...

The Magic Generation (2006)

Babak is more than just an unemployed engineer living with his parents in his 20s. He possesses a supernatural sense of hearing, so strong he can hear through solid walls and over great distances. But Babak is not the only one with bizarre, unexplained pow ...

Under the Skin of the City (2005)

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 ...

Gilaneh (2005)

A mother's courage, hardship, and love, in times of war. In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, Gilane escorts her pregnant daughter, Maygol, from the relative calm of their village, Espili, into war-torn Tehran to search for Maygol's husband, Rahman. The jour ...

Girl's Dormitory (2004)

A young beautiful lady leaves the overprotective and familiar environment of her hometown and moves to the city to set off her college studies. There, she will have to face a new life alone, with all the experiences and dangers that this may imply. ...

The Winning Card (2004)

The manager of a successful travel agency, Arman, has just got away with committing huge financial fraud. Now he intends to flee the country before the authorities can catch up to him. ...

Dancing in the Dust (2004)

When forced to divorce his wife by family and social pressure because her mother is a prostitute, Nazar works double shifts to pay back the loan he took out for his impulsive wedding and to pay some ongoing restitution to his sweet jilted bride, Reyhaneh. ...

Our Times (2002)

Documentary by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, an Iranian female director. This film portrays two aspects of the Iranian presidential election of 2001. ...

Tales of an Island (2000)

An anthology directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Testing Democracy) and Dariush Mehrjui (Dear Cousin is Lost) ...

The May Lady (1998)

Forough Kia is a film-maker who got divorced from her husband many years ago and now is living with her son Maani. She decides to make a documentary about perfect mothers. In order to do so she meets many mothers to chose the perfect mother among them. She ...

Baran and the Native (1998)

Aboard the top deck of a cruise ship, Baran, a young wealthy girl, notices a native boy who is dancing joyfully to beating drums. Baran arrives at a plush hotel on the mainland, however she seems somewhat disconsolate. Later she finds the native boy again ...

The Blue-Veiled (1995)

An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to abando ...

Nargess (1992)

A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law. ...