Fatemeh Motamed-Arya

Once Upon a Time Abadan (2024)

Takes place in the early 2000s, during a period when the country's political situation is heavily influenced by the US military attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq. Despite the years that have passed since the end of the war, the shadow of fear and terror has ...

Once Upon a Time in Abadan (2024)

The story of Rozi Roozari Abadan movie takes place in the early 80s of Iran, when the political situation of the country was heavily affected by the American military attack on Afghanistan and Iraq, and even though years have passed since the end of the wa ...

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. ...

No Choice (2020)

A young homeless girl supports herself as a surrogate mother for money. A human rights attorney tries to help her change her life, but ithe challenges seem insurmountable. This is a rarely seen side of Iranian society. ...

In Silence (2019)

Sudabeh returns to Iran after years to escape the punishment of conscience, but he needs to tell a secret that it is difficult to tell a secret ... ...

African Violet (2019)

When Fereydoun's children put him in a nursing home, his ex-wife Shokoo takes him to her house although her new husband does not quite approve. ...

Ballad of Bahram (2018)

A documentary about Bahram Beyzai (Persian: بهرام بیضایی; born 26 December 1938). He is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and ostād ("master") of Persian letters, arts, and Iranian studies. ...

Tale of the Sea (2018)

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 re ...

Fairy Out of Wedluck (2017)

Parinaaz's mother dies in an accident. The only relative to take care of Parinaaz is an aunt who despises her. Their relationship is to be challenged through different unnatural events. ...

Aba Jan (2017)

Stories of families who live in the Zanjan city in the 1980s. Family atmosphere of those years of war and its impact on their lives A family tradition in the 1980s they live in the city. Families who affected by the war between Iran and Iraq. ...

Avalanche (2015)

Homa, the most accomplished nurse in the hospital is asked to care for the elderly mother of the owner of the hospital. The next ten days sees continuous snow fall, trapping both women but opening a host of unknown doors. ...

Yahya Sokoot Nakard (2015)

Young Yahya's father is going far looking for a job,therefore Yahya should stay with her infamous aunt.... ...

Nabat (2014)

The story is set during an upsurge in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and revolves around an old, sick ex-forestry worker and his wife Nabat, whose son has died in battle. ...

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. ...

Here Without Me (2011)

The story is about the world of a small family with familiar dreams and not so remarkable problems. The mother is trying to lead everything to save her family, but small events disarrange all her plans. ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

Niloofar (2008)

Niloofar is a twelve-year-old girl whose dream is to read and write, but she lives in a village where education is only for boys. Her mother, a well-known midwife, insists that Niloofar become her apprentice. While assisting her mother during a delivery, N ...

Winter Dreams (2008)

Three sisters find themselves trying to cope in the wake of their parents' death. One of the sisters, a young factory worker, finds herself faced with the prospect of marriage when a ... ...

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 ...

Mercy (2006)

A fairy grants wishes in Tehran through a remote control. ...

Under the Peach Tree (2006)

Men at Work (2006)

A political allegory on four middle-class guys who pile into their car for a ski weekend. A brief stop at a picturesque vista leads to their chance discovery of a prominent rock formation it seems would be oh so easy to tip over, but... ...

A Little Kiss (2005)

Two old writers who one of them is returned to Iran after 38 years because of his son's suicide, are going on a trip to the grave of that son. ...

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 ...

Abadan (2004)

An old Iranian man disappears while searching for a friend who's been dead ten years, so his agitated daughter enlists her estranged husband to look for him; the husband puts his foot down at first but soon finds himself cruising the streets of Tehran with ...

Redhat and Sarvenaz (2002)

This entertaining real action, puppets movie narrates the adventures of a stouthearted boy who is kidnapped by two bandits. During the abduction, he will help a girl, he meets, who has been held prisoner in her room for her entire life. After failing a cou ...

Azizam, Man Kook Nistam (2002)

Hamid Afshari, the secretary at the courthouse (Parviz Parastui), is running out of money to buy a computer for his son. Desperate, he plans to kidnap Farzan, the son of Mr. Zare, a rich party that had a trial in court. For this, he takes for accomplice As ...

The Pastry Girl (2002)

The film is all about marriage. A boy and a girl from two families want to get married, but for twenty years because of the differences between their parents either their engagement, or their wedding has been put of. The disagreements get more serious and ...

Look at Me (2002)

At the age of 9, due to the poverty of the family, Aitkin is sold to a person who has two wives and several children and marries him, she runs away from home due to the beating of her husband. ...

Once Upon a Time (2001)

In 'Once upon a time,' ('Yeki Bood Yeki Nabood', 2000), a magical letter transports two men, Fahrad and Iraj, to a small house in the middle of the countryside - and into a world that's filled with cute talking animals.The men are happy to go along with it ...

The Prank (1999)

An adaptation of Hero (1992), The Prank (Persian: Shoukhi) tells the story of Reza Fathali (Parviz Parastui), a petty criminal who saves the passengers of a crashed airplane; however, his friend, Ebrahim Nazabadi (Habib Rezaei) takes credit for his heroism ...

The Spouse (1999)

The personal life of a couple is challenged when the wife gets a promotion over her husband and becomes his boss. ...

The Changed Man (1998)

Khosro Paziresh, poor inventor of a magical washing powder went to see the CEO to manufacture his invention But accidentally fell into the elevator shaft. ...

A Mother's Love (1998)

In this Iranian film, social worker Mina (Fateme Motamed-Aria) tells the reformatory head they should offer genuine emotional feedback to their charges, but she withdraws when the reality of such idealistic proposals becomes evident. Young Medhi (Hussein S ...

Love + 2 (1998)

Four years after breaking up, Mahmood meets Yasaman on the day of her father's funeral, just after the latter has returned back from abroad. Mahmood has met Mina a year after his and ... ...

Safar (1996)

An exploration of the psychological effects of war on a middle-class Iranian family who flee Teheran following a night air raid. ...

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 ...

The Singer Cat (1995)

Hasani who is an orphan is living with his little sister Goldouneh in an orphanage. One day a couple come there to adopt a child. They chose Goldouneh but Hasani who believes that their father is somewhere waiting for them is refusing... ...

Redhat and Cousin (1994)

Kolah Ghermezi is a naughty school boy. His playfulness gets him expelled from school and he fails to find a job. He sees a program on TV which attracts his attention and he goes to Tehran. With the help of Pesarkhaleh, he goes to the TV program he had see ...

The Actor (1993)

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 him to abandon his dream of being an artistic actor. He also has to deal with his family problems and his w ...

Once for Ever (1993)

A man, who is planning to emigrate from the country, has reached agreement with his wife to be separated from her. The woman is a war refugee and decides to return to her home town in the south of Khuzistan province. On the day of separation the woman real ...

Once Upon a Time, Cinema (1992)

The film follows a character known as The Cinematographer, who is looking for someone called Atieh (Future). As he calls out to her, he is magically transported back in time from the early twentieth century to the reign of Naser al-Din Shah in 19th century ...

Travelers (1992)

A young woman's wedding becomes a ritual of mourning when her sister and family die in an auto accident on the way to the wedding. The sisters' mother refuses to accept her daughter's death, and in the midst of wedding guests and mourners, including the dr ...

Reyhaneh (1990)

Reyhaneh leaves her husband and come to live by her father's house but her brother who has financial problems wants her out. He wants to force her into another marriage but she leaves for her sister's house. But the troubles are waiting for her there too. ...

Memory and Visit (1988)

A poor old mute's only interest in life is his fighting cock, and when it's stolen he's devastated. The film was banned by the Iranian government. ...

City of Mice (1986)

Mice who have to leave their school and immigrate because of a wild cat who wants to eat them up. Eventually the mice defeat the cat and go back to their home. ...