Maryam Boubani

The Witness (2025)

In Iran, the retired dance teacher Tarlan witnesses her friend Rana's murder by her husband, who is an important government figure. When the police refuse to investigate, Tarlan must decide whether to bow to political pressure or risk her reputation and li ...

My Beautiful Doll (2024)

On her wedding night, Rojan, a 14-year-old Kurdish girl who is forced to marry with an old man takes a dangerous decision to set herself free. ...

Son (2024)

In a small village outside Sanandaj, 60-year-old Maryam is waiting for her son Farhad's return from military service. One day, Farhad turns up at her door, wearing a chador, and tells her that he is now living as a woman. ...

Wind of Change (2023)

When Sara wakes up in the morning, she finds out that her husband is missing. She and her teenage daughter are left without anyone to rely on. Along with one of the neighbors, they begin desperately seeking him. In a journey from the heart of darkness into ...

Nietzschean suicide (2023)

A suicide pharmacy owner tries to delay the suicide of the only midwife in his city until after his pregnant wife gives birth. Out of his efforts comes a novel suicide method that can revive his customers' will to live. ...

Sampo (2023)

Struggling to make ends meet, a single mother caters the funerals and weddings of the rich. But her daughter has different ideas about her mother's job. ...

Sisters Apart (2021)

Rojda, a native of Iraqi Kurdistan and a soldier in the German army, travels to a refugee camp in Greece where she manages to meet her mother, who has bad news about her sister Dilan. ...

The Dance of Ali and Zîn (2021)

The story is set in a tiny Kurdish village. Isa's younger brother is murdered and brought back to his hometown. Two weeks after the funeral, his mother Zîn dreams of giving a wedding celebration for her deceased son. This strange idea sparks off a host of ...

Congenital (2021)

Roja is a teenage village girl who is forced to marry a religious old man for blood money. On their wedding night, the husband demands to have sex with Roja against her will. Running against time, and with the help of a close friend, she embarks on a despe ...

Hotel New Moon (2020)

Noushin is a single mother who lives by her girl alone and has a peaceful life but when a foreign guy enters their life everything changes for them and new secrets reveal. ...

Son-Mother (2020)

A widow who works tirelessly at a failing factory in sanctions-gripped Iran receives a marriage proposal that could mean financial security — but could also tear her family apart. ...

Seasonless (2020)

In a bloody war with ISIS, the burnt body of an American soldier was accidentally presented to a long-awaited Kurdish mother, while the soldier's real mother steadfastly waits at San Diego's navy base for a son who will never return. ...

My Second Year in College (2019)

Mahtab and Ava are classmates in their second year of college studying engineering. The story begin when they and other classmates go on a trip to Esfahan. ...

Kejal (2018)

Kejal, a young Kurdish woman studying in Tehran returns home when her brother is killed in the mountains, leaving behind debts for lost goods. Forced by circumstance, Kejal becomes a Kulbar (Carrying goods on her back, Every mistaken step may chance upon a ...

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 ...

Mothering (2018)

Nava tries to convince her sister to get back with her husband, while her own fiance is cheating on her. ...

Walking on String (2017)

The story of life of a musician who plays traditional music and comes to Tehran for a living but after a while he is absorb and begins to play in a rock band. ...

Under the Smokey Roof (2017)

Shirin is a woman facing problems in her marriage and with her child. She's trying desperately for a way to connect with her son and her husband. ...

Reseba: The Dark Wind (2016)

Radical Islamist militants attack a village in Iraq where a young Yazidi love couple prepares for marriage. From that moment onwards their lives are turned into a nightmare. ...

Arghavan (2015)

Black Horse Memories (2015)

A group of young people are trying to teach Kurdish in Turkish Kurdistan, a land where the teaching of the language is forbidden by Turkish authorities. Part of their work is to print clandestine schoolbooks in underground schools and distribute them. One ...

Facing Mirrors (2012)

Rana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transsexual man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same journey a ...

Whisper with the Wind (2009)

An elderly radio-operator travels across Kurdistan in the war-torn 80s assuring communication between lost families. ...

The Familiar Soil (2008)

An artist's life who lives in a village of Kurdistan,Iran has been changed because his nephew enters to the village. ...

Mahya (2008)

Javid is a medical student who's afraid of the dead bodies. In a funeral he meets Mahya, who is a nurse in the hospital he works. This meeting changes his life. ...

The Memories of a 75-Year-Old Man (2007)

A documentary from the point of view of an 75 years old man about the history of Melli bank of Iran and it's first days. ...

Have You Another Apple? (2006)

In an unspecified dystopia, a tyrant rules with an iron fist. To maintain control over the people, he employs 'Dasdaran', dangerous, scythe-wielding warriors who obey his orders without question or qualm. But at last the day has come where a hero will rise ...

Gradually... (2006)

A welder discovers his wife has disappeared. He sets out to look for her. ...

The Forbidden Chapter (2006)

A drug addicted, middle-aged detective, beaten down by life and bureaucracy, investigates a series of murders of prostitutes in the slums of Mashhad. ...

A Piece of Bread (2005)

A group of youngsters participate in a race match and endure the difficult route of this race just to be hired in the Environmental Protection agency of Tehran. ...

A Place to Live (2004)

Six young men—Pouya, Reza, Abbas, Hossein, Saeed, and Mojtaba—live together in a Tehran dormitory during the last days of the year. The film observes their daily routines, small struggles, and shared hopes. ...

The Wind Carpet (2003)

Japan and Iran are not in close relationship. More than 4 centuries ago, however, Persian carpets were used in the festival of Takayama, a historic city in mountainous area of Honsyu. A man planned to resume the carpet in the festival, and asked Kinue, a P ...

Women's Prison (2002)

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 ab ...

A House Built on Water (2002)

Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, thinks he r ...

To Be or Not to Be (1998)

A girl has heart disease and looks for a heart transplant. ...

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 ... ...