It Was Just an Accident
Dir. Jafar Panahi
You can probably predict from the title that an accident starts this thriller but what happens after is totally unexpected.…
Terrestrial Verses
Dir. Ali Asgari & Alireza Khatami
Since we live in a society, interacting with authority is inescapable. Terrestrial Verses depict fairly mundane day-to-day interactions– getting a…
Hit the Road
Dir. Panah Panahi
A road trip movie with an unknown destination, Hit the Road plays with our expectations by avoiding any obvious questions…
Sun Children
Dir. Majid Majidi
Whether because of absent family or nefarious criminals, there are children around the world that have to work, sometimes in…
Law of Tehran
Dir. Saeed Roustaee
Also known as Just 6.5 or Six and a Half per Meters, this police procedural follows the hunt for a…
Baran
Dir. Majid Majidi
Baran is a romantic drama, though unlike the grand gestures and declarations of love that are common in the West,…
The Wind Will Carry Us
Dir. Abbas Kiarostami
The Wind Will Carry Us depicts a city engineer whose visit in a Kurdish town draws curiosity from the locals.…
Taxi
Dir. Jafar Panahi
What does a filmmaker do when you’re banned from making movies? For their safety, they might move abroad or switch…
Certified Copy
Dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Certified Copy starts straightforward enough as it follows an unnamed shopkeeper (Juliette Binoche) and a writer (William Shimell) taking a…
Through the Olive Trees
Dir. Abbas Kiarostami
We’ve heard of films within a film, but it’s crazy how many layers Through the Olive Trees operates in. Writer-director…
The Song of Sparrows
Dir. Majid Majidi
Life can easily get hectic in a moment. A hearing aid can get broken, debts can add up, a snafu…
Fifi Howls from Happiness
Dir. Mitra Farahani
This incredible documentary is about the elusive Iranian artist Bahman Mohassess, whose work has the uniqueness of a Picasso or…
This Is Not a Film
Dir. Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
Everything about This Is Not a Film revolves around state censorship. Documentarian Mojtaba Mirtahmasb records Iranian cinema giant Jafar Panahi’s…
Turtles Can Fly
Dir. Bahman Ghobadi
Regardless of where, when, and why war came to be, war inevitably makes children grow up faster than they ought…
My Favourite Cake
Dir. Behtash Sanaeeha & Maryam Moghaddam
Mahin lives alone in Tehran since her husband’s death and her daughter’s departure for Europe, until an afternoon tea with…
Beautiful City
Dir. Asghar Farhadi
Akbar, 18, has been held in a rehabilitation centre for committing murder at the age of sixteen. Now, Akbar is…
About Elly
Dir. Asghar Farhadi
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series…
Crimson Gold
Dir. Jafar Panahi
Pizza man Hussein is a daily witnesses to the unjust distribution of wealth in his native Iran. One day, he…