Abbas Ghazali

Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.

Iranian married couple who live separately and no one is aware of it, the wife is a lesbian and lives with her partner secretly. They can't announce this, Because the Iranian government is against homosexuals. They live in secret for a while so that they can emigrate from Iran.

Joseph ran away from Saddam's agents because he didn't want to fight in Iraq Iran war. Nobody has any news of him for 21 years. After the Allies invade Iraq, some news is heard about Joseph.

A woman embarks on an unyielding and possibly hopeless search for her missing husband, a journey that strains her already fragile relationship with her daughter. Along the way, she also faces the unwelcome advances of her persistent brother-in-law.

During the 30 years of the Baath ruling under Sadam in Iraq thousands of Iraqi Kurds and Shiites were either killed or disappeared. Around 182,000 people lost their lives when 4500 villages and townships were destroyed in Kirkuk, Soleimanieh, Dahouk and Erbil regions with the aim to exterminate the Kurds and to arabize Kurdistan. Having found one of the mass graves after 24 years in the southern deserts of Iraq, became the basis of a movie describing the living conditions of these villages inhabited by mostly mothers, daughters, wives or sisters of those victims.

Story of a pair of young couples who end up having problems with their marriages

The story is a few young people who are involved in a personal problem and gathered at the Astara border in a cottage by the water to get off the border with the help of a cannabis, but…

Rama, a zealous sensitive youth of 28, has blinded his girlfriend in a fight with scissors. He is going to be sentenced to lex talionis (blinding of one of his eyes) in the court tomorrow. The night before the hearing, his influential father bails him out for one night by paying a lot of money, so Rama can be with his family the last night. But Rama has other plans. He takes the opportunity and helped by a friend, he goes to the south of Iran as a camera operator with a filming group to exit the country illegally. He makes a mistake and takes money from the bank and the police trace him. Rama pays money to some smugglers and they send him to a deserted island to wait for a launch that will take him abroad. Fate has something different in store for Rama and he falls for a pregnant woman on the island.