Shamsi Fazlollahi

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 also proves an occasion for extended family to reconnect, reminisce and rejoice in the pleasures of familiar company. The family compound of aged Uncle Ezzatolah proves an ideal site for this summer reunion among three generations, with its lush courtyard gardens, labyrinthine parlors and passageways and erratic electrical system (subject to untimely city blackouts).

A young guy who lives with his alcoholic mother is imprisoned. After getting released he begins to gamble but his mother is preventing him. He meets a woman in a cabaret and she seduces him to steal from a company's safe. But that is only the beginning of the troubles for him.

A singer from a small town is on his way to Tehran for work when his car breaks down.

A cousin and his female cousin love each other, but the girl's father marries his daughter to a man of his own choosing.

Faraz, a wealthy man has lost his wife . He is very careful about his five children and assigns a nurse to take care of them. Gogo, a nurse from southern suburbs needs a job and tries to convince Faraz that she is the best choice.

Building technologies that work in harmony with nature is a relatively new concern for modern humanity. Traditional and indigenous technologies, by contrast, were developed over centuries to coexist with nature rather than oppose it.