Ali Zhekan

Ardalan is an ordinary man with an ordinary job and ordinary salary but his wife, Pooneh couldn`t stand it and wants more and more from him. This greediness of Pooneh makes their life face to some problems

In a remote seaside village, its residents' peaceful lives are upended when they spot a mysterious boat drifting toward the shore. Upon pulling it in, they find a weary and wounded stranger named Ayat, who only recalls being attacked and barely escaping with his life. As Ayat tries to rebuild his sense of self and uncover his past, he becomes a source of curiosity and suspicion in the community.

A captive warrior, Issa, who has long been thinking about various plans to escape from the camp, takes advantage of a golden opportunity and runs away from the camp immediately. A number of Ba'athist troops pursue him, but he continues steadfastly and boldly to flee while they are firing their bullets. But eventually, he manages to return to his homeland by plunging into the border river ...

A murder has occurred, and the police, in their search for the killer, are confronted with the visible and hidden aspects of the life of the victim - Engineer Mehran Shahrokhi. Secrets are revealed. Secrets that have so affected the ways of life today that sometimes it seems impossible to recognize the true face of a person. The police, using their skills and intelligence, discover the hidden faces behind each face one by one and try to get ahead of events, but...

Noted Iranian actress Susan Taslimi plays an impoverished single mother who agees to marry off her 13-year-old daughter to a middle-aged man in return for a mare, which will help her earn an income and provide for her younger children. Director Ali Zhekan paints a stark picture of poverty and patriarchy in rural Iran (the mother stores her rice in a container hidden in a tree; her brother, who brokered the wedding, mercilessly beats the recalcitrant child), but this 1986 film is distinguished mostly by Taslimi's increasingly fiery performance as the mother decides to defend her daughter's freedom.

Bita Hokmi, the daughter of a conservative and deeply religious family, gets accepted as a graphic design major and leaves Isfahan, her hometown for Tehran and moves in with a relative of hers, a divorced woman named Sima. Bita meets Farhad, an architecture student, in the university and although Sima warns her not to date Farhad, she does so anyway ...

A group of armed men, searching for an important case file, plan to abduct investigating magistrate Kaveh Sohrabi. However, they mistakenly enter the home of his neighbors, Behrouz and his wife Roya. Threatening the couple, the armed men force Behrouz to kidnap Kaveh Sohrabi, making Behrouz the prime suspect in the case.