Sonia Sanjari

During the 2022 protests in Tehran, piano teacher Rana’s teenage sister, Arezou, disappears. With her ex-partner and close friends, Rana searches for her through a long and desperate night, an experience shared by many Iranian families during the Women, Life, Freedom uprising. As the night goes on, they begin to see Arezou in strange, fleeting moments, making it harder to separate what is real from what they fear or remember. When Rana’s conservative sister arrives, tensions inside the family grow, caused by the very different ways the two women have learned to live in Iran.

While at the zoo, Ranaa’s mother reveals that her father has left them. As they stroll past empty animal cages, Ranaa reflects on the significance of absence and the importance of cherishing what they have.

In order to make a quick buck, Majid must make his wife fake a car accident injury – but is she already the victim?

Twelve stories, one per month, from April to March. They all take place in the same place—inside vehicles—and during the “magic hour.” The characters also experience similar situations: they are hesitating to make an important decision in their lives, a moment that will mark them forever.

On a spring day, a young couple drifts apart and back together: Nima, lost in office routines and an evening celebration, and Tara, roaming markets in search of both a dress and a place to bury her secrets. Meanwhile, Aban, a young woman swept up in the tremors of first love, embarks on a journey of her own. Their paths, at once ordinary and fateful, begin to circle and echo one another in ways that move beyond the limits of time and space.

Young mother Maryam is getting ready one morning, trying to balance preparing her child for the day while her husband begins an exercise session. But then her husband calls out from the other room, trapped underneath a heavy weight he was lifting. His life in the balance, Maryam initially makes a few attempts to help, but the weights are too heavy and stuck. She watches as he dies before her eyes giving her a moral dilemma, and a chance to remake her life.

A director in a dead-end marriage holds auditions for her debut film. The actress she casts for the lead faces opposition from her father, sparking turmoil.

After his owner dies, a dog wander alone in Tehran, following people and their stories.

According to his doctors, Leila's father has only a few days left to live. His only concern is for his daughter's welfare as he knows how difficult life can be for a divorcee in Tehran. Leila decides to plan a scenario for his dad so that he can die peacefully.

The director, the sound engineer and the driver go together in the middle of the night to record one minute of the silence of the night in the city.

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.

Despite of many disagreements between Yalda and her husband, she tries to maintain their relationship because of her fears. But their differences are increasing and they aren't compatible anymore and this causes their divorce. Because of family pressures and society judgments, Yalda keeps herself aloof from her relatives and hides her divorce. Home is no longer safe and her family don't appreciate the pressure she is under. She extends her relationship with Hamed one of her classmates. As usual, marriage is her relationship purpose. But Hamed has another idea. Their interactions change both of them. Now Yalda is another person with another personality.

Farhad's younger brother gets killed right in front of his eyes. Now Farhad along with his brother, the 'dead man', steps to the woods of spirits for revenge. This journey though, is to the past and the future.

An elderly man working at a guest house with his friends. His daughter will comes to visit him after about 25 years of living in Germany. The old man and his friends are planning to this meeting...

A fantasy, road- movie regarding Man and Maryam that embark on an adventure road trip to find their missing along with three others remnant from the circus group.

Everything is ready on the set, but the filming is not going well. The actress is nervous; she thinks everyone expects her to be someone else. The man is haunted by the absence of his wife; he doesn't know how to handle this situation.

A single English teacher lives in a rented home. On the day that the landlord plans to come home to renew, the girl asks one of her son's students to stay home after class because she is distrustful of the landlord.

A woman travels to Tehran from a small town for a life-altering exchange, still unsure of her decision…

Farid Matin is a girl near a camera. He steps down the stairs and then swings to the right and leaves the frame.

A short film from Iranian director Karim Lakzadeh.