Neda Mohseni

Set against the backdrop of Iran's strict and oppressive legal system, this anthology film tells the stories of four men who each face a moral crisis when having to deal with death penalties.

Through five portraits of relatives and mentors, five expressions of resistance, Pegah Ahangarani sketches her life story. Drawing from personal archives, home videos, street protests footage, newspapers, and recorded voices, she retraces more than 40 years of Iran’s history. From the early days of 1979, until the war that began in 2026, she pieces together intimate and collective memories, forming the portrait of a country shaped by political repression and in constant hope for a revolution.

A disturbed girl has a horrible nightmare in which two muddy figures ask her to open a mysterious box. To get rid of that, she decides to kill herself in her nightmare just to wake up.

A search for a house leads to a chance encounter between a lonely young man and a lively young dance teacher, changing the course of both their lives.

A snake catcher working for the Iranian antivenom department dies on the job. Once he miraculously returns to the living, the resurrected man refuses to go back to his old life.

Few hours after their first meeting at a party, a girl and a boy are lying next to each other.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The parents of two students are summoned to the school due to the loss of the camera of one of them.

A young couple who has been in a long-distance relationship for several years, meet again a few months after their breakup.

A married woman betrays her husband with a man who suffers sexual dysfunction. The two meet near a stark seaside location for a brief but telling exchange that will alter both their lives forever.

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A woman who finds out about her son's mysterious relationship with his piano teacher, goes to the school to warn her, but in meeting her, she discovers a much bigger secret.

Pariya tries to express herself to her mother and sister through a second language.

After leaving a party, three friends are making their way home while chatting and having fun. Suddenly, things start to get unpleasant.

On a scorching summer day, an old rusty fan is betrayed by its owner, sparking a tale of jealousy and revenge that demands justice for an unforgivable crime.

"A patient struggles to express his inner turmoil during recurring conversations with his psychiatrist, trying desperately to be heard."

The dream of an old man to go to the sea depends on Mr. K's opinion.

Yahya is a middle-aged man who lives in a small town, a place where he can hide and forget his past, connected to the repression in Iran. One day, his son Nima leaves the house and disappears. Gradually, he distanced himself from Marta, his lover, and sought refuge alone. So, the police department calls and informs that a body that cannot be identified has been found, and Yahya is convinced that his son ran away because he found out his secret. To find him, Yahya will have to face his memories.

Younes’s father is arrested when the sugar factory boss accuses him of setting fire to the fields. When 11-year-old Younes, preparing himself for a football trial, finds out that at the night of the accident, his father, as a leading figure in the strikes and the protests, was busy at a meeting with the other workers, talking about their demands, he tries to bring the witnesses to the court. It is the starting point of his journey: a journey of forgetting his love for football and taking the pressure off his family….