Babak Karimi

A Separation

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

The Island

A coming of age story of boy Turi and his younger sister Teresa on an island off the coast of Sicily.

The Salesman

Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.

The Past

After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie. As he attempts to improve matters between mother and daughter Ahmad unwittingly lifts the lid on a long buried secret...

No Choice

A young homeless girl supports herself as a surrogate mother for money. A human rights attorney tries to help her change her life, but ithe challenges seem insurmountable. This is a rarely seen side of Iranian society.

The Life Ahead

In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.

Quiet Chaos

Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.

Zeros and Ones

Called to Rome to stop an imminent terrorist bombing, a soldier desperately seeks news of his imprisoned brother — a rebel with knowledge that could thwart the attack. Navigating the capital's darkened streets, he races to a series of ominous encounters to keep the Vatican from being blown to bits.

A Separation

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

The Island

A coming of age story of boy Turi and his younger sister Teresa on an island off the coast of Sicily.

The Salesman

Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.

The Past

After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie. As he attempts to improve matters between mother and daughter Ahmad unwittingly lifts the lid on a long buried secret...

No Choice

A young homeless girl supports herself as a surrogate mother for money. A human rights attorney tries to help her change her life, but ithe challenges seem insurmountable. This is a rarely seen side of Iranian society.

The Life Ahead

In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.

Quiet Chaos

Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.

Zeros and Ones

Called to Rome to stop an imminent terrorist bombing, a soldier desperately seeks news of his imprisoned brother — a rebel with knowledge that could thwart the attack. Navigating the capital's darkened streets, he races to a series of ominous encounters to keep the Vatican from being blown to bits.

Timo's Winter

Timo, the youngest of a Greek community of Funfair workers, will have to face the hardest winter together with his loved ones.

Tickets

A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband who's accompanied by a community-service volunteer who's assisting her. Interactions among these Europeans turn on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and opportunities for kindness.

Death of the Fish

An old woman's death brings her children together so maybe family's wounds will be healed during this unwanted confrontation.

The Loser Man

Ahmad is a detective who is suspicious of the network behind a recently committed crime. When the investigation advances further, he finds out that he might be in danger too.

The Girl's House

Tomorrow is Samira's wedding ceremony and Bahar and Parisa are shopping excitedly. But at night somebody calls and tells them that the bride is dead and the wedding has been called off. They are both shocked and they cannot believe what they have heard, so they go straight to their friend's fiancé, Mansoor, to find out about the cause of her suspicious death.

The Role

A woman accompanies her husband for an audition. The thing that happens there leads her for an important decision...

Invasion

Someone’s been murdered and the police is investigating in a stadium, the crime spot. They have arrested the murder suspect and they just try to find out the murdering procedure, however, it is quite complicated and the friends of the murdered person are not to be very collaborative.

Fish & Cat

A group of students travel to a remote region to participate in a kite-flying event. Next to their camp by the lakeside, they find a restaurant with cooks that treat the students with suspicion. Bizarre events lead to a complicated situation, from which the students cannot escape.

Marquise

Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a tragic one.

The Wastetown

Bemani has spent ten years in jail for killing her husband. Her child was taken away in prison and allegedly given to her husband’s family. Temporarily released, she immediately starts looking for her son. Bemani goes to the car demolition workshop where Ebi, her brother-in-law, works, but he claims not to know anything about the boy’s fate. She finds out, however, that it was Ebi who sold the child to a rich family. Bemani tries to extract more information from the workers of the demolition shop, but they demand an indecent favour in return for the information. As a desperate mother, she is prepared to go to the extremes, but not in the way the men are hoping for.

Gaze

On her way back from work, a woman witnesses something happening in the bus. She must decide if she will reveal it or not.

Sunshine Express

Participants assigned a specific character in a role-playing game undertake a fictional train journey to an island, in order to win a cash prize, only for the competition to become a microcosm of the limitations they experience in their real lives.

Fossil

Set in 70's Pre-Revolution Iran, a Musical Artist Struggles to Make a Name for Himself.

Careless Crime

During the uprising to overthrow the Shah's regime in Iran, protestors set fire to movie theatres to protest Western culture. Forty years later, four people decide to re-create the past by burning down a theatre.

Ex

Six people struggling with their relationship, or lack thereof, cross paths with their respective exes — and discover they might still harbor feelings for each other.

Delay

A man and his two children are late for their flight. While they wait for the next flight something happens that changes his point of view about being a father.

Now (Aknoon)...

About the program: A conversation-oriented and different program that takes you to a journey deep into human experiences and the world of books, movies, music, etc. By inviting distinguished guests from the world of art, literature, philosophy, poetry, science, sports, etc., this program deals with the influential moments of life. Here in the present life is a little bit of yesterday, a little bit of tomorrow and a lot of today...

Once Upon a Time in Iran

It is the story of a family on the first of September 1941, which undergoes changes during the occupation of Iran by the Allies.

Savushun

Let's travel to Iran in the final years of World War II. To a story of history, tragedy, love... to mourning Siavash... to Savushun.

The Lion Skin

Naeem, who has endured 15 years in prison for his daughter's love, faces a major crisis after his release to see her.

Azaazil

On the night of his wife's birthday, Dr. Shoka Mehrjui encounters mysterious events, including the disappearance of one of their neighbors. A major named Behrouz Sharifi notices the connection between this story and the disappearance of other people and comes up with clues that gradually lead the case to a complicated and unusual path.

I Want To Be Alive

Homa Haghi and her love are preparing with the Haghi family to surprise Homayoun, the father of her family on his birthday night. But when the father arrives, the whole family is surprised.

Set Me Free

An invitation letter from the famous singer Daniel reaches Afshanah to meet him, Afshanah, who is eager to meet Daniel, shows up for a romantic date, but..

The Vertical Line

Heartfelt Italian comedy-drama about the patients and staff of a hospital oncology ward.