Reza Naji

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.

On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.

A sudden, life-altering tragedy shatters young Ruhollah's world, thrusting him into a harsh new reality where he must confront not only the profound grief of losing his father but also the daunting responsibility of providing for his struggling mother. Forced to mature far beyond his years, Ruhollah finds himself precariously balancing the demands of his education with the crushing weight of adult responsibilities.

Two young people who love each other but cannot be reunited - Tuncay and Aytekin - have an endless love for each other. The reason for their separation is that Aytekin is the daughter of a king, and Tuncay is a simple engraver. Another issue is that Tuncay takes a shaman as his apprentice. As a result of a miracle, Tuncay arrives a thousand years later - in modern Baku and manages to find both the girl he loves and her father. But what has changed in Baku during these thousand years? Will our hero be able to reunite with the woman he loves in conditions that are completely alien to him, in the vortex of time?

Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?

A young man, with unknown troubles and philosophy of life, hits the streets of Tehran to clear his mind. Soon he finds himself in the role of a taxi driver. As he drives through the city, each person he picks up brings his story, stories that he tries to make sense of in order to understand and make sense of his own life.

When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.

Sohrab and Bijan are two penniless friends who live in an old, abandoned cinema. One morning they decide to seek out Qader, a man who owes them a lot of money...