Wishes of the Land

Years ago, young men enlisted in the army to defend the "Democratic Sect of Azerbaijan," but the sect's rule lasted only one year. Soon after, the cult's most influential soldiers and cadres were arrested and deported to Siberia. Now, after sixty years, each of them resides in one of the liberated territories of the Soviet Union, longing to revisit their homeland.

Settled comfortably in Sweden with his wife and two children, Siavash finds himself at middle age consumed with guilt for having abandoned his parents when he left Iran many years before. A hasty attempt to return finds Siavash stranded in the free port of Qeshm, a sort of island no-man's-land and departure point for smugglers, where the locals are as puzzled by this backwards-fleeing refugee as he is by their unfamiliar customs.

Based on a true story about Taliban in Afghanistan and how they tried to destroy their National film archive and closing the movie houses.

Sohrab returns to Iran after years abroad. Despite all the psychological pressures of his homecoming, he stays in a house in which he finds a young girl living in the shadows. After the death of her father and a failed romance, the girl (Arghavan) now lives with her mother. She has contracted a disease, which can only be cured by darkness and silence. When Sohrab sees her, she tries to bring her back to life. He sets out to film the daily lives of people but only in activities that inspire hope. It proves to be a difficult mission. Each filmed person faces the camera and asks her to come into the light, but Arghavan remains mired in her pain. She asks Sohrab to go film her hometown in western Iran where she last saw her father. There, he confides in her, facing the camera as he makes a confession.

In 1988, 184,000 Iraqi Kurds were abducted from their towns and villages by the Iraqi government as part of a genocidal campaign. After the liberation of Kurdistan in 1991, Hana is assigned by the United Nations to investigate the fate of the missing. She encounters vast numbers of unclaimed identity cards and personal documents, and among them discovers the tragic truth of her own fate.

He has a beautiful house and Farang. He has a dream and the reality and love that sustains the house.