Stony Hands

For forty years, Esfandiar has been unconcernedly preparing corpses for the journey to their final resting place. One day, whilst preparing a burial service, he's taken ill. Might he too be mortal?

Following protests to the presidential election in 2009, an elderly woman has one night to clear her house of any politically troublesome belongings of her family. To help her out; her deceased husband, her executed brother and two martyred and immigrated sons are back to life in their picture frames.

Forty-eight-year-old Sohrab, head of the workers of the Isfahan Foundry, has just had his fourth daughter.

Synopsis: There are love stories between several humans and non-humans who are constantly in danger. During these situations, he has a critical stance on the state of society. Qif is an abbreviation of Reza Attaran's character name. Anyone who came to earth from a planet called Hyrkani, fell in love and sat at the wedding table, this extraterrestrial being is caught by the enemies of his tribe, the Hyrkani, and is about to become...

After the critical success of his first film at Cannes, Amiryousefi returned to Iran to find it banned by state authorities. It's a pattern that continued through his entire career, which the seasoned director looks back on in this imaginative, satirical portrait.