So Close, So Far

Throughout the two days preceding her long-awaited wedding, amid the flurry of arriving relatives and the preparation of a seemingly endless array of colorful, culinary delights, young bride-to-be Pasandide finds herself the center of attention. The event also proves an occasion for extended family to reconnect, reminisce and rejoice in the pleasures of familiar company. The family compound of aged Uncle Ezzatolah proves an ideal site for this summer reunion among three generations, with its lush courtyard gardens, labyrinthine parlors and passageways and erratic electrical system (subject to untimely city blackouts).

On New Year's Eve, a young soldier is looking forward to going home but is given orders to escort a juvenile delinquent to a distant reformatory. He sets off with the child handcuffed to him.

A mother and wife is on the brink of an attack. Hengameh Tahareh Ghaziani lives with her husband, her son and daughter in a middle class neighborhood, and spends his days taking care of their needs.

Due to drought, Rasoul has left the village. He is glad to find a job as a night guardian at a complex under construction. In the deserted construction site, something wrong is going on. In the strange circumstances around him, Rasoul finds himself trapped…

When mom is terminally ill at the hospital, dad comes along after the long years of absence. Anxious and hesitant, he has got no way but taking his son and his daughter away. But to which destination when he has not managed to build the castle of dreams drawn by mom for the children?

A young girl leaves her hometown in south of Iran for a half day trip without permission of his strict father to attend a close friend's goodbye party. In her way back home hazy weather changes all she planned.

A Tehran taxi driver becomes the impromptu protector of a desperate young pregnant woman after he rushes her to hospital, in this delicate, deceptively small-scale drama from award-winning Iranian director Reza Mirkarimi.

Seyyed Hassan, a young seminary student, is preparing to don the clerical attire. But while his fellow students excitedly prepare for graduation, Seyyed finds his doubts and uncertainties start to bubble to the surface. When his formal clothes are stolen by a small boy before the ceremony, Seyyed heads out into town to find the culprit and reclaim his property. As he learns about the people in his community, their plights and their poverties, he inadvertently starts down the path he was always meant for - becoming the missionary who will help deliver these people from their everyday struggles and grant them the hope and salvation needed to reform their lives.

Persian Carpet is an omnibus film produced by Iran's National Carpet Center and Farabi Cinema Foundation where 15 renowned Iranian directors contributed films on the subject of Persian carpet. Carpets are the reflection of the cultural and historical identity of Iran.

Ghodrat is a disabled simple young boy who lives with a watchman of a shrine in a village. The watchman thinks that the people of village are having a misbelief to the shrine and they seldom come there like before. On the other hand people have lost their faith since none of their wishes and requests have been fulfilled by the shrine. During this time the watchman leaves the village for some time and puts Ghodrat in charge of shrine works. Ghodrat has this gift to communicate with spirits of those buried in shrines garden. Being so simple he spends all the belongings and the money of the shrine for the people and very soon the shrine is empty. One night a shepherdess loses her sheeps in darkness. Ghodrat who is in love with the girl, holds a light all night till morning until all the sheeps come to shrine .The next morning Ghodrat leaves the village by train towards a place where he believes the Master of shrine is there.

The adventure of a plane crash with passengers who have different secrets; the secrets that are not supposed to remain hidden forever...

After Islamic Revolution in Iran, many iranians left Iran .now some of them returns to their motherland. 2. A German scientist investigated whether turtles which left Iranian beaches returns to their motherland after thirty years or not.

A documentary about Kiumars Pourahmad (Persian: کیومرث پوراحمد) (16 December 1949 – 5 April 2023). Pourahmad was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, film editor, and film producer.

This documentary looks at different aspects of the life of Bahman Farmanara, the well known Iranian film director and producer.