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A Time for Drunken Horses

After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.

The Riverside

It's March 2003 and many Iraqi Kurds are fleeing towards the Iranian border trying to escape the bombardment of Kirkuk.

Letters in the Wind

Set in a snowy Iranian army training camp, the intimacy of the barracks is contrasted with the namelessness of the conscripts. This movie most closely tracks the conversations of two soon to be soldiers and the hand held tape recorder that one hides from the drill instructors. When one of them gets a leave to go to Tehran this recorder becomes a means of communicating to home for many of the conscripts, and is a way for them to pick up the sounds of the city in the remote training camp.

Tiny Snowflakes

Two men ward off loneliness and boredom while guarding a mine in rural Iran.

A Petition for Allah

A man seeks to collect an affidavit in order to die in peace.

At the End of 8th Street

Niloufar (Taraneh Alidoosti) lives with her family. After an incident happened, her family exposed to a deep trouble: they have to provide a large amount of money to save a family member's life while they have only three days ...

Seven Minutes to Fall

Domestic drama charting the course of a self-effacing Iranian couple as their ordered lives begin to fracture under the strain of work commitments, money troubles and the responsibility of family. Mitra and Nima are struggling to make ends meet, their relationship in desperate need of rekindling. But when Mitra's sister Maryam shows up on their doorstep, on the run from her estranged husband, their lives are tipped over the edge by the ensuing scandal. As Mitra and Nima reflect on their own lives and take sides against one another, events will come to a head as the weight of disloyalty begins to unravel a once perfect relationship.

The 4th Round

Involved in different legal and illegal petty works, Mohammad is working and living in a room in the biggest football stadium in Tehran with his wife and his little son. During a riot in Tehran, he disappears when two women are looking forward to seeing him impatiently: his wife, Maryam, who is desperately seeking him all through the city, and a convicted woman, Shahla, who needs him as the only witness who can save her from death with a confession in the appeal court…

Bitter

Three young people who will do anything to pursue a singing career and leave the country. At a nighttime party, they use hallucinogenic pills, and one of them dies in an incident, and his corpse becomes a problem for his two friends...

I'm not Crazy

A narrative of the lives of a number of psychiatric patients in a sanatorium in north of Iran.