Skin

A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s license, applying for a job, or seeking approval for a film script, if you live in Iran, you best come fluent in Orwellian discourse.

A man who wants to pass the border hunts a ram and decides to escape disguised as the animal.

A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, and the youngest keeps exploding into car karaoke. Only the older brother is quiet.

Bahram, a censored director, embarks on a Vespa trip with producer Sadaf to clandestinely screen his film in Iran, challenging the system.

The film tells the story of an 8-year-old schoolboy who lives under constant stress because of his family’s poverty. At school, he repeatedly wets his pants. When he returns home, he hides under his mother’s chador. His mother decides that he must overcome this habit, but because of the problems related to his fugitive father, she faces other difficulties.

A lonely old woman believes that if she whispers her nightmares into the water, her nightmares will go away. But something unexpected hears her. BYE BYE GARBAGE explores how loneliness and imagination intertwine, merging the surreal with the filmmakers’ Iranian cultural roots.

The short film Kuche is the story of a group of documentary makers who go to Mrs. Afkham Shabestri's house to record her memories of her last meeting with her husband, but the film remains puzzled in her dream world to recover her forty-year longing.

"Najes" is the story of a religious man's accident with a dog. Due to the belief that the dog is impure, the man's wife and mother are against keeping it at home. But he thinks the life of a dog should be more important than its impurity.