The Cherries Which Were Canned

Six urban women reveal their family recipes in a film that, at first glance, may look like an introduction to local cuisine, but which turns into a surprising exploration of relationships in modern Iranian society.

Rahmat travels to a host of islands in a vast salt pan in order to collect the inhabitant's tears for an unknown purpose. He is joined on his mysterious journey by a young boy searching for his father. As their travel nears its end, a potent critique of Iran's political leadership emerges.

The mood in the summer villa in northern Iran, near the Caspian Sea, is exuberant. Milad and Armin gather with friends for a weekend shaped by effortless closeness. The news that Bita is pregnant by Milad adds to the fragility of their relationship. The next morning, the hosts’ fathers arrive, each carrying their own fractures

An old mother tries to persuade beautiful girls on the streets of Tehran to marry her only son.

One of the first digital Persian underground films

The film follows Mir Qanbar, an elderly Iranian man, as he campaigns in the country's presidential election.

The story of 6 deaf young men who go to Luna Park to get crazy.

Pooneh is stuck in the elevator. A man outside is trying to help her. They exchange numbers and start to talk. This is going to be something more than a rescue mission.

A radiology of Tehran bay homeless and migrant civil workers.

Mohammad would not be taken to the cinema, because he didn't get his parent's permission.

A political documentary in which the filmmaker speaks with American hostages and Iranian hostage- takers after 29 years from the event.

A young woman goes on a journey to find a shrine she has accidentally come across while travelling with her husband a few years ago, to pray for the healing of her husband’s illness. The only thing that can help her find the way is a film they have shot with a home camera on their previous journey.

A laborer father has no choice but to take his mentally retarded son to an asylum. But will it solve his problems?

The film criticizes film festivals in totalitarian regimes with a parodic expression and reminds the important point that art should be in Stand against the power and always be a reformer and a fighter. The character of this film, played by Mohammad Shirvani, is called "Peel", a creature with a human body and a camera-like head. Peel, along with a seahorse, a blind mouse and a bat, are assigned to the largest egg on the planet, which belongs to a legendary bird. The name is "Simorgh", an egg that a film festival called Fajr claims to have. The film "Zygote" tries to expose the mechanism of government festivals with a political approach.

A documentary about the life and career of Gholam Peirovani, a football coach in Iran, and he manages his team in a spiritual style.

selected by critics international Cannes film festival 1999