Under the Shadow (2015)

Director: Babak Anvari

Starring: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi

Infused with autobiographical elements, Babak Anvaris debut feature is a terrifying allegory of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War, a now often overlooked con... Read more

Turtles Can Fly (2004)

Director: Bahman Ghobadi

Starring: Soran Ebrahim, Hirsh Feyssal, Avaz Latif

On the border of Iraq and Turkey, in the days leading up to the second US-led war, a young technology-obsessed boy nicknamed Satellite convinces the v... Read more

This is Not a Film (2011)

Director: Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

Starring: Jafar Panahi

This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-t... Read more

The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

A few people arrive from Tehran for a short stay at Siah Dareh, a village in Iranian Kurdistan. The locals do not know why they are there. The strange... Read more

The Salesman (2016)

Director: Asghar Farhadi

Starring: Babak Karimi, Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini

Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and his wife Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti) are actors in an amateur Tehran production of Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman. When... Read more

The Hunter (2010)

Director: Rafi Pitts

Starring: Mitra Hajjar, Rafi Pitts

"Shekarchi" Ali (Rafi Pitts) is a reformed criminal who lives in a small flat in Tehran with his wife Sara and their young daughter Saba. While he's g... Read more

The Day I Became a Woman (2000)

Director: Marziyeh Meshkini

Starring: Fatemeh Cheragh, Akhar, Shabnam Toloui, Azizeh Sedighi

Marziyeh Meshkini's compelling and poignant study of the elementary problems faced by women in Eastern societies looks at three different generations... Read more

The Color of Paradise (1999)

Director: Majid Majidi

Starring: Mohsen Ramezani

This beautifully rendered film centers on an 8-year-old blind boy named Mohammad whose poor, widowed father has no interest in raising him. After he's... Read more

The Apple (1998)

Director: Samira Makhmalbaf

Starring: Massoumeh Naderi, Zahra Naderi, Azizeh Mohamadi

Based on a true incident and using the family involved, this unique film tells a bizarre but engaging story. In Tehran, two twin daughters live as vir... Read more

Ten (2002)

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Starring: Mania Akbari

Aka "10". A perceptive and revealing portrait of contemporary Iran set in Tehran, "Ten" begins with a beautiful and articulate female driver (Mania Ak... Read more