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

A Time for Drunken Horses (2001)

Director: Bahman Ghobadi

Starring: Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi

Lyrical, emotional and bleak drama about several siblings of a poverty stricken Kurdish family desperately trying to find funding for the treatment of... 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

Kandahar (2001)

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Starring: Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai, Sadou Teymouri, Hoyatala Hakimi

Nafas, a young Afghan journalist now living in Canada recieves a desperate letter from her sister in Afghanistan who intends to kill herself at the ne... 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

Blackboards (2000)

Director: Samira Makhmalbaf

Starring: Bahman Ghobadi, Said Mohamadi, Behnaz Jafari

In the brutal mountains of the Iran/Iraq border, two nomadic teachers, Reeboir and Said, roam the landscape in search of pupils. They carry their blac... 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 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

Gabbeh (1995)

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Starring: Shaghayegh Djodat, Hossein Moharami, Abbas Sayahi

A nomadic tribe in south-east Iran, on the verge of extinction and renowned for weaving gabbeh's, is the setting for this idyllic tale of the love bet... Read more

Children of Heaven (1997)

Director: Majid Majidi

Starring: Mohammad Amir Naji, Karnal Mirkarimi, Amir Farrokh Hashemian

This acclaimed heart-warming tale follows two young siblings in an Iranian city as they try to keep the loss of their sister's only shoes from their p... Read more