Taste Of Cherry (1997)

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Starring: Homayoun Ershadi, Adolhossein Bagheri

One of the great works of recent international cinema and the apex of contemporary Iranian film, Abbas Kiarostami's brilliant and deceptively simple f... Read more

Tehran Taxi (2015)

Director: Jafar Panahi

Starring: Jafar Panahi

The great Iranian director Jafar Panahi (Offside, The Circle) has never let being barred from filmmaking stop him. For the third time since the ban wa... 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

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

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 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 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 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 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

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