A woman alone in an old manor in the Iranian mountains. A simple life of hard work and caring for animals, painted in the warmest colours. But this idyll has enemies …
Three Yezidi girls are cowering in the UNHCR tent A157 at the Turkish-Syrian border: escaped from Isis, raped, violated, pregnant. An attempt to cope.
A man yet or still a boy? This is the pivotal decision in a home for addicts in Tehran, where you have to face up to your dependencies if you want to get off the streets for good.
Children perform a puppet theatre version of the fairytale “The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats” and identify strongly with their roles. The boundaries between acting and real life begin to blur.
The Iranian shepherd boy Asho wants to be in front of the camera. The only question is whether his cousin and future bride Pari will let him. Perhaps they should simply both become famous?
After five years in exile in Europe the director returns to Iran to make a film. She asks her friends to act in it. What starts as a game during the shoot gradually turns into a brutal clash between those who stayed and the one who left.
Every day, thousands of Afghans want to leave their Iranian exile. In the return centre in Tehran, the longing for home meets the Iranian bureaucracy. Human, complex, eye-opening.
All the members of the large Iranian family are against the father and the director tries to stay on top of the jungle of different statements. A tragicomic family saga.
14-year-old Khatemeh lives in extremely restrictive structures in the Iranian city of Shiraz. She runs away to escape a forced marriage. But the case is anything but clear.
An adolescent girl rejects the social role it’s meant to play and hides all her feelings and thoughts in a secret world filled with animal creatures.
Hypnotic songs which accompany and outlast an artist’s life that ends in tragedy. A city between social stagnation and pulsating energy. Beach and desert.
The Shiite mourning ritual of Ashura as a secular mass catering challenge: hectolitres of soup are prepared and distributed to 5,000 believers. A bold miniature.
Little Elika explains that people in Iran like five things above all: rice, the sun, ice cream, fish and tulips. She gives a presentation about her home country in a Belgian school.
A group portrait of confident female criminals in Iran: neither charismatic bad girls nor victims of circumstances, but women with soft spots and hard edges, beyond familiar stereotypes.
