Iranian New Wave Movies

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemi...

An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening sce...

An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his po...

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to tr...

A minimalist study of lonely, isolated existence. Mohamad Sardari has spent thirty years at a remote outpost raising and lowering a gate to keep road...

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the...

THE BRIGHT DAY weaves a story that has its roots in the complexity of Iran’s draconian laws governing capital punishment. A kindergarten teacher hopes...

Mr Ahmadi gets on an inter-city minibus for a relatively straightfoward trip. The mileu of arrivals and departures brings his journey new meaning.

Tunnel 18 (Persian: تونل 18‎‎) is a 1997 Iranian Historical drama film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)

For forty years, Esfandiar has been unconcernedly preparing corpses for the journey to their final resting place. One day, whilst preparing a burial s...

Jafar Panahi's short film, shot with one uninterrupted long take, about siblings trying to sell a carpet in need of money.

Echo (Persian: پژواك‎‎) is a 1997 Iranian Drama film Written and directed by Hossein Shahabi.

A documentary about life and career of an eighty-year-old Iranian actress, Iran Daftari.

Forough is a middle aged woman whose husband has temporarily married with another woman. Even though that was kept secret from her, but his action is...

The Last Word (Persian: حرف آخر‎‎) is a 2009 social drama Iranian film Written And Directed By Hossein Shahabi. This is a film about Iranian champion...

A film written and directed by Siavash

The Traces of Light (Persian: رد پاي نور‎‎) is a 1996 Iranian drama film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)

Rain Tree (Persian: درخت بارانی‎‎) is a 2001 Iranian drama film Written and directed by Hossein Shahabi.