A Time For Drunken Horses
(2000) [M]

For Kurdish children Ameneh, Ayoub and Madi, life is hard. Their mother is dead and their father is often away from home trying to earn the money to keep his family. During these long absences, the children work everyday in a nearby town wrapping glasses for export, or staggering under the heavy...  More

The Circle
(2000) [PG]

Three Iranian women must contend with a repressive political regime that has placed a stranglehold on nearly every aspect of their lives in this hard-hitting social drama. In a nation where a woman cannot buy a bus ticket out of town or accept a car ride from a man, much less have an abortion,...  More

Kandahar
(2001) [PG]

Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf examines the troubling story of life in neighboring Afghanistan in this compelling drama. Nafas (Niloufar Pazira) is a reporter who was born in Afghanistan, but fled with her family to Canada as a child, escaping the violence of the country's political...  More

Ten
(2002) [PG]

A perceptive and revealing portrait of contemporary Iran set in Tehran, Ten begins with a beautiful and articulate female driver (the beguiling Mania Akbari) picking up her young son from school. After boldly revealing in a less than harmonious exchange that the woman has divorced her husband,...  More

The Wind Will Carry Us
(1999) [PG]

A visually-stunning masterpiece from Iran's most critically acclaimed director, The Wind Will Carry Us follows a group of engineers' intrusion into a remote Kurdish village to document the mourning ritual practiced by its local inhabitants. Awaiting the death of an old woman, they are continually...  More

Taste of Cherry
(1997) [PG]

A beautiful meditation on life and existence, THE TASTE OF CHERRY follows a day in the life of Badii (Homayoun Ershadi), an affluent middle-aged man who has lost his instinct for living. Surrounded by the bustling vitality of Iranian working life, Badii approaches several people with a request to...  More

Turtles Can Fly
(2004) [M]

Set in Ghobadi's native Kurdistan, close to the Turkey-Iran border. Soran is a 13-year-old boy who orders other children around as he installs an antenna for villagers keen to hear of Saddam's fall. Eventually, he falls for Agrin but is disturbed by her brother Henkov, who was left armless after...  More

Crimson Gold
(2003) [M]

We see an attack on a jeweller’s shop in Teheran. The raid gets totally out of hand. Before the film has picked up speed, the attacker has pointed the gun at his own temple. Panahi then cuts to pizza delivery boy Hussain, fat and bloated as a result of cortisone treatment. Together with his...  More

Offside
(2006) [PG]

In conservative Iran, public life is is the realm of men only, where women are even banned from attending football matches. As the Islamic Republic competes for a place in the 2006 World Cup, a group of fervent female football supporters disguise themselves as men so they too can watch to see...  More

Baran
(2001) [PG]

From Iranian director Majid Majidi (CHILDREN OF HEAVEN), BARAN is the story of Lateef, a 17-year-old boy who lives in Tehran and works in the kitchen on a construction site. Hotheaded and always ready for a fight, Lateef resents his boss Memar for holding his wages to send to his father at the...  More