Banu Film
A Generation Z in the Middle East, an Afghan teenage girl, immigrant in Iran, strives to pursue her dream of becoming a professional Muay Thai boxer while fighting social injustice and violence beyond the ring.
“Wednesday, May 9”(Chaharshanbeh, 19 Ordibehesht)
A man named “Jalal” publishes an unusual advertisement in one of Tehran’s morning papers to donate $10,000 to a needy person. The news gathers a large group of people. At the end of the day, he receives many application forms, and he eventually decides to choose one by chance.
We Are Half of Iran’s Population
Rakhshan Beni-Etamad’s We Are Half of Iran’s Population gives voice to Iranian women oppressed by draconian marriage laws, male-on-female violence, educational gender quotas and other hallmarks of second-class citizenship.
Under the Skin of the City
This is a film about the life of a woman. Tuba, who works in a weaving factory, is carrying the burden of her husband and four children on her shoulder and trying to make a better life for her children, what she couldn’t have so far. Her eldest son, Abbas, is so worried about the mother and is searching for a better work, hopeful for a better condition for the family. But he makes the family’s condition worse, and puts everyone in trouble…
Our Times
Rakhshan Banietemad decides to capture images of people involved in the presidential elections of 2001 in Iran. She follows some young cinema actors and artists, including her young daughter, who with lots of hopes and desires for future have started a campaign for Khatami. Meeting some of 48 female presidency nominees whose candidacies have been refused by the government, director is deeply attracted by the character of a 25-year-old widow named Arezoo Bayat, who, despite carrying the heavy burden on her shoulders, wishes to fight not only for a better life for herself, her 9-year-old daughter and blind mother but also for all of Iranian. Afterwards, Rakhshan forgets the main atmosphere of that time and joins Arezoo who has to leave her small home finding another shelter in Tehran, and it’s where we find ourselves beside Arezoo and her problems.
No Date, No Signature
A tad overdetermined in its studied, snowballing ambiguities, “No Date, No Signature” is dramatized with an acute sense of the role of class in Iranian society, and is unfussily well directed, creating visual parallels between the two men.
Hava, Maryam, Ayesha
Hava, Maryam, Ayesha A film by Sahraa Karimi.
Gilaneh
Gilaneh by Rakhshan Banietemad
Aghanoo
For 40 years, Aghanoo, a loner on his Persian Gulf tugboat, rescues a foreigner who’s suspected of being a spy. Despite language barriers, they bond. Aghanoo faces a risky decision to protect his new friend.
Maydegol
A Generation Z in the Middle East, an Afghan teenage girl, immigrant in Iran, strives to pursue her dream of becoming a professional Muay Thai boxer while fighting social injustice and violence beyond the ring.