Mehri Mehrinia

Domrol is a young and strong guy. He wins the title of “the champion of champions” after defeating all the other athletes. After a while though, he starts missing real fights and the fact that he has no opponents to fight anymore saddens him. As a result, he starts hurting people in order to satisfy his need for quarrel. He later finds a proper opponent, but he dies of a bee sting. This enrages Domrol no end, and he starts cussing at God. At that moment, the angel of death appears before him and informs him that should he fail to find a volunteer who would be willing to die for him before the sunrise, his own life will be taken. Domrol begs his parents, but they refuse to do such a sacrifice. Finally his wife accepts to surrender to the angel of death instead of Domrol, but after God sees their pure love, he forgives them.

A colonel, who has two daughters working as nurses in Tehran, retires to a small city. The man marries a teacher from the provinces and goes with her to Tehran. However, he finds that his daughters have changed. The elder daughter eventually commits suicide and the younger daughter goes through an ill-fated marriage. The father, observing the problems of his children, goes insane and is confined to an asylum. For its political and social content, the film was banned by the government for several years.

Ayyoob marries a girl who has lost her memory in a car accident with him. The question of girl's true identity gradually affects Ayyoob's life.

À Téhéran, Hashem découvre un poupon sur la banquette arrière de son taxi. Alors qu’il cherche à se débarrasser de l’enfant, sa fiancée Taji souhaite le garder.

Kolah Ghermezi is a naughty school boy. His playfulness gets him expelled from school and he fails to find a job. He sees a program on TV which attracts his attention and he goes to Tehran. With the help of Pesarkhaleh, he goes to the TV program he had seen and finds the reporter. He likes the reporter so much that he decides to help him overcome the obstacles he faces for getting married, but instead causes troubles.

Based on a short story by Houshang Golshiri, this film centers on mysterious and chilling events that take place in a village. A group of superstitious inhabitants have erected a scarecrow for protection but soon find themselves terrorized by it. Made at the end of the Shah’s reign, the film offers a metaphorical reflection on power relations — how people create their own idols who turn around to terrorize them.

An Iranian villager wants to restore a nearby well in hopes of solving a water sortage, but is haunted by a local legend of a monster that drinks the wells dry.

Voici notre maison de famille... nous dit Shirin Sar Poulaki, la fille unique d'un influent homme d'affaires du grand bazar de Téhéran, Haj Ibrahim (on l'appelle Haj car il a fait le pèlerinage de la Mecque comme tout bon Musulman pratiquant). Shirin mène la vie tranquille d'une jeune fille de la bonne société de Téhéran mais son oncle Saeed s'entête auprès de son père pour l'engager dans son agence de voyage ; elle se décide enfin à travailler pour se familiariser avec le monde du travail. Sanglés dans son uniforme d'hôtesse, le destin va se présenter à elle sous la forme d'un séduisant jeune Américain qui se rend à l'agence pour acheter un billet d'avion pour Shiraz, la ville des roses et des poètes... Un véritable coup de foudre se produit entre les deux jeunes gens... Voici donc le début de notre histoire : Haj Ibrahim refuse systématiquement d'accorder la main de sa fille unique à un étranger, et, plus spécialement, à un Américain dont le pays est l'ennemi juré de l'Iran...

SHORT FILM "RELEASE" BY NASSER TAHAVI

Prince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, is suffering from tuberculosis, which he knows is fatal. He spends his last days alone in the magnificent rooms of his wintry palace, from where he recollects the glory days of his ancestors as well as days of degradation. Among the latter are the gruesome manner in which his cruel grandfather murdered his mother and brother, and the way that he himself caused the death of his wife.

In the village of Hesar in Urmia provinces, two tribes have an old dispute with each other. They are known as Baladehi and Paeindehi. The movie tells the story of their conflicts. The Paeindehis purchase a bus after selling a salt marsh near the sea, causing Baladehis who live their lives by riding chariots (ilinka), lose their job. Disputes resume and the teacher and Pirbaba (elder) of the village try to reconcile them, but the village chief who does not want to lose his profits, makes the Baladehis buy a bus as well.... The arrival of the bus to the village reveals the fact that the village chief has planned it all to acquire more and more wealth. Learning this, the two tribes forget their dispute to punish the chief, and afterwards, they all resume their normal lives.

Soleiman who is unemployed is going from his village to the city to find a work. He take his younger brother Namaki who has schizophrenia with him and go to his other brother Morad's home who live in the city. But Morad begins to annoy Namaki causing him to becomes more tension. Namaki kidnapped a boy thinking that this is his brother and go to the top of an unfinished building. But Soleiman and the police are after him.