Iran Movies

Short combining fiction and documentary.

Persian (Iranian) Movie

Dawn of the Capricorn, made by Ahmad Faroughi Kadjar (Qajar) in 1964, is a strange composition that looks at the stagnated situation of a country susp...

Directed by Barbod Taheri.

Short film directed by Hushang Shafti showing a study of the life of primitive nomad tribesmen, embodying traditional Persian customs and music.

In this stunningly composed short film, the movement of a train and its arrival at Tehran’s central station is imaginatively edited in sync with maest...

Re-edited version of Farokh Ghafari's Jonube shahr without director attribution.

Directed by Manuchehr Tayyab.

Directed by Reza Allamehzadeh.

This documentary shows the Zaar tradition in Bandar Lengeh in south of Iran. It is kind of local dancing and singing to exorcist the Jinn from people...

Short ethnographic documentray about Arba'een, a Shia Muslim religious observance

This movie takes a unique look at Baghtcheban School, the special school for deaf children, how it deal with teaching the kids and how they lives are...

Introduces the official religions and denominations in Iran and It depicts the performance of various religious ceremonies in mosques, prayer rooms, c...

Nahid and Farhad met each other at one of the night parties of the National Music Association and soon fell in love. Nahid's father is a wealthy busin...

Directed by Esmail Kushan.

The story is about a leggy-man and a short-man producing funny performs.

Behman Mahmoudi has been known as the first "teenage martyr" in the war between Iran and Iraq. When Iraq's army began the invasion to Khormashahr, he...

A crazed child-murderer who kills in the name of God becomes a symbol condemning religious fanaticism and violence in Ali Mohammad Ghasemi's visually...