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Films from the country "iran", sorted by production date
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The Bear (2012)
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Parviz Parastui, Merila Zarei, Farhad Aslani, Kazem HajirAzad
Here Without Me (2012)
, 1h30Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Saber Abar, Negar Javaherian, Fatemah Motamed-Aria, Parsa Piroruzfar
Based on The Glass Menagerie, the movie details the story of Yalda (Negar Javaherian), a disabled girl who has a great interest for collecting glass animals and harbors a secret attraction towards her brother Ehsan's best friend Reza (Parsa Pirouzfar). Her brother Ehsan (Saber Abar), whose voiceover introduces the film, writes poetry and desperately dreams of leaving Iran. He dreams of being a writer and spends his spare time haunting cinemas and watching old movies over and over. Farideh (Fatemeh Motamed-Aria) holds down two jobs to help support her family. Farideh is the only member of the family who interacts with the brutal conditions of Iran and willingly takes the challenge. Farideh is probably the most altered of Williams' characters (Amanda) in the original play.
Facing Mirrors (2012)
, 1h42Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films about automobiles, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Homayoun Ershadi, Saber Abar, Rabe'e Oskooyi
Son mari étant en prison, une femme se voit obligée de travailler comme conductrice de taxi pour rembourser ses dettes. En pleine route, elle rencontre un homme mystérieux qui lui propose de l'amener à la rivière de Kojūr , au nord de l'Iran, pour 1 000 000 tomans. Ce dernier est, en fait, un homme trans qui veut échapper à un mariage forcé.
Par le temps (2011)
, 45minutesOrigin Iran
Genres Documentary
Dans ce film documentaire de 45 minutes, en outre Les parties du discours et des opinions religieuses et politiques de l'ayatollah Montazeri, certains personnages ont parlé comme : Ezzatollah Sahabi, Ahmad Salamatian, Mohammad Javad Akbarein, Reza Alijani, Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari, Masoud Adib, Farokh Negahdar et Movahedi.
I am a Mother (2011)
, 1h37Origin Iran
Actors Baran Kosari, Farhad Aslani, Pantea Bahram, Habib Rezaei
I am a Mother' tells the story of a young woman raped by a man who is a close friend of her parents. She kills the man in revenge for the offence and then her mother claims she was the murderer in order to save her daughter from qisas, the Islamic law of equal retaliation in punishment. However, the rapist’s wife wants the young woman to be executed.
Crime (2011)
, 1h50Directed by Masoud Kimiai
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Hamed Behdad, Niki Karimi, Dariush Arjmand, Jamshid Mashayekhi
It depicts the story of a man in old Tehran trying to remain faithful to his principles and beliefs and therefore faces certain dilemmas in this regard.
Color of Love (2011)
, 4minutesOrigin Iran
Genres Fantasy
Themes Children's films
In Color of Love, a crow who is new to the farm wants to become friends with the cat that already lives there. To be attract the cat's attention, the crow dyes itself white. Meanwhile, the cat, who wants to become friends with the crow, dyes itself black. When they realize that they dyed themselves the opposite color of themselves, they become friends.
Color of Love (2011)
, 4minutesOrigin Iran
Genres Fantasy
Themes Children's films
Color of love is a story about a crow comes into a farm and wants to make friendship with a white cat who already lives there. To be attract cat's attention, the crow does any work, which it imagines about cat's thought, such as whiting itself. It makes itself white while the same thing happens to cat; it means, cat makes itself black as well. Both cat and crow was thinking about each other without knowing about it. At the end of the story, both of them become friend with opposite color.
Two & Two (2011)
, 7minutesOrigin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Bijan Daneshmand
The film starts when a male teacher comes to the grey classroom. The headmaster says "good morning" and announced a message that there will be ongoing changes in the school, and said that the students' teachers will advise them further. The teacher tells the children that two plus two equals five. He told the children to be silent, otherwise to have order in the classroom. The teacher writes 2 + 2 = 5 on the chalkboard and tells the children to repeat after him, in order to know. A student asked the teacher that two plus two is four, then the teacher said that two plus two was actually five, and told him to sit down and be quiet. The teacher told them to put their notebooks out to write 2 + 2 = 5. While the teacher was saying the expression, another student was saying that two plus two was four. The teacher asked him who gave the student permission to talk, and scolded the student. He was ordering the student to say 2 + 2 = 5 but the student denied. A student was saying 2 + 2 = 4, but the teacher was ordering to face the front. Then, the teacher sent the 3 older students and the older three students said two plus two equals five was true. A student had to stand next to the teacher. The teacher was holding the chalk. When the teacher said to the student that it was his last chance, he cleaned the 5 and replaced it with 4. At the end, the older students started shooting at the classroom and injured the student. An injured student was later taken by the older students. The teacher cleans everything from the chalkboard. A student writes on his notebook 2 + 2 = 5 and then he strikes the 5 and writes the 4 next to the stroken 5.
The Momentary Marriage (2011)
Directed by Reza Serkanian
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Melodrama
Actors Mahnaz Mohammadi
Maryam, jeune veuve, a décidé de quitter l'Iran. Avant de partir, elle rend, avec sa petite fille Sarah, une dernière visite à sa belle-famille. Elle y retrouve Kazem, le frère de son défunt mari, qui rentre du service militaire, ainsi qu'Effat. Effat et Kazem s'aiment depuis leur prime jeunesse et le mariage leur est promis. Mais maintenant qu'ils sont adultes, toute proximité leur est interdite avant les noces.
Mourning (2011)
, 1h25Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Sahar Dolatshahi, Peymân Maâdi
Dans la pénombre, on entend un couple se disputer violemment. Puis, ils quittent précipitamment leur domicile. Les phares de leur véhicule éclairent alors la chambre de leur fils Arshia, âgé de dix ans, qui ne dort pas et n'a donc rien perdu de la scène. Dès le lendemain, l'oncle et la tante de l'enfant, tous deux sourds, partent sur des routes escarpées et sinueuses à la recherche des parents. Or, la route s'avère, en fin de compte, douloureuse : les parents d'Arshia sont victimes d'un terrible accident…
The Maritime Silk Road (2011)
, 2hOrigin Iran
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Reza Kianian, Dariush Arjmand, Ezatollah Entezami, Bahram Radan, Pegah Ahangarani
Un marin iranien nommé Soleiman Siraf fut le premier à traverser l’Océan Indien pour se rendre en Chine. Son trajet a été alors nommé "la Route de la soie maritime" et beaucoup de marchands ont pris cette route pour apporter leurs marchandises en Chine. Un des passagers dans le film est un jeune homme, Shazan Ibn Youssof, qui tient un journal de ce voyage. La Route de la soie maritime débute dans le Golfe Persique et s’en va en Chine et en Thaïlande. Certaines scènes du film ont été tournées à Kanchanaburi, Thaïlande, avec des éléphants du Camp de Taweechai Elephant.
Goodbye (2011)
, 1h40Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Hasan Pourshirazi, Shahab Hosseini, Behnam Tashakkor, Roya Teymourian
Noura (Leyla Zareh) is an attorney whose license has been revoked by the government, as her resultant attempts at escape meet with ever-mounting roadblocks. Evoking a sense of dread and despair, Rasoulof (himself officially constrained from making more films) constructs a fitting metaphor for the stultifying pressures faced by many in today’s Iran.
