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  • Homework

    مشق شب
    Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1989 • Iran
    In Kiarostami's second documentary feature about education, the filmmaker himself asks the questions, interviewing a succession of invariably cute first- and second-graders about their home situations and the schoolwork they must do there. It emer...

  • First Graders

    اولی‌ها
    Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1984 • Iran
    Inspired by his work at Kanoon and his own sons' schooling, the first of Kiarostami's two documentary features about education observes a schoolyard full of chanting, playful boys but mainly transpires in the office of a supervisor who has to dea...

  • Fellow Citizen

    همشهری
    Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1983 • Iran
    Kiarostami's fascination with both Tehrani car culture and the uses of power in post-revolutionary society come together in this documentary about a traffic officer assigned to enforce driving restrictions in central Tehran (a locale near the dire...

  • Snailman

    مرد حلزونی
    Directed by Mazdak Mirabedini • 2021 • Iran
    Mohammad Ali Vandi is 43 and a restless wanderer. He has spent his life away from home, delivering food in Oregon in the United States. This is his last day on the job before he returns to his native Iran. Mohammad remembers all the travellin...

  • Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report

    مهرجویی: کارنامه ۴۰ ساله
    Directed by Mani Haghighi • 2016 • Iran
    Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report dives into the artistic world of Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui. The film offers critical interpretations of his works from cinema experts, enriched with personal anecdotes from his peers. This film ...

  • Football, Spiritual Style

    شیوه شاغلام
    Directed by Omid Abdollahi • 2009 • Iran
    A documentary about the life and career of Gholam Peirovani, a football coach in Iran, and he manages his team in a spiritual style.

  • Trees Die Standing

    درختان ایستاده می‌میرند
    Directed by Hoda Siahtiri • 2016 • Iran/Belgium
    After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, intellectuals and artists fled to Western countries, grappling with the challenges of exile. Delving into the memories and letters of Gholam Hosein Saedi, Trees Die Standing mirrors collecti...

  • I Have To Fly

    من باید پرواز کنم
    Directed by Ghazaleh Razavi • 2020 • Iran
    The story of an 80-year-old Armenian man who once was a sailor, now lives alone in Tehran and is planning to marry a young 28-year-old girl.