Poverty

25-year-old Arghavan lives with her parents in Tehran, and intends to marry her fiancé, Hesam. One day, her short stories win her a grant to...

A playwright Iran tries to confront a creative crisis while political clashes erupt during her country's 2009 election.

Tucker and Hamid are going to be grandfathers for the first time, but only if they can come together long enough to save their first-born grandchild.

An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.

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...

A poetic imagining of the circumstances leading to the death of Yazdgerd III, the last of the Sassanid kings of Iran. His death in 651, during the...

A Tehran mullah-in-training struggles to take care of his ailing wife and their children in this profoundly moving melodrama. A film of...

The story is about a doll named Amo Pumble who teaches children how to live in society by reading a magic book to children.

An Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo.

Mina’s family has introduced her to few potential husbands in Iran. She has rejected them all until she meets Kian, a surgeon who has travelled...

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their...

An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.