Movies: Maede Tahmasbi

Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran....

The satirical commentary on clergymen in post-revolutionary Iran. While in prison, petty criminal Reza (Parviz Parastui) comes across a clergyman, sparking a plan for escape. Reza dons his new acquaintance's clerical robes and makes a bid for freedom...

A passionate declaration of love for the cinema and poetry of Iran, which also offers a frank view of the precarious situation for critics of the regime and shows the uncompromising daily struggle of Iranian women against their oppression....

Roya and Babak are a young couple who intend to emigrate from Iran. Roya's encounter with an anonymous girl is the beginning of strange events in their life....

Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family because of this profession, which they despise. He falls for one of his...

Hours before her scheduled marriage, young bride-to-be Shirin murders a man. The crime is completely unexpected and goes against everything we know of her. We learn that Shirin has had two unsuccessful marriage attempts, and is deeply psychologically...

Fred is unemployed and just gambling. He lives with his sick mother. He meets Roxana who is filming the wedding ceremonies and then he becomes her assistant. On their first work trip to the north of Iran, Roxana gets involved in a serious problem but...

After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant, run by four women, one of them a girl whom he once dated. A...

Three different stories of three women. In the first Mehrnaz is a widow who is living with her daughter alone. In the second Shahla takes care of her disabled husband and in the third Farzaneh is a young girl who has problems with her fiance....

During Iran-Iraq war Noor Aldin who is a carpenter is missing. He is captured by Iraqi army. After 8 years he returns home, but finds out that in his absence his wife is married to another man....

The truth carries a heavy burden, whether it is said that it sets off a storm, or it remains in the heart that disturbs man. Between telling the truth and revealing a secret or being silent and expedient, one is preferable to the other....

A former bourgeoisie family's preoccupation with socio-economic identity continues even into death as they decide what the best burial plot for their aunt is....

Parinaaz's mother dies in an accident. The only relative to take care of Parinaaz is an aunt who despises her. Their relationship is to be challenged through different unnatural events....

Shooka, a spirited, hardworking girl from an Iranian mountain village is to be married in an arranged marriage. Shokrollah, her neighbor with Down syndrome, has been head over heels in love......

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