Zhalin
A female university student arrives late at night at her dormitory and finds herself locked out. She is forced to make her way across the city to her aunt's house, where she encounters a mysterious man along the way.
The Angel and the Gamekeeper
Set in Rural Iran, this musical tale of love and fantasy revolves around Davood, a ten-year-old theatre kid, who finds himself torn between familial expectations and artistic aspirations, as he is forced to act as a gamekeeper during the night, shouting and sacring away wild boars from his father’s land, while practicing a musical play during the day.
A Revolution on Canvas
In this hybrid political thriller and verité portrait documentary, Sara Nodjoumi, working with co-director and husband, Till Schauder, makes her directorial debut with this personal film, diving into the mystery surrounding the disappearance of more than 100 “treasonous” paintings by her father, seminal Iranian modern artist Nickzad Nodjoumi.
One of These Days, Khosrow Will Die
Khosrow is an elderly man living alone, exercising his daily routine, haunted by the overwhelming fear that one day he will die in solitude and his body will go unnoticed, left to rot. Beneath his strange isolation, however, Khosrow harbors a dark and terrifying secret.
Leili’s Photo
Eight-year-old Leili needs to take a pinhole picture of her family for school the next day, but her family will not cooperate.
The Word
A young boy and his father arguing on the road while the son teaching his father how to drive. Gradually, the tension between the two increases and causes a conflict between them.
Seven Valleys
Lost in time and space, in a horrifying land of no existence, a woman embarks on a spiritual journey, crossing The Seven Valleys of Love as described by Persian poet Attar of Nishapur.
