Films 2014

Bardou is a 16-year-old teenager who has recently lost his father lives in arid lands along with his sick mother and his younger brother. He tries to convince his mother to leave their home and grave of his father in order to move to the village to have access to medical care.

The war in Iraq had many victims. Many of them refugees. Atef, a quiet English school teacher, has been living in Baghdad for years.

Pirouz Kalantari (*1953 in Teheran) gehört seit Jahrzehnten zu den wichtigsten iranischen Dokumentarfilmern; zuletzt entstanden „Kahrizak, Four Views“ (zusammen mit Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Mohsen Amiryusefi und Bahman Kiarostami) sowie „If There Were Not the Aged-People“ (beide 2012).

A number of students have traveled to the Caspian region in order to participate in a kite-flying event during the winter solstice. Next to their camp is a small hut occupied by three cooks who work at a nearby restaurant.

In the morning of 27 March 2012, the Iranian movie “A Separation” won the Oscar Award for the Best Foreign Language Film. For the Iranian people who were impatiently glued to their TV screens, this was more than a cinematic award.

Tennessee Williams’ „Die Glasmenagerie“ im Iran: Die alleinerziehende Farideh sorgt immer noch für ihre erwachsenen Kinder, die den Lebensalltag nicht meistern können: die gehbehinderte Yalda träumt inmitten ihrer Sammlung aus Glasfigürchen, der Bruder Ehsan verbringt sein Leben im Kino. Dann taucht Reza auf…

Negin is spending a few days on holiday with her boyfriend Omid and her sister Nazanin in a villa on the banks of the Caspian Sea. Not having had news of Omid for several hours Negin decides to go with her friend Farnaz to a party being held by Kami, a common friend.

Leyla and Kaveh are the instruments of a cruel and bizarre game. The well-situated couple drive through the mountains distributing plastic bags full of money to every poor and unfortunate person they meet.

Negahdar Jamali, an Iranian from Shiraz introduced himself: “My Name Is Negahdar Jamali And I Make Westerns.”

Contemporary short film spans from student talents to professional festival movies.

Leila, a young provincial girl, has recently married and now lives in Tehran.

Yasaman has been living with her mother Leila since birth. Leila has never let her see her father. When Yasaman gets brain death in an accident, Leila has one week time to get consent from her ex-husband for a vital issue.

The Lady with Flower-Hair is a woman of forty, on whose hair have grown a set of carnations. She was different even from childhood. She now lives alone. She is preoccupied with the flowers on her hair but the co-existence of two beings with absolutely nothing in common is bound to cause discomfort for one of them.

Mina, the director, is a girl from Shiraz who gets married in order to move to Tehran. Influenced by her own life, she decides to make a documentary about the girls nationwide who, like Azar, move to Tehran (the capital) to start an independent life away from their families’ watchful eyes and restrictions.