Films 2016

1965: Commissioner Hafizi gets off his orange Chevrolet Impala to investigate the enigmatic death of a dissident on the island Qeshm in the Persian Gulf.

After his mother’s death the 60-year-old Pensioner Manouchehr heads on to his only friend Khosro. In a small hotel he meets the receptionist Kaveh and labile Mahsa, two young people who, like him, are at a turning-point in life.

Considering his progressive Alzheimer’s disease, 80-year-old Mr. Safari, after the death of his wife, decides to visit his son, who is living in exile.

A young woman leaves her husband and moves from the provincial Damghan to Tehran.

After the dark crystal-meth-drama “Ice Age”, Kiai immerses again into the world of drug dealers. This time he tells an episodic of crime of two Tehran Tricksters, sometimes as tough guys, sometimes dressed as venerable ayatollahs, who regularly mess with the wrong people, never at a loss to witty words.

Once she dreamed of her death, a mother decides to bring her family matters in order. This includes to support her daughter in completing her first film, and even to persuade the movie star Hedieh Tehrāni to play in it

Der charismatische Chef einer Straßengang – von der Öffentlichkeit mal als Verbrecher verdammt, mal als Robin Hood verehrt – begegnet der sozial engagierten Maryam.

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Somewhere in southern Iran three young men are being incarcerated. At the precinct the events that have let to their incarceration are being reenacted. At first, the story takes a backseat to the minimalistic set.

Oskouei’s most recent film portrays underage girls detained for offenses such as pick-pocketing, drug trafficking or manslaughter. Boredom and monotony determine their daily life in jail.

The Tehran bazaar, with its 10 km long covered walkway system, is a world of its own. “Lalezar” is the name of a road in the middle of Tehran, which stands for a bygone cabaret, filming and music culture.

The second part of the trilogy Mehrdad Oskouei shows seven delinquent teenagers ahead of the Iranian New Year. Painfully appears to them in mind the separation from their families.

The 15-year-old orphan boy Atiq, named after Colombian Footballer “Valderama” because of his curls, is exploited and hast to  to flee after he stood  up to himself.