Vida is a young Iranian lifeguard. Popular on her team, she is determined to fight inorder to be the one to participate in an international competition in Australia. However,when Sareh who is as fast and talented as her, joins the team, Vida will have to face anunexpected situation. Nominated for the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the **Sundance Film Festival**.

It's 3 AM. A boy and a girl are wandering in the city. They are looking for a hospital to cure the girl, but it is much harder than they thought. Selected at Cannes Palme d'or Competition and Sundance Film Festival.

Director Shahram Mokri’s first feature is a delightfully offbeat B&W comedy about the mysterious workings of Fate, played out in deadpan Jim Jarmusch-like vignettes. Two blind jewel thieves, a young man who can’t succeed at killing himself, a love-struck police officer and two female morgue attendants find their lives interconnected when an unusual fish is set free and a charmed ring is moved. Watch for sly references to film noir classics including...

In this heartwarming adventure, and Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, a poor South Tehran brother and sister dream up a plan to stay out of trouble. After one of them loses their pair of school shoes, they decide to keep it a secret from their parents. But if they’re going to successfully cover their tracks, Ali and Zahra must carefully watch their step on what rapidly turns into a heartwarming adventure.

Reza, having distanced himself from the urban quagmire, leads a simple life along with his wife and young son, in a remote village in Northern Iran. He spends his days working on his goldfish farm. Nearby, a private company with close links to the government, has taken control of nearly every aspect of regional life. Its shareholders, accumulating wealth, power and economic influence, have been pushing local farmers to sell off their farms, to the...

On a cold winter night in modern Tehran, a couple of young lovers run into a serious problem, and they have just a few hours to come up with a solution. They go from hospital to hospital in search for help, but none of the hospitals will admit the young woman to provide her with the medical attention she desperately requires. While they try to find a way to solve the problem, they have to hide what is happening from their parents. Moreover, their...

Director Shahram Mokri’s third and most formally challenging film continues the time-bending, single-shot experimentation of FISH & CAT (and later, CARELESS CRIME) in a science-fiction/detective/vampire story, with nods to stylized 1980s New Wave-era films like LIQUID SKY. Sometime in the future, teams of tattooed athletes play a vaguely defined sport in an ominous, labyrinthine stadium where a murder has taken place. When police try to reconstruct...

A group of attractive young Iranian kite-flying enthusiasts gather at a dismal lake, near a restaurant where two sinister characters are serving up grisly fare.

Uganda, March 2000. At the request of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development, Abbas Kiarostami and his assistant Seilollah Samadian arrive in Kampala. For ten days, their DV cameras capture and caress the faces of thousand children, all orphans, whose parents have died of AIDS. It records tears and laughter, music and silence, life and death. It attests to Africa’s sunny resilience to so much suffering and disease.

TEN sequences in the emotional lives of six women and the challenges that they face at one particular moment in those lives, that could just as easily be ten sequences in the emotional life of the one same woman…