The father of other

Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house ...

Runtime

2h 6m

Director

Vadim Perelman

Cast

Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard

A 15-year-old Somalian boy meets a 40-year-old Iranian man in a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them, they decide to take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer.

Runtime

2h 8m

Director

Geir Hansteen Jörgensen

Cast

Mike Almayehu, Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Lia Boysen

Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?

Runtime

1h 36m

Director

Majid Majidi

Cast

Parviz Parastouei, Roya Taymourian, Afarin Obeisi

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.

Runtime

1h 28m

Director

Bahman Ghobadi

Cast

Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Caner Cindoruk

A mother's courage, hardship, and love, in times of war. In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, Gilane escorts her pregnant daughter, Maygol, from the relative calm of their village, Espili, into war-torn Tehran to search for Maygol's husband, Rahman. The journey is arduous and what they find when they reach the capital is dismaying and fr...

Runtime

1h 24m

Director

Mohsen Abdolvahab, Rakhshan Banietemad

Cast

Madjid Bahrami, Shahrokh Foroutanian, Baran Kosari