Movies: Behnaz Jafari

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and actor Behnaz Jafari travel to a tiny village after receiving a plea for help from a girl whose family has forbidden her from studying acting. Amusing encounters abound, but they soon discover that the local hospitality is r...

Maryam accidentally killed her husband Nasser and is sentenced to death. The only person who can save her is Mona, Nasser's daughter. All Mona has to do is appear on a TV show and forgive Maryam. But forgiveness proves difficult when they are forced ...

A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s lic...

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offer...

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the te...

Khosro, a pop singer, lives a hectic life with his wife Tina and their son Moez. His life is further complicated when he begins a love affair with a female fan. A terrible event ensues obliging the lovers to each recount their side of the story in pu...

Tomorrow is Samira's wedding ceremony and Bahar and Parisa are shopping excitedly. But at night somebody calls and tells them that the bride is dead and the wedding has been called off. They are both shocked and they cannot believe what they have hea...

A story about a poor girl working in a 5 star hotel in tehran and the workers of the hotel when somthing priceless will stolen......

Revenge may have irreversible consequences....

An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to ...

Lantouri is the name of a gang that mugs people in broad daylight on the streets of Tehran and breaks into homes in the city’s rich northern district. The gang also kidnaps children from families who have become wealthy through corruption and embezzl...

A complex and sometimes combative exchange at an Iranian broadcaster over a certain Hollywood blockbuster disguises deeper ruptures, in Farnoosh Samadi’s wry and subtly provocative drama....

Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, think...

Mitra is a famous lawyer who one day a crime happens in his office. Therefore, he is forced to start an investigation about one of his clients to defend himself, and in this way he faces problems that even endanger his job....

24 hours in Tehran. A traffic cop is interested in an actress, two old sourpusses terrorise the drug control lab, not everything a taxi driver says is the truth and a building worker seems to be in love....

Miners say that the more you look for diamonds, the less you find them. According to them, it is the diamond that finds its man. He is the one who decides whose hand falls on whose finger...

Part 2 of the trilogy concerning Persian poet Farough Farrokhz. This film examines her controversial, sometimes erotic, poetry. Contemporary Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad became a legend in her own time for her innovative and controversial writing...

A thief comes out of prison and begins searching for his sister. Along the way, he meets another thief, a girl, they work together to gather money, but things don't go well....

Ali Mashreghi is a writer whose wife has been murdered after the night of his bitter fight with his wife. He is arrested and there is only one woman who can help him in the court of law....

Shahrbanoo is the mother of three children who has been sentenced to life in prison for drug trafficking. After 11 years in prison, she is released from prison for a few days to attend her son's wedding. However, this temporary release confronts him ...