Blackboards 2000 ( 6.6)

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 offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?

The Day I Became a Woman 2000 ( 6.1)

A girl reaches the age of nine and is supposed to act as a grown woman according to her family. A girl participates in a bike race against the will of her husband. An elderly woman decides she wants to buy all the things she always wanted but could never get.

At Five in the Afternoon 2003 ( 6.4)

Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how to feed her baby. She cannot provide milk for her baby as her own hunger is preventing her from lactating. Nogreh, however, aspires toward a life in a western styled democracy. Although the Taliban are no longer in power in Afghanistan, traditional forces are still active in the country. Nogreh often displays signs of rebellion, such as wearing a pair of white pumps instead of the traditional slipper beneath her burqa. But mostly, Nogreh wants to be educated. Without her father's knowledge, Nogreh is attending a secular girls school. Ultimately, she wants to become President of Afghanistan. With the help of a Pakistani refugee who likes her as a woman, Nogreh tries to understand exactly what forces led to current world leaders being elected, those forces which she wants to emulate.

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Isolated 2018 ( 10)

An unemployed father decides to take a risk to support his family. Living in an impoverished and remote Kurdish border town, a father can no longer bear economic difficulties, its impact on his family, and their livelihoods. As a last resort, he decides to take a risk to support them.

Civil Defense Siren N/A

...and God created heaven and hell, good and evil, angels and daemons... but he also started all these miseries. Does truly the universe have a wise and spiritually pure creator?!

Douch 2018

Ten-year-old Gholamreza, who lives in a village in northern Iran, needs a bicycle to win a bicycle race and pay off his father's debt. To get money for the new bicycle, he notices a prize for teaching an illiterate person how to read and write, but there aren't any illiterate people in the village except a 90-year-old bad tempered woman who does not want to learn anything.

Alwadae Lillpite 2024

Ali has become an important part of the sleepy little village Lillpite. His car workshop is a second living room for the residents. But what happens when Ali's application for permanent residence gets rejected, and he decides to leave?

Seagull of Arabia N/A

This documentary tells the story of Chancellor Youssef Yassin, a figure who dedicated his life to resisting colonial powers culturally, militarily, and politically in service of the Arab cause. The life story of Chancellor Youssef Yassin, full of events and stages, in the Seagull of Arabia documentary.