Movies: Morteza Tavakoli

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibit...

I am not free. There is a structure in my mind that imprisons me. This structure is the world. I obey certain laws. I could be punished. I cannot act upon my sexual desires. I cannot find the resources I need to create my art. I cannot stop war. I ca...

The Salzburg police duo Heilmayr and Merana is looking for the murderer of a noble call girl....

I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values....

Abdul Rahman, an African prince who was sold into slavery, spent four decades in servitude before an amazing coincidence took him to the White House to meet President John Quincy Adams, where he was granted his freedom. Mos Def narrates this PBS docu...

20-year-old Rocco (Morteza Tavakoli) wants to strike out on his own and break out of his family’s rigid life. Through the friendship of Max (Ronald Rudoll) and Leila (Anna Franziska Srna), who are working on opening a bar, Roccco’s dream of a “normal...

Out of the underground archives and the emblematic figures of these avant-garde movements, featuring Steve Ben Israel of the Living Theater, the puppet creator Peter Schumann, the photographer Alain Dister, the American black dramatist Amiri Baraka a...