Movies: Kambuzia Partovi

Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran....

Muhammad: The Messenger of God is an 2015 Iranian film directed by Majid Majidi. The story revolves around the childhood of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The film marks Iran's biggest-budget production to date and is the first part of the planned tri...

On her way home one night, a young working girl who lives alone with her mother is asked to go sleep at her friend's house. She wanders all night in Teheran and meets three men who have different stories....

In a secluded house by the sea with the curtains shut, a screenwriter hides from the world with only his dog as company. The tranquility is abruptly broken one night by the arrival of a young woman fleeing from the authorities. Refusing to leave, she...

A young widow takes over her late husband’s truck stop café, keeping hidden in the kitchen so as not to cause a scandal in Iran’s conservative society. But her brother-in-law, out of familial obligation, wants to take her as a wife and also take over...

Taraneh is a model 15-year-old Iranian girl, studious and filial, who supports her ailing grandmother with a job at a photo shop and visits her father (who has been imprisoned for reasons never made clear in the film) bearing gifts of cigarettes and ...

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On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple's transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go off to f...

Elderly Dastaguir and his newly deaf 5-year-old grandson Yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk, as they make their way to the coal mine where Dastaguir's son Murad works. Dastaguir must tell Murad that the rest of their family were all killed in...

An Iranian truck driver ( Saeed Aghakhani ), a Yazidi family from Iraqi Kurdistan, would bring him to Tehran to find the father of the family, but incidentally, he accidentally crashes with the car of Bimō Nikki Karimi ........

An 18 years old girl comes to Tehran to take a picture with an 8 Billion Tomans Ferrari, but that will put her in some more troubles....

Unfinished Song stars Ali-Reza Anoushfar as Farhad, a young musicologist who returns to his birthplace, Iran's Khorasan province, to record and preserve the region's traditional folk songs. When he gets there, he discovers that of the region's once-r...

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Two kids meet at a film festival; an Afghan living in Iran, the other a Londoner. Initially they are at odds due to cultural differences, but when Danny the Brit stumbles upon some smugglers and is held captive, Ali goes to his rescue....

Javad, whose father is in prison, buys a goldfish for the Persian New Year but his mother orders him to release the fish. Javad doesn't want to lose his fish but finally agrees to do so. His father returns back home......

Golnar lives with her grandparents. One day she goes to the fountain to fetch water. The wind carries away her blue handkerchief. Golnar follows it into the forest and loses her way......

Set against the stunning landscape of rural Iran, Shirak is a symbolic rural drama centered on a young boy who lives in a small agricultural village that is being terrorized by wild boars. When his father is mauled to death by the boars during an att...

Aida, a 17 year old girl, begins to suspect his dad is cheating on her mother....

A sergeant who is on a mission to take a criminal to the prison is forced to spend a night with him in Mashhad....

Hasani who is an orphan is living with his little sister Goldouneh in an orphanage. One day a couple come there to adopt a child. They chose Goldouneh but Hasani who believes that their father is somewhere waiting for them is refusing......