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

An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh, while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping the two clean the rug. This young woman belongs to the clan whose history is depicted in the design of the gabbeh, and the rug recounts the story of the courtship of the young woman by a stranger from the clan.

Valeh is an anti-Shah activist in pre-revolutionary Iran. He is constantly on the move, aware that he is being monitored by the Savak, the Shah's secret police. Eventually he is captured and tortured in prison. to extract inform- ation about his organisation. Meanwhile his comrades try to coerce him into dying for the cause. Valeh simply wants to live and be re-united with his wife and new baby. The director based the film on his own experiences as a leftist Islamic radical who became disillusioned with political activism and extremism of any kind.

The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit promoter who sells tickets to watch Nasim ride a bicycle continuously for a week. The promoter brings in sick and aged spectators, haranguing them to find hope in Nasim's strength. Aided by his son, who feeds him as he rides, Nasim grinds out the days and shivering nights. Local officials believe this may be a plot and Nasim may be a spy; they try to sabotage him as do those who bet he won't finish the week. Will desperation alone get Nasim the money? Is any triumph an illusion?

Episode one: The Happy child :
The fourth child of a poor couple, whom live in Halabiabad (a dispossessed place in Tehran), is born. In the maternity they tell them that if the child does not have good nutrition he would become paralyzed as well. The couple, who have 3 retarded and handicapped children- as a result of family marriage-know that because of poverty they cannot take care of their newborn child and they are worried that he would encounter the same fate as the other three children. They decide to make their child prosperous and they take him to a sanitarium for handicapped and retarded children but very soon the bitter future of the child comes into the mother’s mind. Then they decide to put the child in the way so that a good person takes the child with him and makes him prosperous but no one would take the child, but poor people and for making money. Eventually they leave the child by the swimming pool of an aristocratic house and leave, unaware of the fact that the child ends up in the sanitarium of handicapped and retarded children once again.
Episode two: Birth of an old woman :
A young boy, who has psychic signs in his behavior and words, nurses his old and handicapped mother, who does not even have the ability to talk, with patience and comprehension in an humble house. One day when he leaves the house towards the bank to get his monthly pension, he has an accident with a vehicle and the passersby steal his money. The young boy, who is worried about his mother’s conditions escapes from the hospital with a bandaged head, while the old woman has died in his absence. But in the house he still treats her mother as if she is alive.
Episode three: The peddler :
A group of smugglers who have unlawful activities under the cover of selling second hand clothes, take a peddler, who was their accomplice and witness of their crime, with themselves by force to kill him. The young peddler, who has arguments with the leader of the group over his life all the time, is thinking of escaping from this predicament, but all these escapes are only in his mind…

Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, his fiancée stands by him as together they challenge both the authority of family and state to lead their own lives.

伊朗导演瑞奇·麦瑞（代表作《奶牛》、《邮差》）1993年作品，改编自易卜生的《玩偶之家》，荣获1993年圣塞巴斯蒂安国际电影节最佳影片金贝壳奖、最佳女演员银贝壳奖，1993年法国南特三大洲电影节观众大奖，1993年伊朗Fajr电影节最佳剧本奖。影片讲述的是德黑兰一位年轻漂亮的家庭主妇在丈夫需要大比医疗经费的困难关头，其生活和心态的变化。

一个四岁的小男孩和一个婴儿单独留在家中，他们的母亲出外购物。年轻的穆罕默德对襁褓中的弟弟的哭声不予理睬，对在炉子上烧开的水壶也视而不见，因为更有趣的东西在吸引着他。当食物烧焦的气味，还有婴儿的哭声引起了忧心忡忡的邻居的注意时，穆罕默德却一时无法找到备用的钥匙让她进去，而他不得不亲自解决自己的难题。
这部难以确定类型的获奖影片由伊朗著名导演阿巴斯·基亚罗斯塔米亲自编写剧本，并参与剪辑。本片获得1987年柏林电影节最佳儿童影片水晶熊奖。

Rouhi, a young bride-to-be, is hired as a maid for an affluent family in Tehran. Upon arriving, she is suddenly thrust into an explosive domestic conflict. The wife is convinced her husband is having an affair and enlists Rouhi as a spy, to follow her husband, and confirm her suspicions. What Rouhi discovers, however, threatens not only their marriage but her own future.

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…

沙漠里一所小学拥有的唯一一个水缸被打破了，于是喝水成了迫在眉睫的问题。为了解决水缸问题，校长使用了许多办法。先是说服一个家长来修理，却因为修理材料要用到鸡蛋而搁浅，原因是家家都舍不得贡献出鸡蛋。终于把鸡蛋问题解决后，修好的水缸很快又出现了裂缝。无奈之下，校长把求助的目光投向了政府，等待政府伸出援手是一个漫长的过程，在缺乏水喝的时间里，有学生跑到远处的小河解渴，事故发生了，有个学生不小心掉到水里。在这种情况下，村里一个泼辣的妇女发起了募捐活动，终于凑够了买水缸的钱。大家把钱交给了妇女的侄子到城里买水缸，然而侄子拿了钱，迟迟未归。村里顿时谣言四起，怀疑有人贪污吞钱。终于，侄子把水缸背回来了，沙漠里又回复了平静。

伊朗儿童电影，讲述了一个普通家庭因父亲病故，由母亲做衣服、灵活养活两个孩子。哥哥时常抱怨父亲留下的自行车太破旧，导致迟到、被同学嘲笑……一直想换一两新车，刚好学校组织自行车比赛，一等奖就是一辆自行车，然而哥哥的“老爷车”真的能参加比赛获得第一名吗？种种困难下，哥哥差点放 弃比赛，在母亲的鼓励下：名次不重要，而是你是否尽了全力。哥哥勇敢的面对自己，骑着爸爸留下的旧自行车参加了比赛……

Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class society.

1987 film by Abbas Kiarostami

After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.

Complications arise in a director's attempt to film a scene in Life, and Nothing More... (1992).

Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.