The Last Days of Winter

The Passion of Joan of Arc

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'

1928

Head Wind

An investigation of government censorship in Iran.

2008

Roots In The Wind

In 1979, after the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan, millions of Afghans were forced to leave their homeland to save their lives, and in the meantime

Music of Yarsan: A Living Tradition

The educational documentary film Music of Yarsan: A Living Tradition is an investigation into the variety of muscial practices in the life of the Kurd

2015

Sufi, Saint & Swinger

The tragic story of an American music virtuoso who found in 1970s Iran the love and acceptance he never received back home, and who was punished by hi

2020

Iran: The Hundred Year War

What kind of world power is Iran becoming, and how will Western countries deal with it?

2009

Imaginary Painting

A documentary about the life and works of the maestros of Imaginary Painting School who made Iranian popular old style Khialisazi or Coffee-House Pain

1997

Nila's Dream in the Garden of Eden

Leyla and her six-year-old daughter Nila live in the holy city of Mashhad in Iran. Nila is the result of a temporary marriage, which allows a man to m

2024

The Mongols

A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignme

1973

Sepidar

This piece is inspired by the memoirs of Sepideh Gholian. A prisoner of conscience at 26 years old in Bushehr prison, Iran.

2022

Shoot Me

The Iranian filmmaker Narges Kalhor, daughter of a former advisor of Ahmadinejad's, has been living in exile in Germany for four years. When she hears

2013

Rug

In this guided tour of a unique Persian carpet, a close-up of the delicate "spine" of a tree branches out into the discovery of a fantastical world.

2006

Canine Soldiers: The Militarization of Love

A documentary exploring the experience of going to war with a Military Working Dog, trained to find bombs before they can kill or maim soldiers, often

2016

The Void Inside

After getting caught in a fight, Vahid needs to sell one of his kidneys to avoid a prison sentence of many years. While waiting for the liberating cal

2020

Holy Bread

A documentary on the precarious lives of the koolbari, who carry goods on foot across the mountainous borders from Iran's northwestern Kurdish region.

2022

Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia

Bitter Rivals illuminates the essential history - and profound ripple effect - of Iran and Saudi Arabia's power struggle. It draws on scores of interv

2018

Green Days

A playwright Iran tries to confront a creative crisis while political clashes erupt during her country's 2009 election.

2009

American Coup

AMERICAN COUP tells the story of the first coup ever carried out by the CIA - Iran, 1953. Explores the blowback from this seminal event, as well as th

2010

Martyrs of the Inquisition

Martyrs of the Inquisition

1905

Showdown With Iran

As the United States and Iran are locked in a battle for power and influence across the Middle East—with the fear of an Iranian nuclear weapon looming

2007