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The Documentary and Experimental Film Center

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Nahid poster
Movie

A young divorcee living with her son in a small northern city of Iran, wants to marry the man she has fallen in love with. According to the current rules, the father has the custody of children; however, her ex-husband has granted her that right on the condition that she doesn’t remarry. Struggling to keep both of her beloved ones, she has to think about the third option: Temporary Marriage (Sighe). However, this will get her into a predicament, as despite its being legal, Sighe is not well-received by the society at all. Would temporary marriage be a good solution for her?

Nahid

Nov 2015

Blue Tooth poster
Movie

Hadith is a member of the high school swimming team and has come to Tehran to attend a national tournament. The night at the dormitory, the team leader called on the disciplinary committee, and it turns out that the hadith movie has been broadcast through Bluetooth when changing clothes in a dressing room, something that will change the fate of this girl forever.

Blue Tooth

Jul 2007

New Wave poster
Movie

A Documentary about the New Wave movement in Iranian cinema.

New Wave

Nov 2016

There Are Things You Don't Know poster
Movie

The film tells the story of a reclusive taxi driver in Tehran in the days leading up to an earthquake. He has chosen to distance himself from society and to be passive so as not to be hurt. Finally one of his passengers gives him enough motivation to act and bring about a change in his life.

There Are Things You Don't Know

Jul 2010

The Father poster
Movie

Mehrollah is a 14-year-old boy who is forced to find a job to support his family after his father dies. He travels to the southern parts of Iran, looking for work. Upon his return to his hometown, he notices certain changes in his family.

The Father

Feb 1999

Tehran Has No More Pomegrenates! poster
Movie

This is the story of Tehran from the Qajar time (middle of 19th century) to today. Tehran has become a metropolis from a small village, now a developed city with many social problems.

Tehran Has No More Pomegrenates!

Jan 2007

Son of Man poster
Movie

In Iran, gender-affirming surgery is legal, though it carries with it great stigma, and is usually performed so that a gay couple may lead a heteronormal life. In this one-of-a-kind film, shot in secret in Iran, a father and husband finds his fragile world endangered when a man from his past appears claiming to be his daughter's true father. He never knew his wife was pregnant when she sought a divorce, and now she's nowhere to be seen.

Son of Man

Aug 2022

Snow poster
Movie

The daily hardships of a war-scarred Bosnian village, where all that remains are widows and orphans, are painstakingly documented in this first feature from director Aida Begic. Snow offers insight about the psychological aftereffects of the 1992-95 civil war from a distinctively female point of view without showing any of the brutality or carnage.

Snow

Oct 2008

Dead End poster
Movie

Documentary about Babak Bayat (Persian: بابک بیات)(13 June 1946 – 26 November 2006). Babak Bayat was an Iranian songwriter and film score composer. He was repeatedly nominated for the Crystal Simorgh award in the field of the soundtrack at the Fajr Film Festival and received this award twice in 1991 and 1997.

Dead End

Aug 2008

Rainy Seasons poster
Movie

Sina, a sixteen years old teenager from today's Tehranian middle class, experiences a new life on the verge of his parents' divorce. Added to his very real sense of having been abandoned is the threat of a local thug who believes that Sina owes him a considerable sum of money. Things become even more complicated when Sina, taking advantage of his parents' constant absence, allows an older girl, Nahid, to temporarily move in with him. Sina finds himself with the prospect of making choices that threaten his body and soul.

Rainy Seasons

Jan 2010

A Song For Luba poster
Movie

Luba is a young Russian woman who, after coming to Iran which coincides with the Iran-Iraq war, her Iranian husband went to the front and she has not heard from her husband for three years.

A Song For Luba

Jun 2009

Lay My Bed in the Room poster
Movie

The eldest son of the family is dead. After the funeral ceremony, the guests have left the house and the family members are talking to each other.

Lay My Bed in the Room

Apr 2015

Mostashregh poster
Movie

Mostashregh

Nov 2019

The Prime Minister poster
Movie

Political and Social Activities of Ahmad Qavam al-Saltanah, reflecting on his fourth term as Minister.

The Prime Minister

Jan 2016

Migrants poster
Movie

Fifteen migrants begin their journeys. This is what migration is. You leave your place of birth, but you are, as if, still there. You go somewhere else, and you feel yourself physically somewhere else but have left behind your authentic self.

Migrants

Nov 2021

Glimmer poster
Movie

An old optician is going to close his optometry shop due to his weak eyesight. But there is still a client who has not referred to receive her spectacles yet.

Glimmer

Jun 2011

Sohrab, A Journey poster
Movie

A different film about Sohrab Shahidsaless, the late Iranian filmmaker. In this lengthy documentary, video images and unseen shots from Sohrab Shahid Salate have been used.

Sohrab, A Journey

Jun 2016

The Wind that Shakes the Sugar Canes poster
Movie

Younes’s father is arrested when the sugar factory boss accuses him of setting fire to the fields. When 11-year-old Younes, preparing himself for a football trial, finds out that at the night of the accident, his father, as a leading figure in the strikes and the protests, was busy at a meeting with the other workers, talking about their demands, he tries to bring the witnesses to the court. It is the starting point of his journey: a journey of forgetting his love for football and taking the pressure off his family….

The Wind that Shakes the Sugar Canes

Dec 2022

Plane Grove poster
Movie

Valiasr Street, seventeen kilometers long, connects the south of Tehran to the north and the Alborz mountain range. When this street was built, the parties decorated it with more than 60,000 plane saplings. But today, only about eight thousand plane trees are standing on this street.

Plane Grove

Jan 2014

35 Meters Below Sea Level poster
Movie

A film about a muslim guy and his sex drive.

35 Meters Below Sea Level

Apr 2006

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