Movies: Ali Asgari

A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s lic...

Student Fereshteh has to hide her illegitimate baby for one night from her parents who turn up for a surprise visit. Her friend Atefeh helps her. They embark on an odyssey through Tehran during which they must carefully weigh up who their allies are....

During a dramatic night, two young lovers run from hospital to hospital seeking for an help for some complications after their first time. They'll have to confront with the indifference of some doctors and avoid them to call their parents....

A veiled 16 year old Iranian teenager is terrified to take her red suitcase from the carosel at the Luxembourg Airport, and go through the exit doors. Her fear grows with every second in the face of what awaits her beyond the gate....

A woman suffers complications after having sex. Her partner takes her to the hospital, but getting help proves to be difficult....

A woman accompanies her husband for an audition. The thing that happens there leads her for an important decision......

After the of premiere of his film Terrestrial Verses (co-directed by Alireza Khatami) in Cannes, Ali Asgari was banned from traveling by the Iranian authorities. But filmmakers like Asgari are not easily deterred from practicing their art, despite un...

On her way back from work, a woman witnesses something happening in the bus. She must decide if she will reveal it or not....

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer....

Two little brothers leave their village to find their mother in Istanbul without their father's knowledge....

The tale of two lonely misfits struggling to survive in the asphalt jungle....

A mother helps an elderly woman in a shopping mall in Tehran. A tragedy occurs, brutally confronting her with the impact of her actions....

Young Fatima holds a secret that could change her fate; she must place her trust in a doctor to make a tough decision between cultural tradition and medical ethics....

Soniya is going to be a first grader and she is happy for this however she faces this reality that to go to school she has to wear what she does not like....

A man and his two children are late for their flight. While they wait for the next flight something happens that changes his point of view about being a father....

We all live on the same planet, under one sun which nurtures and renews our unique and common hopes for the future. No matter how much we differ from each other in color, ethnicity and belief, we all share the same source of life, united in our desti...

The film is set around three protagonists. Two run a gas station on the outskirts of town, on a road that gets next to no traffic anymore, and so they get next to no customers. They live and work out of a decrepit van on site, its windows covered in ...

Narges and her friend have just a few hours to find someone to take care of her baby....

As Ahu attempts to overcome insomnia in her new apartment, her life becomes increasingly entangled with her troubled neighbour....

Leyla who is the daughter of a prominent family in a small town learns that she is pregnant and decides to tell this to her lover. Fatih is a teacher at the town school and,has a secret relationship with Leyla. When she meets him by Lake, she wakes u...