Movies: Ali Derakhshande

Hours before her scheduled marriage, young bride-to-be Shirin murders a man. The crime is completely unexpected and goes against everything we know of her. We learn that Shirin has had two unsuccessful marriage attempts, and is deeply psychologically...

Set in the pastoral mountains of northern Iran, eight-year-old Sahand has been rendered mute by the loss of his mother during the war. He is taken care of by his older sister as he struggles to process his trauma....

Zoreh is a woman in her 60s, who lives in a big apartment building with her grown-up divorced daughter and elderly mother, in a somewhat tense relationship. Zoreh’s son has gone missing. She runs a small beauty parlour at home and everything is seemi...

60 year-old Zohreh's son is missing. Her husband has left her and she lives with her elderly, foul-mouthed mother and recently widowed and short-tempered daughter in the Ekbatan Housing Project. She has a beauty salon in her apartment and life I good...