Movies and TvShows featuring "iranian-woman" theme.
Survivors' firsthand accounts and actual footage fuel this emotional docuseries about the deadly 2015 earthquake that shook Nepal.
ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction is a comedy-horror movie that takes place in a small coastal town. The story follows a group of diverse individuals who must come together to fight against a zombie invasion. With elements of social satire, the movie explores themes of prejudice, religion, and survival. It combines humor and horror to create an entertaining and thought-provoking film.
Rhino Season tells the story of a woman named Mina who is struggling to rebuild her life after being imprisoned for many years due to political persecution. Set in Tehran, Iran, the film explores themes of love, exile, and the resilience of the human spirit. As Mina navigates through the challenges of her new life, she must confront her past traumas and find a way to move forward.
Shirin is an experimental film that takes place in a movie theater, focusing on the reactions and emotions of an Iranian woman as she watches a film. Through her facial expressions and non-verbal cues, the audience gets a glimpse into her thoughts and experiences.
Elham is a young, divorced Iranian woman. Seeking to find herself after a near-fatal beating by her husband, she finds solace and salvation in the water and soon makes her mark as a formidable endurance swimmer. In the fight of her life, Elham faces political, religious, and personal obstacles in search of her goal: the Guinness World Record for swimming the longest distance with hands bound.
A veiled 16-year-old Iranian girl is terrified to take her red suitcase through the airport. She escapes an arranged marriage and embarks on a journey of fear and anxiety. The movie sheds light on the issue of underage marriages and explores the emotions experienced by girls in such situations. The story follows the girl's plan to run away, her hiding on a bus, and the constant fear of being discovered by her husband. The film captures the viewer's attention with its interesting and distinctive story, directing, and shots.
Mania Akbari’s From Tehran to London (2012), has a Russian-doll structure. It begins with Akbari shooting her latest film entitled Women Do Not Have Breasts about a couple, the young poet and writer Ava and her upper-class older husband Ashkan, who live in a large, beautiful – yet isolated – house in the hilly outskirts of the city. Household workers Maryam and Rahim attend to their needs. But despite their comfortable lives, Ava is increasingly dissatisfied and estranged in her relationship with Ashkan. What seems to have been an exciting relationship in the past is now little more than a series of mutual reproaches, as Ashkan incessantly tries to change Ava into someone she isn’t – a dutiful wife.
The subject of the film is male-female relationships. Composed of 7 vignettes, "20 Fingers" features Mania Akbari and Bijan Daneshmand as a contemporary Iranian couple. The film is an intense, bumpy series of conversations and sometimes quarrels reflecting the problems facing Iranian men and women and the struggle between modernism and tradition, liberalism and conservatism.
Border Café tells the story of an Iranian woman who is determined to keep her cafe running near the border despite the challenges she faces. She struggles with poverty, sexism, and the difficulties of being an independent woman in a conservative society. With the help of her Greek brother-in-law, she works hard to provide for her family and create a better future for herself.
An epistolary feature film: a cinematic discourse between a British director Mark Cousins, and an Iranian actress and director Mania Akbari which extends the concept of "essay film" with startling confrontations in the arenas of cultural issues, gender politics and differing artistic sensibilities. A unique journey into the minds of two exceptional filmmakers which becomes a love affair on film.
An old man who works for a landlord brings a young worker to paint the house for him. The old landlord is alcoholic and has a young wife and together they manage a ranch. Little by little ...
Mania Akbari collaborates with British sculptor Douglas White to coin a tender fusion of langauge, where a meeting of cinema and sculpture investigates the processes of physical and psychological destruction and renewal. Begun a matter of weeks after first meeting, the film charts a deepening artistic and personal relationship exploring the nature of skin, family, death, water, desire and, throughout, a powerful will to form. Akbari looks into the connection between her body and the political history of Iran, investigating the relationship between her own physical traumas and the collective political memory of her birthplace. As she undergoes surgeries on a body decimated by cancer, remembrance and reconstruction provide a framework for investigating how bodies are traumatised, censored and politicized, and yet ultimately remain a site of possibility.
The Badger is the story of a 40-year-old woman called Soodeh Sharifzadegan who faces a strange incident, right before her second marriage.
An American professional basketball player accepts an offer to play for an Iranian basketball team. He encounters cultural differences, makes friends, and falls in love with an Iranian woman. The film highlights his challenges and experiences in a new environment.
On her way home one night, a young working girl who lives alone with her mother is asked to go sleep at her friend's house. She wanders all night in Teheran and meets three men who have different stories.
In a society where all social customs are based on the beauty of a woman, her challenge is to find self confidence and inner beauty despite having lost her physical beauty.
In an Iranian juvenile detention center, a group of adolescent girls serve their sentence for the grave crime of murdering their father, their husband or another male family member.
Ahmed Baumarot (Mansour Sepehrnia) is an employee behind the scenes, but the head of the company, Mr. Shahin, suspects he is paying more attention to his deputy (Gholamreza Sorkob) and other employees.
A leaked video and the disappearance of an actress. A filmmaker looks for the truth in this tense suspenseful Iranian film by 28-year-old Mahdi Asghari Azghadi, a debut director.
Honor Diaries is a powerful documentary that explores the hardships and human rights violations experienced by women in various cultures. It sheds light on important issues such as violence against women, arranged marriages, honor killings, female genital mutilation, and the struggle for women's rights.