Susan Taslimi
Susan Taslimi (Persian: سوسن تسلیمی, born 7 February 1950) is an Iranian actress, film director, theatre director, and screenwriter. She emigrated to Sweden in 1987. Taslimi is the first non-European to play the lead role on a national theater stage in Sweden.
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Svart krabba
In a post-apocalyptic world, six soldiers on a covert mission must transport a mysterious package across a frozen archipelago.
Först när givaren är död
In the middle of the Medieval fair in Visby the house of a 70-year-old woman is set on fire, and she is presumed dead.
Dödsängeln
A choir of young women give a guest performance in a country church outside Ystad. But when an 18-year-old member of the choir disappears, Wallander is brought in to investigate.
Bashu, gharibeye koochak
An Iranian boy is lost after fleeing home for his life; his family has been killed during the Iran-Iraq war. He's saved and trained by a middle-aged woman.
Madian
Noted Iranian actress Susan Taslimi plays an impoverished single mother who agees to marry off her 13-year-old daughter to a middle-aged man in return for a mare, which will help her earn an income and provide for her younger children.
Marg Yazdgerd
Bahram Beyzai's poetic imagining of the circumstances that led to the death of Yazdgerd III, the last of the Sassanid kings of Iran. His death in 651, during the Arab invasions that brought Islam to this Zoroastrian realm, was mysterious: his corpse was discovered in a mill, but the cause of his death—and the whereabouts of his remains—are unknown.
Tcherike-ye Tara
Tara, a young beautiful widow, returns with her two children from the country to her village. On her way home, she finds out that her grandfather has passed away. She distributes his belongings among her neighbours. But there remains an old sword that no one will accept. One day on the road, she meets an ancient warrior.