Samira Makhmalbaf
Samira Makhmalbaf (born February 15, 1980) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and script writer. She is the daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film director and writer. She is considered to be one of the most influential directors as part of the Iranian New Wave.
Asbe du-pa
A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.
Panj é asr
Nogreh is a young Afghan woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how to feed her baby. She cannot provide milk for her baby as her own hunger is preventing her from lactating.
11'09''01 - September 11
11 directors show their view on the terrorist attacks on the world trade center in New York.
Takhté siah
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son.
Sib
After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.