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location_onTehran, IranpublicIR

Crab 2020 star_border 8
A shy, withdrawn boy has his heart on being in the school theater group, but the only role offered to him is that of a crab.

Am I a Wolf? 2019
Children perform a puppet theatre version of the fairytale of "The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats".

Uncle Pumble 2018
The story is about a doll named Amo Pumble who teaches children how to live in society by reading a magic book to children.

The Sparrow and the Boll 2007
For the sparrow, the boll is a small excuse for greater experience.

The Flower, the Bird and the Sun 2001
A sunflower growing in the shade of a wall has no sunlight. Bees and butterflies do not fly near it. Eventually, a bird advises the flower that it must grow above the wall in order to reach the sunlight. Animated using paint on glass.

The Key 2000 star_border 5.8
Calamity by four-year old might be another title for this tense, humorous drama. In the story, a four year old boy (Mohammed Aladpoush) is left at home with his baby brother while his mother goes out shopping. She has told him to give the baby his bottle while she is away. However, the boy has a different idea about what he should do, and consumes most of the bottle himself. The hungry baby's cries arouse the neighbors to try and get into the apartment, but it is locked, and the four-year old can't (or, more likely, won't) let them in. Despite a number of near-disasters, the enterprising young boy manages things just well enough (with the occasional help of shouted advice from frantic neighbors) so that serious calamities are avoided.

Taste of Cherry 1997 star_border 7.7
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

Children of Heaven 1997 star_border 7.9
Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.

Jewel Mountain 1996
In a bazaar, a poor young boy sees precious stones behind the shop window. The merchant invites him to enter, then takes him to the mountain, where he will have to face multiple dangers...

Tales of the Bazaar 1996
This film consists of three parts: The first part is called: Parrot and greengrocer, which is based on the poems of Rumi's Masnavi. The second part is called "Entering the world of dolls". This section is a combination of puppetry, animation, and live action, showing how to make a puppet movie in a musical, fantasy style. The third part: In this part called "Jewel Mountain", the story of an evil and greedy jeweler is shown.

First Graders 1996 star_border 6.2
A documentary film about a boys school in Iran. The film shows numerous, funny and moving interviews of many different young pupils of this school summoned by their superintendent for questions of discipline. The man is not severe, but clever and fair. He teaches loyalty, fellowship and righteousness to these boys. Besides these interviews, we see scenes of this school’s quotidian life.

The Rainbow Fish 1996
Iranian animation about a colourful fish, her admirers and her threats.

Orderly or Disorderly 1995 star_border 5.5
A sense of order is the necessary basis of any good social organisation. To illustrate this axiom, Kiarostami presents a series of paired scenes in this educational short film in which the same action is first shown in an organised way and then in an anarchic one. The film crew, however, finds it difficult to organise disorder.

Life, and Nothing More… 1992 star_border 7.6
After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.

Bashu, the Little Stranger 1991 star_border 7.6
During the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Scared, he sneaks into a truck that is leaving the area. He gets off the truck in the Northern part of the country, where everything from landscape to language is different. He meets Naii, who is trying to raise her two young children on a farm, while her husband is away. Despite cultural differences, and the fact that they do not speak the same language, Bashu and Naii slowly form a strong bond.

Close-Up 1990 star_border 7.9
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.

Homework 1989 star_border 7.4
Young male students at a local Iranian school are asked about their feelings on homework.

Where Is The Friend's House? 1987 star_border 7.9
An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

The Runner 1984 star_border 7
A young orphan named Amiro lives alone in an abandoned tanker in the Iranian port city of Abadan. He survives by shining shoes, selling water, and collecting deposit bottles. Although he sometimes finds himself at odds with both adults and competing older kids, he finds solace in dreams about departing cargo ships and airplanes—and by running.

Fellow Citizen 1983 star_border 5
On July 1983, lawmakers in Teheran decided to close off a section of the capital to regular traffic. Only drivers with special permits could cross the road blocks set up at various intersections leading to the restricted zone.

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