Roya Taymourian – MRQE

Santoori

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A heroin-addicted musician finds his growing dependence on drugs taking a sizable toll on both his career and his marriage in Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui incisive addiction drama. Ali (Bahram Radan) plays a traditional stringed instrument called the santoor. A liberal young musician married to the beautiful Hanieh (Golshifteh Farahani), Ali suffers from a crippling dependency on heroin. Could it be that his country’s current cultural repression is somehow connected to the rampant drug addiction that has claimed the lives of so many dejected citizens?

Cafe Setareh

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Filmmaker Saman Moghadam details the struggles of three women living in an antiquated district of Tehran in this emotionally resonant drama. Fabria’s husband has been morally corrupted, and now it’s up to her to take charge of the small café that proves the only source of income to the couple. Saloomeh is a beautiful young woman who dreams of marrying Ebi, but how will the couple survive on the salary of a simple mechanic? Lastly, middle aged Moluk has fallen for a much younger man, and her heart breaks when she discovers that her love is unrequited.

Beed-e majnoon

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?

Gharche sammi

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Doman Ghaemi, a former commander in the Iran-Iraq war, is now the director of a construction company. Sometimes he remembers some illusory memories from war, during which the values of those years come to his mind. These values are in conflict with his current society and situation. Soleyman, his friend of war years, who now stays in a mental hospital, makes an emphasis on his values by entering the life of Doman again. At the meantime, Doman happens to meet a girl called Bita …

Bé omid é didar

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Story of a young lawyer in Tehran in search of a visa to leave the country, which is what Mohammad Rasoulof did during the winter of 2010/11.

Zendan-e zanan

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Spanning 18 years in an Iranian women’s prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young midwife, Mitra, who is serving her sentence for killing her mother’s abusive husband. In the early years, Mitra is repeatedly punished as the warden tries to break her. This includes punishment for delivering a baby in the prison cell while all of the prison staff has taken shelter during an Iraqi bombing. The warden’s attitude starts to change after 8 years, when Mitra tries to protect a new inmate from rape at the hands of her older cellmates. When the baby comes back in 1991 as a 17 year old delinquent, Sepideh, the warden respects Mitra enough to protect the girl.