Movies: Abolfazl Jalili

In a Tehran youth detention centre, detainees have the right to short furloughs, as long as their family provides sufficient bail to guarantee their return. The detention centre’s governor decides to help those without family to take advantage of thi...

At the Center for Adolescent Reform and Education, children who have no parents, or financial or property bail, have to swear to go to prison after vacation. One of the kids is not willing to swear. The next day the judge will give him a leave of l...

Acclaimed director Abolfazl Jalili offers a compassionate story of the young Afghan refugee who lives illegally in Iran. 14-year-old Kaim drifts to the Delbaran crossing on the Afghan-Iran border, where he finds work at a coffee shop frequented by tr...

Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers....

A young man named Shamsadin (Mehdi Moradi) receives the title of Hafez, bestowed only on those who memorize the Koran, and is sent to teach it to Nabat (Aso), the overseas-raised daughter of a religious leader. Although they never see each other's fa...

A young man finds love and his footing as an artist....

Ghesse Haye Kish was originally produced as a six-episode omnibus film with finances from investors on the Island of Kish in the Persian Gulf, which is a free zone belonging to Iran. All episodes take place on the abandoned island, which had profited...

Directed by Abolfazl Jalili...

A young Iranian boy makes friends with a young girl of the same age against a backdrop of the humdrum daily existence of rural workers....

During the Iran-Iraq war an orphan boy is taken in by an old man who lives in a cabin deep in the forest....

Farhad has nine years, but not even this information is sure since not even its father either drug addict, or its illiterate mother, they inscribed it when he was born. This lack of documents that, some for others, nobody solves and that its conditio...

This award-winning drama from Iran stars Hossein Saki as Shuan, a young man who supports himself as a cook and a security guard. Shuan's father (Nabi Jalilian) arrives one day with his daughter Balut (Zeinab Barbandi) in tow. Balut is crippled by par...

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Young Hamed, arrested for handing out political tracts banned by the Islamic Republic, finds himself in a place of great suffering, in which illiterate and penniless orphans wash floors and sell their own blood. When a disease breaks out in the priso...

A simple worker of the train station is arrested and send to Tehran because of his fighting against Shah's regime. His wife and son Milad come to Tehran to find him but this is only the beginning of their story....

Iranian movie...