Popular from Iran
Hit the Road
(جاده خاکی)
A family bonds on a road trip through northwestern Iran.
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- Iran • 2022
- Director Panah Panahi
- Cast Hassan Madjooni, Pantea Panahiha, Rayan Sarlak, Amin Simiar, Masoud Tosifyan
- Genre Drama
- Available on Showtime, Hoopla, fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, Showtime Roku Premium Channel, Showtime Apple TV Channel, Paramount+ with Showtime, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
Taxi
(تاکسی)
An exiled filmmaker posing as a cab driver captures incisive portraits of diverse passengers in present-day Tehran.
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- Iran • 2015
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Jafar Panahi
- Genre Comedy, Documentary
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
The Salesman
(فروشنده)
Emad and Rana move into a new flat, but an incident with the previous tenant dramatically changes their life.
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- Iran, France • 2016
- Director Asghar Farhadi
- Cast Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi, Mina Sadati, Mehdi Koushki, Farid Sajjadi Hosseini
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Freevee
Just 6.5
(متری شش و نیم)
Who is trafficking all these drugs for just 6.5 addicts?
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- Iran • 2019
- Director Saeed Roustaee
- Cast Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzade, Parinaz Izadyar, Farhad Aslani, Houman Kiai, Maziar Seyedi
- Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Google Play Movies, Apple TV
Tehran Taboo
Four young people from Tehran, Iran are forced to break the taboos of a restrictive Islamic society.
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- Germany, Austria • 2017
- Director Ali Soozandeh
- Cast Arash Marandi, Alireza Bayram, Siir Eloglu, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, Klaus Ofczarek
- Genre Drama, Animation
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
A Separation
(جدایی نادر از سیمین)
Simin wants to leave Iran to give her daughter, Termeh, a different kind of life outside the country. But Nader, Termeh’s father, refuses to leave his ailing father behind.
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- Iran, France • 2011
- Director Asghar Farhadi
- Cast Leila Hatami, Payman Maadi, Shahab Hosseini, Sareh Bayat, Sarina Farhadi, Babak Karimi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
New from Iran
Finding Farideh
(در جستجوی فریده)
An Iranian woman raised by a Dutch couple travels to Iran to try and find her biological parents.
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- Iran, Netherlands • 2018
- Director Kourosh Ataee, Azadeh Moussavi
- Cast Eline Farideh Koning
- Genre Documentary
- Available on True Story
First Case, Second Case
(قضیه شکل اول... شکل دوم.)
Two versions of a classroom discipline situation, evaluated by talking heads in terms of morality, rights, and responsibilities.
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- Iran • 1979
- Director Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast Mehdi Azadbakht, Mohammadreza Barati, Hedayat Matin Daftari, Nader Ebrahimi, Ehteram Boroumand, Ezzatolah Entezami
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Criterion Channel
Two Solutions for One Problem
(دو راه حل برای يک مسئله)
After one young schoolboy tears his friend’s notebook, two diverging outcomes – of conflict and of peace – are presented.
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- Iran • 1975
- Director Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Good, the Bad & the Corny
(خوب، بد، جلف)
Two inexperienced actors training for roles in a crime thriller are suddenly confronted with a real-life criminal situation.
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- Iran • 2017
- Director Peyman Ghasemkhani
- Cast Pejman Jamshidi, Hamid Farrokhnejad, Sam Derakhshani, Vishgah Asayesh
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Amazon Video
The Song of Sparrows
(آواز گنجشکها)
Karim motorbikes into the incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence thrill and challenge him.
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- Iran • 2008
- Director Majid Majidi
- Cast Mohammad Amir Naji, Hamid Aghazi, Kamran Dehghan, Maryam Akbari, Hamid Aghazi, Schabnam Akhlaghi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Tubi TV
Shahrzad
(شهرزاد)
Around the time of the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, an Iranian mafia boss disrupts a young couple’s plans for marriage.
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- Iran • 2015
- Creator Hassan Fathi
- Cast Tarane Alidousti, Shahab Hosseini, Mostafa Zamani, Parinaz Izadyar, Mehdi Soltani, Parviz Fallahipour
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video
Careless Crime
(جنایت بیدقت)
On an ordinary day, four ordinary people decide to set fire to a cinema packed with people.
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- Iran • 2021
- Director Shahram Mokri
- Cast Babak Karimi, Siavash Cheraghipour, Mohammad Sareban, Behzad Dorani, Elaheh Bakhshi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Vudu, YouTube, Tubi TV
Bassidji
To better understand their ideas, Mehran Tamadon engages with extremist supporters of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Basij.
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- Iran, France, Switzerland • 2009
- Director Mehran Tamadon
- Cast
- Genre
- Available on DocAlliance Films
Cypress Under Water
(سرو زیرآب)
To restore peace between families of different religions, Jahanbakhsh embarks on a long journey which will change many lives.
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- Iran • 2018
- Director Mohammad Ali Bashe Ahangar
- Cast Babak Hamidian, Masoud Rayegan, Reza Behboudi, Mina Sadati, Homayoun Ershadi
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Plex,
Nabat
(نبات)
The peaceful existence of a single father and his young daughter is disrupted when a strange woman unexpectedly enters their lives.
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- Iran • 2019
- Director Pegah Arzi
- Cast Shahab Hosseini, Nazanin Farahani, Setayesh Mahmoudi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video
Zalava
(زالاوا)
While investigating claims of a demon inhabiting a small village, a skeptical young sergeant crosses paths with an exorcist.
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- Iran • 2021
- Director Arsalan Amiri
- Cast Navid Pourfaraj, Pouria Rahimi Sam, Hoda Zeynolabedin, Fereydoun Hamedi, Shahoo Rostami, Baset Rezaei
- Genre Drama, Horror
- Available on Amazon Video
More Than Two Hours
(بیشتر از دو ساعت)
When a woman suffers complications after sex, she and her partner desperately seek out a hospital. But getting help proves difficult.
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- Iran • 2013
- Director Ali Asgari
- Cast Shahrzad Ghasemi, Taha Mohammadi, Roshanak Haghighattalab, Safoora Kazempour
- Genre Drama
- Available on FilmBox+
Disappearance
(ناپدید شدن)
Facing complications after their first time, a young couple has only a few hours to seek out medical attention.
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- Iran, Qatar • 2017
- Director Ali Asgari
- Cast Sadaf Asgari, Amirreza Ranjbaran, Nafiseh Zarei, Sahar Sotoodeh, Mohammad Heidari, Nazanin Ahmadi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kanopy
Orderly or Disorderly
(به ترتیب یا بدون ترتیب)
A sense of order is the necessary basis of any good social organization.
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- Iran • 1981
- Director Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Dancing in the Dust
(رقص در غبار)
Hiding from creditors in the desert, a man works with a snake hunter to make enough money to settle his debts.
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- Iran • 2003
- Director Asghar Farhadi
- Cast Faramarz Gharibian, Yousef Khodaparast, Baran Kosari, Jalal Sarhad Seraj
- Genre Drama
- Available on Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Telescope Recommends
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
A lonely vampire preys on the depraved residents of Bad City — but finds love in another tortured soul.
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- Iran, United States • 2014
- Director Ana Lily Amirpour
- Cast Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh, Mozhan Marnò, Dominic Rains, Rome Shadanloo
- Genre Horror, Romance, Western
- Available on Hoopla, Metrograph, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
The White Balloon
(بادکنک سفید)
Seven-year-old Razieh and her brother set out for the pet shop, after Razieh sets her heart on a goldfish in the shop window.
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- Iran • 1995
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kafili, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Anna Borkowska, Mohammad Shahani
- Genre Drama, Family
- Available on Criterion Channel
Life, and Nothing More...
(زندگی و دیگر هیچ)
A town rebuilds itself after the earthquake of Guilan.
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- Iran • 1992
- Director Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast Farhad Kheradmand, Buba Bayour, Hocine Rifahi, Ferhendeh Feydi, Mahrem Feydi, Bahrovz Aydini
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Crimson Gold
(طلای سرخ)
A delivery driver is a daily witness to Iran’s unjust distribution of wealth, eventually driving him to crime.
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- Iran • 2003
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Hossain Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Azita Rayeji, Shahram Vaziri, Ehsan Amani, Pourang Nakhael
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, OVID, Amazon Video, Kanopy
Ten
(ده)
Hear her speak.
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- Iran, France • 2002
- Director Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast Mania Akbari, Amin Maher, Kamran Adl, Roya Arabshahi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, Kanopy
Hit the Road
(جاده خاکی)
A family bonds on a road trip through northwestern Iran.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2022
- Director Panah Panahi
- Cast Hassan Madjooni, Pantea Panahiha, Rayan Sarlak, Amin Simiar, Masoud Tosifyan
- Genre Drama
- Available on Showtime, Hoopla, fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, Showtime Roku Premium Channel, Showtime Apple TV Channel, Paramount+ with Showtime, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
The Salesman
(فروشنده)
Emad and Rana move into a new flat, but an incident with the previous tenant dramatically changes their life.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, France • 2016
- Director Asghar Farhadi
- Cast Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi, Mina Sadati, Mehdi Koushki, Farid Sajjadi Hosseini
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Freevee
3 Faces
(سه رخ)
Actress Behnaz Jafari and director Jafar Panahi take a road trip to rural Iran in hopes of saving a missing girl.
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- Iran • 2018
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedeh Erteghaei, Narges Del Aram
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
Just 6.5
(متری شش و نیم)
Who is trafficking all these drugs for just 6.5 addicts?
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- Iran • 2019
- Director Saeed Roustaee
- Cast Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzade, Parinaz Izadyar, Farhad Aslani, Houman Kiai, Maziar Seyedi
- Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Google Play Movies, Apple TV
A Time for Drunken Horses
(Zamani barayé masti asbha)
Courage and hardships of a family of Kurdish orphans forced to support themselves.
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- Iran • 2000
- Director Bahman Ghobadi
- Cast Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini, Madi Ekhtiar-dini, Kolsolum Ekhtiar-dini, Karim Ekhtiar-dini
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Kanopy, Eventive
A Separation
(جدایی نادر از سیمین)
Simin wants to leave Iran to give her daughter, Termeh, a different kind of life outside the country. But Nader, Termeh’s father, refuses to leave his ailing father behind.
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- Iran, France • 2011
- Director Asghar Farhadi
- Cast Leila Hatami, Payman Maadi, Shahab Hosseini, Sareh Bayat, Sarina Farhadi, Babak Karimi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Offside
(آفساید)
Since women are banned from attending men's sporting events in Iran, a group of female soccer fans disguise themselves as men to watch a match at Tehran's stadium.
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- Iran • 2006
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi, Golnaz Farmani, Mahnaz Zabihi
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
There Is No Evil
(شیطان وجود ندارد)
Shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran, this anthology film comprises four stories of men responsible for implementing capital punishment.
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- Germany, Iran, Czech Republic • 2020
- Director Mohammad Rasoulof
- Cast Mahtab Servati, Shaghayegh Shourian, Baran Rasoulof, Darya Moghbeli, Kaveh Ahangar
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
Through the Olive Trees
(زیر درختان زیتون)
Art doesn't always imitate life...even when you want it to.
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- Iran, France • 1994
- Director Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva, Hossein Rezai, Tahereh Ladanian, Hocine Redai
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Wind Will Carry Us
(باد ما را خواهد برد)
A city man has more to learn than he thinks from the townspeople where his dying relative lives.
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- Iran, France • 1999
- Director Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast Behzad Dorani, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi, Bahman Ghobadi, Shahpour Ghobadi, Reihan Heidari
- Genre Drama
- Available on Vudu, Amazon Video
From Outside Iran
Circumstance
Everything wasn't perfect before, but now Atafeh and Shireen face even more obstacles for the sake of their relationship.
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- France, United States, Iran • 2011
- Director Maryam Keshavarz
- Cast Nikohl Boosheri, Sarah Kazemy, Reza Sixo Safai, Soheil Parsa, Nasrin Pakkho, Sina Amedson
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
The Charmer
(Charmøren)
A young Iranian man desperately tries to seduce a woman who can secure his citizenship in Denmark.
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- Denmark, Sweden • 2018
- Director Milad Alami
- Cast Ardalan Esmaili, Soho Rezanejad, Lars Brygmann, Susan Taslimi, Stine Fischer Christensen, Amalie Lindegård
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Freevee, Kanopy, Plex,
Under the Shadow
After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor says the missile was cursed.
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- United Kingdom, Jordan, Qatar • 2016
- Director Babak Anvari
- Cast Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Ray Haratian, Hamid Djavadan, Bijan Daneshmand
- Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
- Available on Netflix, Hoopla, Netflix basic with Ads, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
Holy Spider
(عنکبوت مقدس)
A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate the serial killings of sex workers.
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- Denmark, Germany, Sweden • 2022
- Director Ali Abbasi
- Cast Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bajestani, Arash Ashtiani, Forouzan Jamshidnejad, Sina Parvaneh, Nima Akbarpour
- Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
Festival Favorites
3 Faces
(سه رخ)
Actress Behnaz Jafari and director Jafar Panahi take a road trip to rural Iran in hopes of saving a missing girl.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2018
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedeh Erteghaei, Narges Del Aram
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
There Is No Evil
(شیطان وجود ندارد)
Shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran, this anthology film comprises four stories of men responsible for implementing capital punishment.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Iran, Czech Republic • 2020
- Director Mohammad Rasoulof
- Cast Mahtab Servati, Shaghayegh Shourian, Baran Rasoulof, Darya Moghbeli, Kaveh Ahangar
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
Yalda
(یلدا)
Maryam accidentally kills her husband, and the only way to suspend her death sentence is if Nasser’s daughter forgives her on live television.
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- Iran, France, Germany • 2020
- Director Massoud Bakhshi
- Cast Sadaf Asgari, Behnaz Jafari, Babak Karimi, Fereshteh Sadr Orafaee, Forough Ghajebeglou
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, The Roku Channel, Kanopy
Taxi
(تاکسی)
An exiled filmmaker posing as a cab driver captures incisive portraits of diverse passengers in present-day Tehran.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2015
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Jafar Panahi
- Genre Comedy, Documentary
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
Sunless Shadows
The lives of Iranian girls imprisoned for murdering male family members.
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- Iran, Norway • 2022
- Director Mehrdad Oskouei
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Kanopy
No Date, No Signature
(بدون تاریخ بدون امضا)
One day at Kaveh he meets a corpse which is very familiar to him at work.
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- Iran • 2017
- Director Vahid Jalilvand
- Cast Amir Aghaee, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Hediyeh Tehrani, Zakiyeh Behbahani, Saeed Dakh, Alireza Ostadi
- Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on Hoopla, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Plex,
No Bears
(خرس نیست)
Lovers in two parallel love stories are thwarted by hidden obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2022
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Naser Hashemi, Bakhtiyar Panjeei, Vahid Mobaser, Jafar Panahi, Mina Kavani, Reza Heydari
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
A Hero
(قهرمان)
A good deed turns a man into a local celebrity, and also raises the suspicions of those closest to him.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Iran • 2021
- Director Asghar Farhadi
- Cast
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Starless Dreams
(رویاهای بدون ستاره)
This gentle, honest documentary takes the viewer within the walls of an Iranian center of correction and rehabilitation for women.
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- Iran • 2017
- Director Mehrdad Oskouei
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Kanopy