Behzad Dorani

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.

On a very ordinary day, four ordinary people decide to set fire to a cinema packed with people.

A poetic love story about young generations' hope for a freer future, entrenched inequalities, and refugee movements that threaten their lives in contemporary Iran.

Iman and his younger brother, Payar, live with their father. Thanks to his connections with the city's youth, he starts a business to make some quick profit. A new beginning turns into a twisted cycle affecting the family's destiny.