Fahimeh Rahimnia

In a small religious town in Iran, Ali After a fight with his father, escapes to the desert where he hears music for the first time in his life: a shepherd who plays Ney. From that moment his life changes forever.

In an Iran weighed down by a struggling economy, two middle-aged brothers live with their bullying father. A man prone to rages and driven by chauvinism, the father’s abusiveness found his second wife leaving him. Now he picks on his eldest son, while the younger sibling fantasises about ways to kill his father. When the man rents out the flat above to a young woman, with intentions of marrying her, the woman’s attraction to the older son slowly pushes this profoundly damaged family to breaking point.

Khanoom is an episodic movie focusing on three women from three different social classes who has to suffer for the sake of their beloved men.

Zamane and Saeid are neighbors. Despite their own arrangements to get married, their families are against this marriage. Zamane’s family’s reason for this opposition, especially her father’s, is the fact that Saeid is a disabled veteran who is on the wheelchair. Zamane, who’s had enough of her family’s strict behavior, offers Saeid to run away with her and then get married, but he doesn’t accept that.

Oppression is the first barrier between a woman and her personal desires and meanwhile, "the voice" speaks of suppression. The voice of boredom by which the wetness of their eyes and sleeves can be perceived.

The reflection of every star in the sea becomes a blue and holy pomegranate. an old man catches them from the sea and bring them to the village by the sea. The people who gathered in village to Separate the pomegranate seeds from inside the pomegranate, each have a different story in their lives.Their destiny is linked to these pomegranates and each other. The different stories of the characters have been placed next to each other like a pomegranate seeds, and have made the main atmosphere.