Babak Karimi

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

Timo, the youngest of a Greek community of Funfair workers, will have to face the hardest winter together with his loved ones.

Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.

In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.

"Invasion To Interpretation" is the title of the performance lecturer that Nasim Ahmadpour performed in 2018 during the Fajr International Theater Festival in the off-stage section and in the conference hall. This video has been designed on the sidelines of the making and showing of the film "Invasion" Directed by Shahram Mokri.

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Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.

Music has been banned in Afghanistan, and now an orchestra conductor and his son, a tuba player, attempt to start over by emigrating along the Balkan route. During their flight, seemingly endless, they cross paths with an Italian woman, a doctor. This encounter will change the two refugees’ lives and that of the young woman as well.

An episodic film made of 4 separate stories which are happening in night till morning and shows the problems of the characters of these stories.

During a drive to a shoot, Babak persuades his assistant Amir to share the details from a script.

10 Days with Kiarostami

After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie. As he attempts to improve matters between mother and daughter Ahmad unwittingly lifts the lid on a long buried secret...

Called to Rome to stop an imminent terrorist bombing, a soldier desperately seeks news of his imprisoned brother — a rebel with knowledge that could thwart the attack. Navigating the capital's darkened streets, he races to a series of ominous encounters to keep the Vatican from being blown to bits.

Someone’s been murdered and the police is investigating in a stadium, the crime spot. They have arrested the murder suspect and they just try to find out the murdering procedure, however, it is quite complicated and the friends of the murdered person are not to be very collaborative.

A man who has been through a really bitter experience in his life is thinking of joining his family who has recently immigrated, but before that he must catch up on some things like renting out his home, selling the car and etc. , but his problem is something else.

Participants assigned a specific character in a role-playing game undertake a fictional train journey to an island, in order to win a cash prize, only for the competition to become a microcosm of the limitations they experience in their real lives.

Six people struggling with their relationship, or lack thereof, cross paths with their respective exes — and discover they might still harbor feelings for each other.

Muncher is set in an industrial workplace, where a creature has created problems for the workers and the employer alike.

"Il mondo a scatti" is a film that intertwines images of today and yesterday, still images and moving images through a dialogue between two people who reflect on the visible and invisible things of the world: Cecilia Mangini, unstoppable ninety years old, photographer, documentary maker, screenwriter is filmed by Paolo Pisanelli, photographer, director, curator of cultural events.

Two years after being imprisoned during Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom movement, Aida faces mounting pressure to flee Tehran amid Israel’s attack on Iran. Yet she refuses to leave. Her mother remains in prison, and abandoning the city would mean abandoning her.

David, a movie-maker who loves filmmaking, falls in love with a girl whose father is a staunch opponent of cinema.

A young homeless girl supports herself as a surrogate mother for money. A human rights attorney tries to help her change her life, but ithe challenges seem insurmountable. This is a rarely seen side of Iranian society.

A young couple who live in an old house, notice a car outside, that keeps parking in front of their property and suspiciously stares at it..

A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s license, applying for a job, or seeking approval for a film script, if you live in Iran, you best come fluent in Orwellian discourse.

The suicide of a prominent wine producer unleashes a series of mysterious murders.

Zahira, 18, is close to her family until her parents ask her to follow Pakistani tradition to choose a husband. Torn between family customs and her western lifestyle, the young woman turns for help to her brother and confidant Amir.

Tomorrow is Samira's wedding ceremony and Bahar and Parisa are shopping excitedly. But at night somebody calls and tells them that the bride is dead and the wedding has been called off. They are both shocked and they cannot believe what they have heard, so they go straight to their friend's fiancé, Mansoor, to find out about the cause of her suspicious death.

A social media influencer accidentally kills a politician and gets into trouble.

A director is remaking a classic Iranian film in Tajikistan. The studio armorer is worried that the gun they intend to use is not a prop gun, and fears the consequences. A young woman arrives at the location insisting that she be given an audition. At the same time, In another part of town, Sara, recently recovered from a car crash, suddenly realises that her accident was all part of a conspiracy. These people’s destinies inevitably intertwine.

During the uprising to overthrow the Shah's regime in Iran, protestors set fire to movie theatres to protest Western culture. Forty years later, four people decide to re-create the past by burning down a theatre.

A group of students travel to a remote region to participate in a kite-flying event. Next to their camp by the lakeside, they find a restaurant with cooks that treat the students with suspicion. Bizarre events lead to a complicated situation, from which the students cannot escape.

Set in 70's Pre-Revolution Iran, a Musical Artist Struggles to Make a Name for Himself.

This documentary series, spanning six feature-length films, explores the life and artistic journey of Nosratollah Karimi — an Iranian actor of theater and cinema, director, writer, sculptor, university professor, and gardener.

A man and his two children are late for their flight. While they wait for the next flight something happens that changes his point of view about being a father.

Maryam accidentally killed her husband Nasser and is sentenced to death. The only person who can save her is Mona, Nasser's daughter. All Mona has to do is appear on a TV show and forgive Maryam. But forgiveness proves difficult when they are forced to relive the past.

Diana Liviatani is joined in her family house by her almost new boyfriend, Orlando who is going to meet her scary parents. Due to his insecure, clumsy and embarrassing personality, Orlando insists that his best friend Biagio goes along with him. The social gap between the two friends and the Liviatani family is obvious from the start. The Liviatani have been part of the high business class for generations. The misadventures and the personal problems distract the two unfortunate friends from the creepy secret that hides behind the mansion’s walls...

Ahmad is a detective who is suspicious of the network behind a recently committed crime. When the investigation advances further, he finds out that he might be in danger too.

Bemani has spent ten years in jail for killing her husband. Her child was taken away in prison and allegedly given to her husband’s family. Temporarily released, she immediately starts looking for her son. Bemani goes to the car demolition workshop where Ebi, her brother-in-law, works, but he claims not to know anything about the boy’s fate. She finds out, however, that it was Ebi who sold the child to a rich family. Bemani tries to extract more information from the workers of the demolition shop, but they demand an indecent favour in return for the information. As a desperate mother, she is prepared to go to the extremes, but not in the way the men are hoping for.

A woman accompanies her husband for an audition. The thing that happens there leads her for an important decision...

An old woman's death brings her children together so maybe family's wounds will be healed during this unwanted confrontation.

Riccardo, Amir, Pietro and Massimo, four security guards, not particularly brilliant or courageous, are bound by an indissoluble friendship. When Amir, who has a large family to support, loses his job, the other three feel called to help him at any cost. Going from a bad idea to an impromptu criminal plan, the four friends will find themselves in a whirlwind of encounters, adventures and pitfalls, but also some surprises. Because our heroes still have more than one trick up their sleeve…

It tells the story of a brother and sister named "Parviz" and "Swallow" who earn their living by robbing rich families.

Guided by the spirit of adventure and desire to escape, a group of Italian boys decide to leave secretly for Morocco, soon followed by one of their apprensive parents.

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On her way back from work, a woman witnesses something happening in the bus. She must decide if she will reveal it or not.

Student Fereshteh has to hide her illegitimate baby for one night from her parents who turn up for a surprise visit. Her friend Atefeh helps her. They embark on an odyssey through Tehran during which they must carefully weigh up who their allies are.

Ahmad Piran, a respected figure in his village in Iran, is getting ready to travel to the city to support his son in an important sports competition. However, when he hears that the daughter of one of his friends has gone missing, he decides to stay behind. Despite his apprentice Ayhan's repeated suggestions that he should go to the competition, knowing how much his son has worked for it, Ahmad feels a strong sense of responsibility to his community. He begins gathering the villagers to search for the missing girl. A heartfelt video of Ahmad and the villagers asking for help in searching the vast fields is shared, and soon, a large group of people arrives to the village. After hours of searching, there's no sign of the girl. Ahmad's friend tells him that his daughter may have been kidnapped by someone who knows him and is aware of his leg problem. They begin to search every house in the village.

A young couple need easy money. A few friends join them to plan a kidnap, but nothing goes right when some of them go after revenge and betray each other.

A transsexual named Amen is optimistically planning to do gender reassignment surgery but ends up being sent to prison. Being a transsexual was hard enough in Iran for Amen, let alone the misfortune of being replaced as a murderer.

French documentary showing the making of the iranian oscar-winning film A Separation

Ahmad is a psychiatrist, believing in the treatment of the soul with the medicine in a positivistic and laboratorial way. But when his wife goes missing, he gets involved in his own delusions. Trying hard to find a trace of her, he goes to all of his friends. He desperately tries to act as a very democratic person, giving priority to his wife’s joy and pleasures. He is even willing to show that he would be happy if his wife marries one of his friends since he thinks the other one would be able to make her happier. But it seems that she’s notified that the matter of her happiness is absolutely not dependent on a “man”. Thus he sees that all his scientific beliefs are collapsed…

A remote village has not had a previous boom for years. Residents have either been forced to migrate or are in poverty and misery, but the village has a new guest. But the village has a new...

Forough Farrokhzad, one of Iran's greatest modern poets, provoked uproar by daring to write of female sensuality in the face of society's traditional values. Her awakening found expression in poetry, theatre, and cinema, enabling art, as she saw it, to be a 'window through which we see ourselves sing, shout and cry'.