The Traces of Light

Still Life

A railway crossing guard and his wife live in a routine of total isolation and uneventfulness.

Ambrosia

Ambrosia is the story of an Iranian-Canadian couple, Ali and Leila, who dream of an exciting future in Vancouver: Ali ow...

Endless

A lonesome man at the threshold of death finds himself trapped in a place called the Endless.

The Bright Day

THE BRIGHT DAY weaves a story that has its roots in the complexity of Iran’s draconian laws governing capital punishment...

A Sentença

Taste of Cherry

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driv...

Blackboards

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, ne...

Kandahar

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous jou...

Where Is The Friend's House?

An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from sc...

Esther's Choice

Esther, a film composer going through a dry spell, moves in with her boyfriend Michael only to find out that he still ke...

Salaam Cinema

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of...

The Cow

An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the...

Moscow

Moscow, the 90s ... A city without a past and without a future. A city that doesn't forgive mistakes. Showing Moscow boh...

No Hard Feelings

Parvis, the son of exiled Iranians, copes with life in his small hometown by indulging himself with pop culture, Grindr...

Primitive

A series of short films in which the history of the Thai border town of Nabua is re-imagined as an elusive science ficti...

Pink Hill

Four friends spend a final summer together tangled in a web of sexual obsession, alienation and magic.

Untying the Knot

Jafar Panahi's short film, shot with one uninterrupted long take, about siblings trying to sell a carpet in need of mone...

Eventide

A man and a woman relive moments of their lives transfigured on the landscape of a beach. Past, present and future merge...

The Sale

Forough is a middle aged woman whose husband has temporarily married with another woman. Even though that was kept secre...

So Divine

Short experimental film in black & white. A young girl learns to appreciate her beauty through the help of a mysterious...

Hundred to One Hundred

Hundred to one hundred (Persian: صدبرابرصد‎‎) is a 1995 Iranian film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: ح...

Gulliver Returns

World traveler and adventurer Gulliver is invited to return to Lilliput, the town he previously saved from the enemy fle...

Shark Side of the Moon

Decades ago, the USSR developed unkillable sharks and launched them to the moon. Today, a team of American astronauts wi...

Detective Knight: Independence

Detective James Knight 's last-minute assignment to the Independence Day shift turns into a race to stop an unbalanced a...

Urotsukidōji III: Return of the Overfiend

As the Overfiend slumbers, the mad emperor Caesar rises to power, enslaving a new race of demon beasts. Into this cruel...

The Return of Godzilla

After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla....

L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Return to Savage Beach

A stolen computer disk contains the location of a hidden tresaure trove. It's up to the sexy ladies of LETHAL (Legion to...

The Return

Two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children a...

The Paper Man Returns

Folklore journalist Lu Xiaosheng visits the Liansheng Paper Effigy Shop to investigate a strange tale. Twenty years ago,...

1920: Evil Returns

This story revolves around a famous poet who meets a woman who is in trouble. In order to treat her, he takes her to Shi...

Bloody Chainsaw Girl Returns: Revenge of Nero

Giko Nokomura is a female student at Nightingale Academy, who carries around her very own chainsaw. One day she begins t...

Ruthless

A high school coach, whose teenage daughter was murdered, takes matters into his own hands by going after the men who ki...

The Return of Ringo

Once again billed as Montgomery Wood, Giuliano Gemma plays a civil war soldier who returns to his family land to find hi...

Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny

To defend their kingdom against a sudden invasion, a mighty general returns to the battlefield alongside a war orphan, n...

The President's Wife

When she arrived at the Elysée Palace, Bernadette Chirac expected to finally get the place she deserved, she who had alw...

1

A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn't appear...

Slayers Return

Lina Inverse and Naga the White Serpent are back! What begins as a routine bandit-stomping turns into the adventure of a...

1

Early morning silence is broken by screeching tires as a helicopter bears down on a speeding vehicle. Taking a quick cor...

Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday

The Accident Man is back, and this time he must best the top assassins in the world to protect the ungrateful son of a m...

Eagle and Jaguar, The Legendary Warriors

In a post-apocalyptic future in which water has almost disappeared, two young survivors travel back in time to find the...