Movies: Maryam Boubani

Rojda, a native of Iraqi Kurdistan and a soldier in the German army, travels to a refugee camp in Greece where she manages to meet her mother, who has bad news about her sister Dilan....

Shirin is a woman facing problems in her marriage and with her child. She's trying desperately for a way to connect with her son and her husband....

In Iran, the retired dance teacher Tarlan witnesses her friend Rana's murder by her husband, who is an important government figure. When the police refuse to investigate, Tarlan must decide whether to bow to political pressure or risk her reputation ...

A suicide pharmacy owner tries to delay the suicide of the only midwife in his city until after his pregnant wife gives birth. Out of his efforts comes a novel suicide method that can revive his customers’ will to live....

Rana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transsexual man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same jou...

A widow who works tirelessly at a failing factory in sanctions-gripped Iran receives a marriage proposal that could mean financial security — but could also tear her family apart....

On her wedding night, Rojan, a 14-year-old Kurdish girl who is forced to marry with an old man takes a dangerous decision to set herself free....

Noushin is a single mother who lives by her girl alone and has a peaceful life but when a foreign guy enters their life everything changes for them and new secrets reveal....

Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, think...

Spanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young midwife, Mitra, who is serving her sentence for killing her mothe...

A group of youngsters participate in a race match and endure the difficult route of this race just to be hired in the Environmental Protection agency of Tehran....

Struggling to make ends meet, a single mother caters the funerals and weddings of the rich. But her daughter has different ideas about her mother’s job....

In a bloody war with ISIS, the burnt body of an American soldier was accidentally presented to a long-awaited Kurdish mother, while the soldier's real mother steadfastly waits at San Diego's navy base for a son who will never return....

Nava tries to convince her sister to get back with her husband, while her own fiance is cheating on her....

A girl has heart disease and looks for a heart transplant....

Nava tries to convince her sister to get back with her husband, while her own fiance is cheating on her....

A welder discovers his wife has disappeared. He sets out to look for her....

Mahtab and Ava are classmates in their second year of college studying engineering. The story begin when they and other classmates go on a trip to Esfahan....

A group of young people are trying to teach Kurdish in Turkish Kurdistan, a land where the teaching of the language is forbidden by Turkish authorities. Part of their work is to print clandestine schoolbooks in underground schools and distribute them...

Taher Mohebi is a well-known writer who, after witnessing a violent murder, breaks down and spends three years in a mental institution. After release he is told that things are just as they were before, but his relentless hallucinations make him want...