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A rogue prince reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time – gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.

A film documenting the exorbitant 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire, held in October 1971, organized by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and attended by leaders from around the world.

The film follows Zar Amir Ebrahimi's last year in Iran, when she was forced to flee the country fearing for her life after a leaked sex tape with her then-partner in 2006 destroyed her career, sentenced her to prison and 99 lashes when she was only 26.

A first-generation Iranian-Canadian filmmaker in Vancouver discovers his family history in Iran through restoring short anti-war films made by his father during the Iran-Iraq war in the 80s. This becomes an epic cinematic journey revealing untold truths about the war and his cultural identity.

A visual poetry based on the fascination of Persian ornaments, architecture, landscape and music.

The sprawling capital of Persepolis and the site of the epic battle of Sparta at Thermopylae hold new discoveries waiting to be revealed; experts using cutting-edge forensic archaeology to reveal secrets behind these lost cities of ancient Persia.

Documentary film about the final construction and inauguration of the Trans-Iranian Railway Company by the Battle of Saxony - a 1400 km stretch between the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. The stretch through rugged and difficult-to-access terrain involved the construction of 250 bridges and 250 tunnels. Work began in 1933 and was completed 6 years later. This movie takes a view at the Iran in the path of modernization and focuses at the Railway construction project as part of the path and tells the story of how it had been done.

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Iran The New Persia is a documentary movie about Iran in 1947

Documentary about bodybuilding’s rise in the Persian regions, feat. 2022 Mr Olympia Hadi Choopan.

A film by Walter Mittelholzer, shot during a flight from Zurich to Teheran he made on business in 1924 for the Junkers factories, a German manufacturer of planes and motors.

Registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the 6th-century Derbent (Darband) fortification complex is considered the largest defensive structure of Sasanian Persia (Iran) in the Caucasus. “Derbent: What Persia Left Behind”, also explores the unique architecture of the massive fortress, and how it has been preserved for some fifteen centuries by Persian, Arab, Turkish and Russian rulers. Built strategically in the narrowest area between the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian Sea, the fortification includes the northernmost Middle Persian (Pahlavi) inscriptions in the world, which are in danger of destruction. The 42-km defence wall of the complex that extended toward the Black Sea had already been destroyed in the Soviet era.

A magical feather takes Bheem and the gang to Dilshad, where an evil king rules the land. Can they stop his terrible rise — and save the people?

Death Rode Out of Persia is the story of a writer who realises after three years of heavy drinking that he has to get down to some serious work or risk having no money to continue his bingeing. So he starts a romantic novel in which the principal character (the writer’s young alter ego) must choose between the love of a woman and his addiction to cigarettes and alcohol. According to the director, the film "was produced on a very small budget, but the friendship between the crew allowed them to overcome the initial obstacles.

70-second-long footage of the coronation of Reza Shah Pahlavi in the Brilliant Hall of Golestan Palace on April 25th 1926 captured by Khan Baba Motazadei.

1898 indian short

A recap of the TV series with six and a half minutes of new footage.

This documentary has been re-edited out from CHRONOS-documentaries "The Heirs of Cyrus the Great" (1974), "Politics of Oil" (1980) and super-8 home movies by Irmgard and Bengt von zur Mühlen

An adaptation of the Aeschylus play.

Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.

England, 1021: Born in a miserable mining town, Robert Cole swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.

An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish the Kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects.

In 1986 Iran, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village, enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant ended in tragedy.

Esther, the beautiful queen of Persia, intervenes to save the Jewish people from a bloody massacre.

A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.

In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a girl who he later finds is an escaped slave girl belonging to the wicked Caliph. They flee to his father's palace. But alas, there's more to her than meets the eye. Will the evil schemers succeed? The sons of the Forty Thieves to the rescue!

When Ester becomes King Xerxes’ queen, her Cousin Mordecai and that despicable Haman engage in a dangerous game of intrigue for control of the young Persian King Xerxes.

Les Perses (The Persians) is a French TV movie adaptation of Aeschylus' oldest known tragedy, Πέρσαι (Persai). It was originally broadcasted in October 31, 1961. The play deals with the aftermath of the Persian defeat in the battle of Salamis (480 BC), which makes it the only Greek tragedy that deals with a real historical event.

In Ispahan, Persia, Hajji Baba is leaving his father's shop to seek a greater fortune, while the Princess Fawzia is trying to talk her father, the Caliph into giving her in marriage to Nur-El-Din, a rival prince known far and wide as mean and fickle. Her father intends for Fawzia to marry a friend and ally, and makes plans to send her to him.

FIREWALL follows Ani, an Iranian-American girl in Texas longing for her father, lost and unreachable due to an internet firewall in politically turbulent Iran. Ani finds comfort in playing the cello and a beloved pop-up book of the Shahnameh, Iran's longest epic poem. Her mother's frustration over Iranian protests heightens the tension at home, but Ani becomes immersed in a vivid retelling of the Persian legend of Zahhak, the Serpent King. One night, when her father mysteriously returns, ancient Persian mythology intertwines with her reality, forcing her to confront the physical and mental demons that have kept her from finding peace.

Vashti, the Queen of Persia, loses her crown when she refuses to appear at a drunken council meeting wearing only her crown and nothing else. Her act of feminist resistance is echoed through the ages, culminating with the #MeToo movement of 2018.

Filmed during the confinement period in Iran, Fishhead captures fragments of daily life as time stretches and routine becomes absurd. Through minimal gestures and static compositions, the film transforms isolation into a poetic study of silence, repetition, and the fragility of existence.

Inspired by The Seven Valleys, the film follows a solitary wayfarer who steps onto a spiritual journey of self-knowledge, guided not by destination but by transformation. Shot across the historic landscapes of Oxford, the journey unfolds as both an inner pilgrimage and a physical passage that reflects the wayfarer’s movement toward surrender, silence, and submission.

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. Scheherazade tells King Shahryar her stories but these are not those in the book. As in the book, these stories are tragic and comical, with rich and poor, powerless and powerful people, filled with surprising and extraordinary events.

The Persian ruler Shah Nadir has only one daughter. Princess Lindagull is kind-hearted, but feels trapped in her palace life. The vengeful King Bom-Bali sends a Lappish witch disguised as a tiger to kidnap the beloved Princess.

Christmas designer Leslie Major is the biggest fan of Christmas ever. She is like a tidal wave of Yuletide cheer. Her biggest job every year is decorating the lobby of the famed Chesterton Hotel. As she is on a ladder decorating the tree, she falls into the arms of Edmund James - the grandson of the owner JJ James. Edmund is all business and thinks Christmas is superficial and frivolous.

San Francisco-based drag diva Persia teamed up with DADDIES PLASTIK for this anti-gentrification anthem.

In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it well because the micronation was seen as an expedient to not pay taxes on the revenues obtained thanks to the arrival of numerous tourists and curious people.

When a member of their fantasy football league vanishes on his wedding day, a motley group of friends recount the lead-up to his chaotic bachelor party.

The true story of Antonio Maglio—doctor, academic, and director of INAIL—who played a decisive role in the creation of the first edition of the Paralympics, held in Rome in 1960 after the Olympic Games.

As border wars break out in Camelot, the young princess Guinevere is taken to live in safety with the High Priestess L'Fei. When King Arthur claims the crown, Guinevere is promised to him and she must leave her true love, Prince Lancelot in order to unite the land. In a tale of honor, loyalty and the price of war, Guinevere is forced to choose between the only man she has ever loved and her duty to her kingdom.

A criminal from the 1940s is captured by the Nazis, they experiment on him turning him into a vampire. Now the deep state wants to experiment on him to create a super soldier. He fights to stop them.

Steve is an upwardly mobile entrepreneur who believes he has come up with the next big thing - the next Rubik's Cube. "It's going to be bigger than Betamax!". The film covers his journey home from a super successful day at the office where he's all but closed the biggest deal of his life. Just a couple of mobile phone calls on the way home and it's in the bag. However, as he races back to celebrate with his wife and kids, we witness his fall from apparent certain victory to increasing infuriation - everyone's suddenly stopped taking his calls. His anger and desperation boils over when he can't get anyone on the phone....not his secretary, his investors, or his wife. All the while, the Zombie Apocalypse is happening around him; he's just too self absorbed to notice it... until he gets home.

Inside Bar Sport, a bar on the outskirts of Bologna managed by the histrionic Onassis, the adventures of regulars and casual patrons unfold. Searching for a pinball machine or a payphone, they encounter the omnipresent "technician," so called for his passion for soccer and always ready to chat or moderate other people's discussions. Thus, the ordeals of the handyman Bovinelli as he deals with the disasters at Muzzi's house, the diary of a provincial playboy's conquests, the sex life of the fiery prostitute Elvira, the search for a good restaurant during a dazed motorcycle trip with Cocosecco, or a trip to see Bologna play with the lawyer Della Lana become epic tales of tragicomic exploits.

A young woman wakes up inside the four walls of a garage. Inside the small space, a car exhales carbon dioxide. The one who locked her in the garage is a stranger who knows everything about her, about her past. And above all of what is most important in the world: her little daughter waiting for her at home. However, he does not reveal to her the reason why he imprisoned her but only the time she has available to save herself.

Johnny is a successful banker with great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. The happy-go-lucky guy sees his world being torn apart when his friends begin to betray him one-by-one.

An overview on the actions, hunt and capture of Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber.

In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.

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Manuel is a young swimmer who seems one step away from realizing his dreams: he has time to join the Olympics, he's falling in love and his family support him. But in a second his life changes. A brutal unexpected event forces him on a wheelchair and he must seek for all his strength to react, to "be born again".

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Get Off My Turf is a short film about a transgender woman that finds out that her neighbour is transphobic. The film touches upon some of the main themes of modern transphobia, and tests a friendship between two very different women.

Two different criminal gangs are fighting each other. Not even the police seem to be able to stop the conflict in a Christmas Rome surrounded by drug dealing, corruption, violence and arrogance.

A common day in the actual Italy, narrated by the different stories of seven different people, it's the starting point for an overview to the 21st century's italian society, among corrupt politicians, unfaithful husbands, hardcore soccer fans and dishonest businessmen.

Tommaso and Pietro are two brothers who, shortly after their father's funeral, discover that the coffin is actually empty. To find out more they leave for Malaysia, where the man died, but a series of misunderstandings and false clues will take them around the world to discover other empty coffins and a father yet to be found and perhaps to know.

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In a quest for a new, more humane society, a counter-culture revolution takes the world by storm. In the first of the InterReflections Trilogy, we look back to the modern world and wonder how it was we managed to survive as long as we had.

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The story inspired by the mysterious disappearance of Louis James Fraser, popularly known as the founder of Fraser’s Hill, Pahang.

Earthbound is the POV of an angel descending down to earth; veering between celestial folklore and dystopian visions of the future, the angel here is a messenger of affects and forewarnings.

A mermaid community gather for a convention bedded in rural Virginia. Using a experimental doc-style approach, Wetlands examines mankinds relationship with water. Wetlands answers how genisis of mermaids is connected with the mystics of water.