
Acting
Baran Kosari
Born 1985-10-17 · Tehran, Iran
Iranian actress Baran Kosari (باران کوثری) graduated in Stage Acting from Sooreh Art University. She made her acting debut in 1991 in Best Dad in the World.
Acting credits
5.8Qasem is a roadblock employee at the municipality, trying to improve his life while facing problems with his wife Narges.
Blockage
2017
7.1Throughout the two days preceding her long-awaited wedding, amid the flurry of arriving relatives and the preparation of a seemingly endless array of colorful, culinary delights, young bride-to-be Pasandide finds herself the center of attention. The event also proves an occasion for extended family to reconnect, reminisce and rejoice in the pleasures of familiar company. The family compound of aged Uncle Ezzatolah proves an ideal site for this summer reunion among three generations, with its lush courtyard gardens, labyrinthine parlors and passageways and erratic electrical system (subject to untimely city blackouts).
A Cube of Sugar
2011
6.4A young beautiful lady leaves the overprotective and familiar environment of her hometown and moves to the city to set off her college studies. There, she will have to face a new life alone, with all the experiences and dangers that this may imply.
Girl's Dormitory
2004
NRThe story narrates the story of the life of a nursing woman who lives with her child in special circumstances, and she experiences adventures due to events and mistakes.
Chanel
2017
2.0A man has returned after a few years of separation from his family and wants to take back his house from his wife, son, daughter-in-law, and grandson. His son, who farms leeches in the basement and hopes to get rich by doing that, tries to reconcile his father with his mother to stay at home, but his mother intends to marry someone else. The grandson who is just 9 years old, falls in love with his teacher at school and this causes problems in both the boy and the teacher's family.
Astigmatism
2018
4.9Two families who live in neighborhood in south of Tehran have different looks to life. These differences make some troubles for both.
The Nameless Alley
2016
NRThe film is about the lives of two affluent families that are collapsing.
I'm a Mother
2012
8.0Aboard the top deck of a cruise ship, Baran, a young wealthy girl, notices a native boy who is dancing joyfully to beating drums. Baran arrives at a plush hotel on the mainland, however she seems somewhat disconsolate. Later she finds the native boy again and they begin to bond, playfully exploring the beach resort together. Later, the two go aboard a row-boat and the native dives down into the water to collect a pearl from the seabed for her. However, the ending leaves the audience to wonder if he was a figment of Baran's longing imagination all along. Well-shot and with a strong performance from Baran Kosari, this film perfectly captures the bittersweet pangs of young love.
Baran and the Native
1998
2.0Babak is more than just an unemployed engineer living with his parents in his 20s. He possesses a supernatural sense of hearing, so strong he can hear through solid walls and over great distances. But Babak is not the only one with bizarre, unexplained powers. A group of extraordinary individuals begin to emerge and find each other. Will they learn to use their powers for anything other than their own selfish means? With experimental sequences and innovative camerawork, director Iraj Karimi takes a whimsical look at a band of youths brought together through their abilities, but bound by their lack of purpose.
The Magic Generation
2006
6.5A mother's courage, hardship, and love, in times of war. In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, Gilane escorts her pregnant daughter, Maygol, from the relative calm of their village, Espili, into war-torn Tehran to search for Maygol's husband, Rahman. The journey is arduous and what they find when they reach the capital is dismaying and frightening. Fifteen years later, as another war begins in Iraq, Gillane is at home caring for her son Ismael, who suffers from epilepsy, a byproduct of war. As she cares for him, she hopes for a visit from the doctor and from another daughter, Atefah. "Better be a dog than a mother," she says.
Gilaneh
2005
7.2Revenge may have irreversible consequences.
7 Months Pregnant
2016
6.2Lantouri is the name of a gang that mugs people in broad daylight on the streets of Tehran and breaks into homes in the city’s rich northern district. The gang also kidnaps children from families who have become wealthy through corruption and embezzlement of state funds. The film begins with the confessions of individual gang members. Sociologists, human rights activists and political hardliners also have their say. Gang member Pasha runs amok because Maryam, a socially committed, self-confident journalist, does not reciprocate his feelings. The badly injured young woman demands lex talionis – the law, applicable in Iran, of ‘an eye for an eye’.
Lantouri
2016
3.0A man takes another man's girl as a hostage and goes to a deserted house outside of Tehran. But there another destiny is waiting him.
The Postman Doesn't Knock Three Times
2009
5.8Mohammad is sent to an apartment situated in uptown Tehran to install their satellite dishes, while having satellite TV is illegal in Iran. He arrives there with a girl named Shirin who seems to be his girlfriend and is in need of some money to repair her father's car with which she has had an accident the day before. Each of the house's residents have their own fish to fry and they also want their satellites installed as soon as possible.
Tambourine
2008
6.1A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law.
Nargess
1992
6.1Amir, recently released from prison in France, finds himself back in Iran and in over his head when his father, a slaughterhouse worker, calls him to help him cover up a crime which has happened there.
The Slaughterhouse
2020
6.2It is few days left to Amir's 40th birthday but an incident enters him into a big crisis which makes him to begin searching for a solution.
Anonymity
2018
7.0Jalal, a dropouts philosophy student, realizes that her sister Mary, who has a Bipolar disease, is married to a bourgeois man named Shahrokh who is addicted to football betting. He left the house angrily, and goes to his friend's house, Bahman, who is an underground composer. He meets a strange taxi driver named Nasser on his way. They spent a strange night together.
Numbness
2019
5.3An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to abandon the relationship with the poor girl, the old man makes his final choice of love.
The Blue-Veiled
1995
6.6Documentary by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, an Iranian female director. This film portrays two aspects of the Iranian presidential election of 2001.
Our Times
2002
2.5Twelve strangers embark on the Trans-Asia Express, a four-day train journey from Tehran to Istanbul. But not everyone is who they pretend to be or seem to be,
Atoosa's Laughters
2016
5.8Iran's national women’s futsal team makes the Asian Games final in Malaysia. But at the airport on departure day, the team captain finds her husband hasn’t signed the document to permit her exit from the country.
Cold Sweat
2018
6.2A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
Shirin
2009
NRA young woman fleeing Iran via Turkey will do whatever it takes to reach the West. One evening she meets a young Turkish-Iranian man outside a club in Istanbul and offers to get him into the club for free. A a relationship develops between them and she convinces him to leave Turkey with her. They initially approach a relative of the young man, who owns a carpet shop, to help them escape but between drugs and fiery temperaments things seriously misfire. They then try to to hustle for the money they need to pay for fake passports and visas but in the carpet bazaar of Istanbul they are out of their depth.
Hatred
2012