Maryam Boubani

Acting

Maryam Boubani

Born 1953-06-17 · Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran

Maryam Bobani, (born 1953, Sanandaj) Maryam Bobani began taking acting lessons at an early age. She made her film debut with a short role in Kamal Tabrizi’s ‘A Mother's Love’ (1997). Since then, she has appeared in several movies

Acting credits

Arghavan poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Arghavan

2015

Facing Mirrors poster
6.1

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 journey and caused to know each other in a better way.

Facing Mirrors

2012

Tale of the Sea poster
3.8

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 to return to the institution.

Tale of the Sea

2018

Anaar poster
NR

A short film about a grandmother and her 7-year-old grandson.

Anaar

Wind of Change poster
NR

When Sara wakes up in the morning, she finds out that her husband is missing. She and her teenage daughter are left without anyone to rely on. Along with one of the neighbors, they begin desperately seeking him. In a journey from the heart of darkness into the light, would they become resilient heroes of their own stories?

Wind of Change

2023

Rainbow's Tale poster
NR

Connects seven stories of children facing different forms of violence, exploring how unresolved childhood trauma can lead to struggles in adulthood, perpetuating a cycle of hurt and harmful behavior.

Rainbow's Tale

2025

Mothering poster
4.3

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

Mothering

2018

Sisters Apart poster
6.0

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.

Sisters Apart

2021

Hotel New Moon poster
6.0

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.

Hotel New Moon

2020

The Witness poster
7.4

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 and livelihood in pursuit of justice.

The Witness

2025

Shakh poster
NR

After the violent death of her husband, Parisa is placed in a psychiatric facility while awaiting investigation. As strange visions begin to haunt her, the line between trauma and reality slowly dissolves, and something powerful starts demanding to be seen.

Shakh

Bi Khodahafezi poster
NR

The film tells the story of three young people, each of whom sets out from Bandar Abbas to Tehran to achieve a goal.

Bi Khodahafezi

2012

The Wind Carpet poster
6.3

Japan and Iran are not in close relationship. More than 4 centuries ago, however, Persian carpets were used in the festival of Takayama, a historic city in mountainous area of Honsyu. A man planned to resume the carpet in the festival, and asked Kinue, a Persian carpet designer, to design it. Kinue's husband, Makoto, is a carpet importer. They send the design to Iran to weave the carpet. But just before Makoto goes to Iran to receive the carpet, Kinue dies of a traffic accident. A month before the festival, Makoto went to Isphahan, Iran, to receive the carpet. He brings his daughter Sakura, who does not open her heart after she lost her mother. To surprise, the carpet production has not even started. It will take 3 months from the start. For Makoto it means he betrays not only the festival planners but also his late wife.

The Wind Carpet

2003

The Memories of a 75-Year-Old Man poster
NR

A documentary from the point of view of an 75 years old man about the history of Melli bank of Iran and it's first days.

The Memories of a 75-Year-Old Man

2007

Nietzschean suicide poster
NR

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.

Nietzschean suicide

2023

Women's Prison poster
5.9

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 mother's abusive husband. In the early years, Mitra is repeatedly punished as the warden tries to break her. This includes punishment for delivering a baby in the prison cell while all of the prison staff has taken shelter during an Iraqi bombing. The warden's attitude starts to change after 8 years, when Mitra tries to protect a new inmate from rape at the hands of her older cellmates. When the baby comes back in 1991 as a 17 year old delinquent, Sepideh, the warden respects Mitra enough to protect the girl.

Women's Prison

2002

Son-Mother poster
7.0

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.

Son-Mother

2020

Walking on String poster
NR

The story of life of a musician who plays traditional music and comes to Tehran for a living but after a while he is absorb and begins to play in a rock band.

Walking on String

2017

Gradually... poster
6.0

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

Gradually...

2006

Kejal poster
8.5

Kejal, a young Kurdish woman studying in Tehran returns home when her brother is killed in the mountains, leaving behind debts for lost goods. Forced by circumstance, Kejal becomes a Kulbar (Carrying goods on her back, Every mistaken step may chance upon a landmine. They are hunted like wild animals. And in the name of what? To earn just 10 dollars a day!) - a woman in a man's world.

Kejal

2018

Reseba: The Dark Wind poster
9.0

Radical Islamist militants attack a village in Iraq where a young Yazidi love couple prepares for marriage. From that moment onwards their lives are turned into a nightmare.

Reseba: The Dark Wind

2016

Under the Smokey Roof poster
4.4

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.

Under the Smokey Roof

2017

Mahya poster
5.5

Javid is a medical student who's afraid of the dead bodies. In a funeral he meets Mahya, who is a nurse in the hospital he works. This meeting changes his life.

Mahya

2008

No artwork available
NR

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

Mothering

2018