Hamide Kheyrabadi

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

A 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.

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The film progresses along two distinct but interwoven series of events. The first series involves young members of a family who have gathered round their old mother and revive their common childhood memories. the second line focuses on the old woman's preparations for her last journey and her joyous cooperation in arranging for the ceremonies that are to be observed after her death.

As Abdollah prepares to get married to his long-time love, he hears calls for help during his wedding and leaves the ceremony for an adventure to find the truth.

An Iranian actor named Akbar is trying to become a serious actor instead of the clown everyone considers him to be. However financial problems force him to abandon his dream of being an artistic actor. He also has to deal with his family problems and his wife's inability to become pregnant.

Maryam Banoo, a depressed wealthy woman, finds out that her husband is having an affair with another woman. Her husband leaves the house after Maryam Banoo understands the truth. Maryam feels lonely and, by accident, she finds a poor worker and his pregnant wife who are homeless and need a warm place and some treatments for the wife. Maryam Banoo helps them by inviting them to her house and entertaining them with several kinds of food and drinks. The husband and wife invite some other members of their family to Banoo's house and they start to steal Banoo's expensive furniture and bothering her with their bad behavior. Finally Maryam's husband comes back from the trip and throws the poor people out. He admits that he is sorry about his affair but Maryam doesn't accept it and moves to an unknown place to live in peace. Her husband goes after her.

Kolah Ghermezi is a naughty school boy. His playfulness gets him expelled from school and he fails to find a job. He sees a program on TV which attracts his attention and he goes to Tehran. With the help of Pesarkhaleh, he goes to the TV program he had seen and finds the reporter. He likes the reporter so much that he decides to help him overcome the obstacles he faces for getting married, but instead causes troubles.

Directed by Khosro Malekan.

After spending all his money buying a piece of land that was already sold to someone else, Nasrallah Madadi finds himself in trouble. To solve his money problems, he then decides to be the offender of fraud rather than its victim. Getting himself involved with a pair of criminals, he begins a crooked business selling a same yellow taxi to different buyers, only to steal it back from them and sell it again. In a fascinating portrayal of human nature, Canary Yellow follows Nasrallah through the ups and downs of his double-sided experience of crime. But will it all end with the better life for his family he hopes for?

A wise man's job is to find young men with good lineage but no financial means, and after training them in various skills with masters, he introduces them to wealthy families with daughters, and after they are able to get married, he makes money in this way...

When Nusrat is released from prison after four years, his fiancée, Leila, whom Suleiman has disfigured, marries Suleiman. Qavam, Nusrat's old friend, returns from a trip and arranges with Nusrat to kill Suleiman when Nusrat has a witness to prove his innocence, and in return, Nusrat will kill his uncle Nasir, who has taken over his father's wealth and intends to marry his mother. Qavam informs Nusrat after a fight with Suleiman...

Mehri and Keyvan spend their holidays in Bandar with their parents. Mehri falls in love with a young man named Hemet, and Keyvan falls in love with Hemet's sister (Zinet). Despite their parents' approval, the two couples decide to get married. Zeinet and Keyvan get married, and Hemet goes to Tehran to buy a wedding dress. But he loses his money and, since he has no intention of returning, he stays in Tehran. Zeinet is unloved by her family, and when she gives birth to her child (the child is black), Keyvan drives her away on the pretext of infidelity. The family doctor shelters Zeinet, and Mehri commits suicide in order to blame her parents, but a series of incidents and actions taken by the doctor resolve the problem and the two couples live a peaceful life.

The people of Yazd are harassed by Qasim the extortionist, until Habib and Tahir force Qasim to change his ways. One night, Habib meets Shirin, Qasim's friend, in a notorious neighborhood and offers to marry her if she repents. Habib takes Shirin to Mashhad and gives his sister Maryam to Tahir. Qasim, who holds a grudge against Tahir, insults Maryam. The local baker, who witnesses the incident, remains silent, and Tahir marries Maryam to protect his reputation and that of his friend. Qasim's henchmen spread the rumor that Tahir married her after deceiving Maryam. They lock him in a room to silence the baker. Habib returns to Yazd with the intention of taking revenge; But the local confidants force him and Taher to face each other in the depths of the fort to prevent bloodshed. Before the fight begins, the baker escapes with a wounded body and, with Shirin's help, makes his way to the fort and reveals the truth. Habib and Taher go after Qasim and eventually hand him over to the police.

A man and a woman, including a high-ranking army officer, a prostitute, a fake doctor, and a drug smuggler who were active against the people before the revolution, lure the captain of the barge to let them cross the water border. A young worker is also with the passengers who are going to find work in Arab countries. Along the way, he becomes interested in the officer's daughter. The captain of the barge disembarks them on a deserted island. As the water rises, they find themselves facing death, and with great effort, they return to the barge and confront the captain and the workers. When a group of people from both sides starts to fight, they lose their lives. The officer's daughter and the young worker are the only people who survive this group. After a while, the two meet in a boat and, seeing the tricolor flag of Iran from afar, they realize that they are returning to their country.

Sadeq (Bahman Mofid) and Hojjat (Manouchehr Vosouq) are two cousins.

Mehdi (Mohammad Reza Fazeli), a taxi driver, lives with her son Afshin (Afshin Zolfaghari) and Abbas (Mansour Sepehrnia), her husband's brother, after the death of his wife...

A Young guy (Behrouz Vossoughi) who is dreaming to go to America is trying to manage the money by stealing it, then one day he meets a wealthy girl (Gogoosh).

Baba Shamal and Looti Heydar, two community leaders of adjacent neighbourhoods make a pact of fraternity. Baba Shamal's high attitude of Heydar however dramatically changes when he is told that Heydar has been enamoured with Shokat, the girl Baba Shamal has just wed,...

Ali gets a job and, by dint of dedication and patience, achieves a significant promotion and ends up becoming the manager of the company, as well as winning Meltem's love. However, this is not to the liking of his cousin Cihangir and his father, who instead are totally broke and want to get their revenge on Ali.

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Reza and his mother Mah Banu, have a good and near relationship with Hossein family known as Khan Baba. Reza spends his time with Changiz, the son of Hossein family, and is interested in his sister, Mino.

Seyed Morteza, a pigeon fancier, lives in Kashan with his blind mother. He captures a ring-necked dove that all the local dove fanciers are after. His mother considers the dove a bad omen and asks Seyed Morteza to let it go. Meanwhile, Seyed Morteza’s uncle, Seyed Mostafa, sends him to Shiraz to propose to his fiancée, Tooba. Morteza and Tooba fall in love and get married. Morteza brings Tooba back to Kashan but tells nothing about it to his mother or his uncle. His mother discovers their relationship and, believing Morteza has betrayed them, curses him. Mostafa arrives and overhears her words...

Mehdi “the Leopard” is released from prison after seven years, only to find Ghasem and his gang standing in his way — they have shut down his gambling den and driven the neighborhood to desperation. Mehdi helps an old woman, and her granddaughter Maryam — whose father is in prison — asks Mehdi to pretend to be her father in front of her friends. Mehdi agrees, and the two gradually grow fond of each other. Ghasem and his men plot to kill Mehdi, and after failing in their first attempt, they kidnap Maryam...

Fati and his brother are involved in illegal activities to support their addicted father ...

When a man met a dancer he became enamored of her and married her. After that the dancer stopped working and took up housekeeping. The dancer had a daughter who would occasionally meet her without telling the man she existed. These secret meetings made the man suspicious and the cabaret owner, who had suffered a loss when the dancing stopped, exacerbated the suspicions

Inspired by Iranian folk tales and reputed as the first Iranian musical movie, the film follows the story of the lazybones congenitally bald Hassan who is tricked out of the house by his mother. Then he learns about Chelgis, a girl kidnapped and kept by an ogre in his enchanted garden. Smitten by her beauty, Hassan tries to find a way to save her. In a public bathroom, he encounters his doppelganger. The doppelganger promises to fulfill his wishes in return for a fraction of his life. But when fulfilled, his wishes do not emerge the same he envisioned…

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The thief, who looks a lot like the bank manager, after a long time of tracking and planning a precise scheme, introduces himself as the manager and robs the bank's safe. But he fails to execute the plan and gets caught by the police.

A girl pretends to be Mitra, the fiancée of Morteza Khan, the owner of a coffee shop. After some time of them socializing and wedding preparations being made, the real Mitra arrives in Tehran from Europe. The embarrassed girl leaves Morteza's house, but Morteza, who has fallen in love with her, follows her, finds her, and marries her.

A girl who is a milk delivery agent meets a young man and soon becomes infatuated with him.

A man suddenly comes into a lot of money and from then on tries to get everything he's ever wished for: glory, status, cars, houses, women, and good times.

The tale of Ali Baba.

Ahmad leaves his father SafarAli and his mother, so he can go to Tehran and work there.

The Khans attack the nomads, and after killing and plundering, they set fire to the tents.

Amir, Mansour, and Nader get interested in private detective work after watching crime TV shows.

A criminal group intends to murder a girl, but a young man saves her. The girl is the daughter of a wealthy man, and after his wife's death, the father married a widow. The girl's stepmother, a young woman, plotted the girl's murder to inherit her husband's wealth herself. With the young man's presence in the girl's life, the stepmother's plan becomes impossible to execute until the family's father is killed in an accident, and the woman stages the scene to make it appear that the young man committed the murder. The police, based on the evidence, pursue the young man and his friend. The girl decides to help the young man. Eventually, it turns out that the killer is the victim's brother, whom everyone thought had died. With the discovery of the truth, the young man's innocence is proven, and he begins a life together with the girl.

A maid is raped by her boss and then kicked out of the house. The maid, who has become pregnant, gives birth to her child, and because she cannot take care of her child, she abandons him. A driver finds the child and keeps him with him, and by following up, he first finds his mother and then forces the boss to marry his former maid.

An elderly man whose daughter has many suitors sets the condition for marriage to her as finding his other daughter. He, who is in shock, recovers from his illness.

Agha Moochool, the entertainer, amuses the neighborhood kids with dancing and singing.

A Lost Persian Film. Javad Shadi, who is in charge of a joy caravan, murders his wife Setareh because of her secret lifestyle and association with a vagrant and is sentenced to life imprisonment. He gives his daughter Roya to a traveling singer named Gholam Hossein. Javad is released after fifteen years and returns to his hometown of Rudbar. Gholam Hossein, who entrusts Roya to a wealthy family a year after Javad's imprisonment, gives Javad the address of Amir Afzal. Javad goes to Amir Afzal and his wife and agrees to give up his paternal rights in exchange for his daughter's happiness. Javad finds out that Jamshid Mehrdad, Roya's fiancé, is an unemployed young man with a wife and two children. Javad arranges for Roya to marry Kamran, Roya's music teacher; But Roya hurts Javad due to a misunderstanding, and Javad continues his life in anonymity. Kamran tells Roya the truth of the incident, and the two find Javad and bring him back home.

Professor Salim, fed up with his wife's bad temper, announced that he had created an artificial woman.

The distinguished lord procures his daily necessities from the villagers as tribute with the help of his steward. He encourages his daughter, Monireh, to befriend Farrokh. Farrokh dishonors Monireh by giving her a sleeping drug and then flees to the city.

Harun and Qarun, despite their names' prestige, are examples of misery, humiliation, wandering, and wretchedness. By finding a magic lamp and enslaving a genie bound to it, they soon acquire wealth and status. But they achieve true glory when they use their power to save and bring happiness to a girl trapped by a demonic figure.

A young mother and her toddler daughter, Leila, are going to the beach by boat. Their boat capsizes due to a falling tree, and the mother is killed. A young fisherman named Kami rescues the now blind Leila and takes her to his hut. Their hut burns down, and the boy and Leila go to Tehran. They get separated due to an accident, and years later, when Leila has become a famous singer and Kami a renowned musician, they run into each other. A young doctor, who is fond of Leila's voice, operates on her, and Leila regains her sight, but she doesn't recognize Kami, and Kami, who has a slight limp, hesitates to introduce himself to Leila. However, Leila recognizes Kami due to an accident, and they start a life together.

A super wealthy young man falls for a movie star. To get her attention, he buys the entire studio where she works. He then swaps places with his driver and pursues his hobby by forming a film crew. At the same time, a criminal gang, led by a captivating woman, enters the scene. This all happens just as the wealthy young man and the movie star genuinely fall for each other. After a string of adventures and ups and downs, the rich young man and the movie star eventually get married.

Rahmat, an unemployed young man, befriends a woman forced into prostitution after being deceived by a womanizer named Parviz. Later, during a trip to Isfahan, he meets Zohreh, another of Parviz's victims. Pregnant with Parviz's child, Zohreh asks Rahmat to pose as her husband before her parents ...

Madadali has been interested in Ra'na for years, but the girl's father, Mash Yadollah, and her mother agree to marry their daughter to Lotfollah.

Abbas gets hired as a rich woman's driver.

Nasser Fadakar and Taghi Bi-Azar work for Kousheh at an institute. Kousheh is not satisfied with their work and behavior and sends both of them on forced leave. The two go on a trip in their landlady's old car and meet Mina on the road. Mina is a famous singer whose aunt and her managers, Sousoul and Abdullah Booghi, are watching over her so that she doesn't think about claiming her wealth, which her aunt, with the help of Saeed and by forging documents, has taken possession of. Saeed wants to marry Mina and receive half of her wealth. Mina asks Nasser for help. The aunt, by hypnotizing Mina, arranges the wedding ceremony of Saeed and Mina, and Nasser, with the help of a man who pretends to be able to put people to sleep and make them talk, and with Taghi's antics, who is dressed in women's clothes, disrupt their wedding ceremony. Taghi kidnaps Mina and Nasser hands Saeed over to the police. Finally, Nasser starts a life with Mina and Taghi with Mina's friend.

A middle-aged couple travels from a small town to Tehran with their young son to visit their friends and their daughter. However, both families, to hide their true age, make their young son and daughter appear as young children. Despite this, the son and daughter gradually fall in love, and after a while, their love is revealed, thus exposing the pretense of the adults.

Iraj, Mr. Javanmard's secretary, goes to Mr. Paymard's house with a letter from Mr. Javanmard to propose to his daughter, Giti, for Farrokh, Mr. Javanmard's son. Mehraghdas, Mr. Paymard's wife, opposes the marriage because they don't know Farrokh. To test Farrokh, the couple introduces three girls as their daughters so that Farrokh can identify the real daughter among them.

A man with a wife and children often spends his time carousing and gambling with a cabaret woman.

Hossein Kurd Shabestri, the shepherd of Sardar Masih Khan, saves Fari Naz, Sardar's daughter, from some bandits. He goes to Isfahan to look for the girl, and in the market of the city, he has a dispute with Loti Haider and Mesh Asfar over the payment for the repair of his clothes and the food he ate. They take him to Sardar Masih Khan, and the Sardar pays for Hossein and appoints Mehtar Nasim Aiyar to teach Hossein the ways and customs of swordplay and Ghorchi becomes a Sardar.

A professor who found out a formula to make diamonds from oil is killed in Tehran and his nephew who is a spy is sent to Tehran by Interpol in order to find the formula.

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A naive youth from a provincial town journeys to Tehran with aspirations of advancement, only to become ensnared by the city's allure, ultimately returning to his hometown with nothing to show for it. This cinematic work draws its inspiration from a theatrical production titled 'The Triplets,' which was staged in 1954 at a Laleh-zar theater in Tehran.

A retired colonel, after losing his son in an alien attack on the homeland, asks his son-in-law, Kiumars, to join the homeland's defenders.

A young villager loves the landlord's daughter, while his sister is in love with the landlord's son. The landlord is initially furious about this, but later agrees to his son marrying the village girl. He tells the young villager that he will only agree to his marriage to his daughter if he earns a lot of money. The young villager manages to get the money during an incident. However, the landlord's daughter falls ill from missing the young villager. The landlord searches for the young man. Eventually, he finds him and, dropping his earlier condition, agrees to their marriage.