Shahla Riahi

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.

Golnar lives with her grandparents. One day she goes to the fountain to fetch water. The wind carries away her blue handkerchief. Golnar follows it into the forest and loses her way...

During the Second World War and the occupation of Iran by the Allied army, Dr. Rastan goes to Ih Qashqai to treat his sister's husband. There, he is introduced to Amir Houshang, the elders of the tribal elders, and Ghobad's rebels. He returns to Shiraz. His younger brother, Ali, has been thrown into the city, and ...

Malihe, was emotionally impacted of aphasia in childhood is lost and the needs nerve to be reminded of the past seizures. The abused children, the incompatibility of the site and can intensify his aggression, school officials decided to deport him to be deaf, but her request Shafiq, educational specialist, he is given another chance. Ms Shafiq Malihe attract the confidence and power with the help of artificial shock, he returns to his speech.

nspired by his recent trip to the USA, a filmmaker (played by Dariush Farhang) dreams of making an action film in modern Iran. Having little experience to draw on, he finds that the task is much more daunting that he had first imagined. As he faces setback after setback, he wonders if he will ever complete his project. An interesting look into the complexities of filmmaking.

An examination of the work and lives of actresses in the Iranian film industry prior to the 1979 revolution, featuring myriad interviews and rare film clips.

Dr. Shakibeh Moayyed, a skilled infertility doctor, is unable to have children after ten years of living together with her husband. The two have seen a solution in adopting a girl named Leili; but her husband, a textile design engineer, returns the girl to the orphanage. The girl is given to a wealthy woman.

Mamal Feshfesheh is a pickpocket who is in love with a rich girl named Parvin. Parvin decides to help Mamal to live an honest straight life. Her uncle disapproves of their relationship and ...

Marjan (1956) is the first Persian feature film directed and produced by a woman in Iran. Filmmaker Shahla Riahi (Ghodrat-ol-Zaman Vafadoost) plays the lead role of Marjan, a Roma woman whose doomed romance with a young school teacher has multiple endings, according to key sources. Shot on 35mm black-and-white film with a runtime of 105 minutes, Marjan was the inaugural production of Arya Film Studio, founded by Riahi herself in 1956. Unfortunately, only two reels of the film can be viewed today, preserved by the Iranian film collector Ahmad Jorghanian, while further surviving reels in the Iranian National Film Center remain completely inaccessible. Film scholar Farzaneh Ebrahimzadeh Holasu will present the surviving fragments in person.

Norooz's family convince him to sell the old house in order to build a new modern house, but building of the apartment takes long and he runs out of money. Norooz continues the building by himself but strange things happen that drive him crazy.

A carriage driver who managed to become a taxi driver is in love with his sister-in-law. They were in love when they were young, but both married other people. Now that they are both widowed, they want to realize their dream and get married. The son of the sister-in-law is opposed to this marriage on principle, but he himself is in love with the carriage driver's daughter. The uncle and his nephew are going to challenge each other.

The story of the TV series "Dar Khan" is about the events and mischief of three friends during the summer holidays. Javad's family is the tenant of Aziz Khanom's house, and Mohsen and his father live next door to them. They have a talking parrot named Fandoc. During one of the summer holidays, Ali's cousin Morteza comes to their house, and the mischief of these three playful children becomes the main focus of different stories.

The story of this television series is about the opening of a department store and the humorous adventures that occur there.