Arash Marandi

Scene of the Crime

Felix Wacker

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police

Kian Meyer

A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Tehran

Ali

Tamar is a Mossad hacker-agent who infiltrates Tehran under a false identity to help destroy Iran's nuclear reactor. But when her mission fails, Tamar must plan an operation that will place everyone dear to her in jeopardy.

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Bijan Nafisi

In revolutionary Iran, as fundamentalists tighten their grip on society, a professor secretly gathers seven of her most dedicated female students to read and discuss forbidden classics of Western literature, including Lolita and Pride and Prejudice. Based on the bestselling memoir by Azar Nafisi. A film by Eran Riklis starring Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson), Zar Amir (Holy Spider), and Mina Kavani (No Bears).

Tehran Taboo

Babak

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.

The Deal

Payam Sanjabi

Geneva, April 2015. In the hushed corridors of a luxury hotel, high-tension international negotiations get underway between the United States and Iran, suspected of secretly developing the atomic weapon. Alexandra Weiss, head of the Swiss diplomatic mission, is trying to maintain a fragile balance between the parties operating behind the scenes. The unexpected arrival of her former love, Payam Sanjabi, an Iranian engineer whose life is under threat, will complicate her task dangerously...

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Arash

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

Under the Shadow

Dr. Reza

After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.

All You Need

Levo

All You Need is a Dramady series about four gay men in Berlin, searching for love and security in the age of Grindr.

Furioso

Camil, der Zauberer

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The Heartbreak Agency

When a skeptical journalist reluctantly participates in heartbreak therapy for an article, he ends up opening his heart to his charming therapist.

Fireflies

Ramin

Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico. There his nostalgia and melancholy are confronted with new friendships, while he starts to rediscover his own desires.

Mamanam

Daryoush

West Germany, Christmas Eve, 1971. 7-year-old Kimîa captures her family’s celebration through the lens of her Super 8 camera. But the mood changes when her mother, Hanna, discovers her husband’s plans.

A Dysfunctional Cat

Masoud

Mina’s family has introduced her to few potential husbands in Iran. She has rejected them all until she meets Kian, a surgeon who has travelled from Germany in search of a wife.

Twilight Storytellers: Sunrise

Benjamin

An Egyptian vampire gifted with the ability to create fire, is torn away from his one true love when turned into a vampire.

Die Unschuld des Todes

Lehrer

Twelve-year-old Haljan will follow in his mother's footsteps and become Death, although he would like to avoid this destiny. Through Zoë, who is the same age, he learns to understand and accept his fate. Even though it means that he has to accompany his only friend to her death.

The Manchador

Pedram

Mina and Saeed live a stressful life in the Iranian capital, Tehran. Being a woman in Iran is not particularly easy and Mina sees a future for the family elsewhere. She wants to move abroad, but Saeed then invents a device that places the responsibility for the hijab where it belongs - with the men whose gaze women need protection from.

Duty Free

The shop manager of a floating bordershop container in the Baltic Sea casts off the chains to shore to save the universe of love she and her employees have created inside. Is unconditional love an escapist dream?

Granica

Hamid

Autumn 2021. Oliwia's home in the forest between Poland and Belarus has become a highly militarized exclusion zone. Every night, she leaves food and water in her garden for the refugees who are trying to make it through the woods. She hasn't met anyone yet - until Hamid appears in front of her window. Her decision to help him entangles her in a tragic struggle with a system that outlaws humanity.