Movies: Maryam Boubani

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....

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 ...

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 jou...

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....

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 mothe...

Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, think...

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....

Mahtab and Ava are classmates in their second year of college studying engineering. The story begin when they and other classmates go on a trip to Esfahan....

A group of youngsters participate in a race match and endure the difficult route of this race just to be hired in the Environmental Protection agency of Tehran....

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....

A cop hunts a serial killer....

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 darknes...

On her wedding night, Rojan, a 14-year-old Kurdish girl who is forced to marry with an old man takes a dangerous decision to set herself free....

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....

In a bloody war with ISIS, the burnt body of an American soldier was accidentally presented to a long-awaited Kurdish mother, while the soldier's real mother steadfastly waits at San Diego's navy base for a son who will never return....

An elderly radio-operator travels across Kurdistan in the war-torn 80s assuring communication between lost families....

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....

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

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....

In a small village outside Sanandaj, 60-year-old Maryam is waiting for her son Farhad's return from military service. One day, Farhad turns up at her door, wearing a chador, and tells her that he is now living as a woman....