The Other Iran

With the return of their friend Ahmad from Ger­many, a group of old col­lege pals (two mar­ried cou­ples and a broth­er and sister, along with three young kids) decide to reunite for a week­end outing by the Caspi­an Sea. The fun starts right away as they quick­ly catch on to the plan of lively Sepi­deh, who has brought along Elly, her daugh­ter’s kinder­garten teacher, in hopes of set­ting her up with recent­ly divorced Ahmad. But seem­ing­ly triv­ial lies, which start accu­mu­lat­ing from the moment the group arrives at the seashore, sud­den­ly swing round and come back full force when Elly dis­ap­pears in a trou­bling incident. 

Marzieh is a con­fi­dent young woman; an actress, she lives in Tehran. As a modern Iran­ian, she fights against the cur­rent polit­i­cal and social cir­cum­stances that sur­round her in an … read more

THE GREEN WAVE is a touch­ing doc­u­men­tary col­lage that illus­trates the dra­mat­ic events during the summer of 2009 in Iran and tells about the feel­ings of the people behind this … read more