Faraway

A computer screen, images from the four corners of the world. We cross borders in one-click while another trip’s story reach us in bits,...

A young toymaker tries to make sense of the impermanence of life that he has been forced to acknowledge through experiences of separation and death.

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to...

Hamid is an Iranian teenage boy whose sexuality brings him into conflict with his family's Muslim beliefs.

A haughty acclaimed newly married fashion designer named Iraj is shown the door by his boss after the boss's son arrives at Iran to take over his...

A poetic imagining of the circumstances leading to the death of Yazdgerd III, the last of the Sassanid kings of Iran. His death in 651, during the...

A playwright Iran tries to confront a creative crisis while political clashes erupt during her country's 2009 election.

Dash Akol is greatly respected in Shiraz as an honorable man who has lost his family's money through helping his friends. He has an enemy, however,...

25-year-old Arghavan lives with her parents in Tehran, and intends to marry her fiancé, Hesam. One day, her short stories win her a grant to...

Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In prison, he reconsiders his relationships with members...

Famed actress Susan Taslimi plays three roles here: Kian, who doubts her identity; Vida, the twin sister, a self-assured artist; and their mother,...

An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.