Movies: Ali Asgari

  • 2023
    Terrestrial Verses

    Terrestrial Verses (2023)

    Terrestrial Verses

    7.42023HD

    A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s lic...

    Terrestrial Verses
  • 2022
    The Red Suitcase

    The Red Suitcase (2022)

    The Red Suitcase

    7.22022HD

    A veiled 16 year old Iranian teenager is terrified to take her red suitcase from the carosel at the Luxembourg Airport, and go through the exit doors. Her fear grows with every second in the face of what awaits her beyond the gate....

    The Red Suitcase
  • 2017
    Disappearance

    Disappearance (2017)

    Disappearance

    6.22017HD

    During a dramatic night, two young lovers run from hospital to hospital seeking for an help for some complications after their first time. They'll have to confront with the indifference of some doctors and avoid them to call their parents....

    Disappearance
  • 2022
    Until Tomorrow

    Until Tomorrow (2022)

    Until Tomorrow

    6.42022HD

    Student Fereshteh has to hide her illegitimate baby for one night from her parents who turn up for a surprise visit. Her friend Atefeh helps her. They embark on an odyssey through Tehran during which they must carefully weigh up who their allies are....

    Until Tomorrow
  • 2013
    More Than Two Hours

    More Than Two Hours (2013)

    More Than Two Hours

    6.22013HD

    A woman suffers complications after having sex. Her partner takes her to the hospital, but getting help proves to be difficult....

    More Than Two Hours
  • 2016
    The Silence

    The Silence (2016)

    The Silence

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    Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer....

    The Silence
  • 2024
    Higher than Acidic Clouds

    Higher than Acidic Clouds (2024)

    Higher than Acidic Clouds

    5.52024HD

    After the of premiere of his film Terrestrial Verses (co-directed by Alireza Khatami) in Cannes, Ali Asgari was banned from traveling by the Iranian authorities. But filmmakers like Asgari are not easily deterred from practicing their art, despite un...

    Higher than Acidic Clouds
  • 2018
    The Role

    The Role (2018)

    The Role

    62018HD

    A woman accompanies her husband for an audition. The thing that happens there leads her for an important decision......

    The Role
  • 2017
    Gaze

    Gaze (2017)

    Gaze

    7.62017HD

    On her way back from work, a woman witnesses something happening in the bus. She must decide if she will reveal it or not....

    Gaze
  • 2006
    A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral

    A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral (2006)

    A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral

    7.42006HD

    The film is set around three protagonists. Two run a gas station on the outskirts of town, on a road that gets next to no traffic anymore, and so they get next to no customers. They live and work out of a decrepit van on site, its windows covered in ...

    A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral
  • 2020
    Witness

    Witness (2020)

    Witness

    7.22020HD

    A mother helps an elderly woman in a shopping mall in Tehran. A tragedy occurs, brutally confronting her with the impact of her actions....

    Witness
  • 2020
    Pilgrims

    Pilgrims (2020)

    Pilgrims

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    Two little brothers leave their village to find their mother in Istanbul without their father's knowledge....

    Pilgrims
  • 2008
    Lonely Tunes of Tehran

    Lonely Tunes of Tehran (2008)

    Lonely Tunes of Tehran

    5.42008HD

    The tale of two lonely misfits struggling to survive in the asphalt jungle....

    Lonely Tunes of Tehran
  • 2016
    In the Same Garden

    In the Same Garden (2016)

    In the Same Garden

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    We all live on the same planet, under one sun which nurtures and renews our unique and common hopes for the future. No matter how much we differ from each other in color, ethnicity and belief, we all share the same source of life, united in our desti...

    In the Same Garden
  • 2018
    Delay

    Delay (2018)

    Delay

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    A man and his two children are late for their flight. While they wait for the next flight something happens that changes his point of view about being a father....

    Delay
  • 2021
    Lakeshore

    Lakeshore (2021)

    Lakeshore

    22021HD

    Leyla who is the daughter of a prominent family in a small town learns that she is pregnant and decides to tell this to her lover. Fatih is a teacher at the town school and,has a secret relationship with Leyla. When she meets him by Lake, she wakes u...

    Lakeshore
  • 2022
    About Me

    About Me (2022)

    About Me

    52022HD

    Young Fatima holds a secret that could change her fate; she must place her trust in a doctor to make a tough decision between cultural tradition and medical ethics....

    About Me
  • 2012
    Barbie

    Barbie (2012)

    Barbie

    02012HD

    Soniya is going to be a first grader and she is happy for this however she faces this reality that to go to school she has to wear what she does not like....

    Barbie
  • 2021
    Ahu

    Ahu (2021)

    Ahu

    02021HD

    As Ahu attempts to overcome insomnia in her new apartment, her life becomes increasingly entangled with her troubled neighbour....

    Ahu
  • 2014
    The Baby

    The Baby (2014)

    The Baby

    5.72014HD

    Narges and her friend have just a few hours to find someone to take care of her baby....

    The Baby