Beh Fraw (2003)
A schoolteacher in Kurdistan decides to give the children an essay on Kurdish marriage traditions and research it among them and the people of the region. A number of people interviewed, as well as school children, believe that while some of their traditions and customs are useful for preserving and strengthening relatives, others, such as the need to marry a cousin or a young girl or marry girls at an early age, are harmful. And they are unacceptable. Along with these documentary images, one of these traditional marriages is reconstructed and a story is told.
Duration :35 min
director(s) : Rahim Morteza Vand
Checkpoint in the Forbidden Area (2003)
The film crew finds a young man who looks like a criminal in the park and asks him to play the role of an addict for different people. He makes a request to anyone in accordance with the director's wishes. For example, he asks a man who is exercising in the park to help him and leave him. He asks a newsstand owner and a female agency manager to provide him with a place to spend his time. He offers to sell drugs to a soldier and a girl in the park, and ... in most cases, he encounters negative reactions, and sometimes vice versa. Eventually he gets tired of this dangerous job and leaves the group alone.
Duration :30 min
director(s) : ، Alireza Akbarpour
Boys Are Born Soldiors (2002)
The film is about the life of a Kurdish boy who tries to support his family by smuggling during the Iran-Iraq War and its many problems, and his older brother, who serves as a soldier, opposes this. He takes care of his younger brother and sister, but his mother is ill. The four live a simple life together. Their mother dies and the sound of gunfire and assault forces two brothers to get dressed and leave the house.
Duration :30 min
director(s) : ، Fariborz Kamkari
No Loving Eye Gazed the Land (2002)
The film explores the Anzali Lagoon pollution and its harmful economic impact on tourism and the extinction of aquatic creatures and fish by the people and officials account; the environmental damage due to the negligence from the people and industries of the region.
Duration :29 min
director(s) : ، Payam Zeinol Abedini
Gamast (2002)
The film is based on interviews with people visiting the war zone. Everyone expresses their point of views about the Iran-Iraq war, caring for the martyrs and survivors of the war, the indifference of the young generation to the war, the problems and needs of the veterans and the people living in the war zones and some criticisms about the current situation. At the end, the film summarizes what the veterans had said about their position in the society, and concludes with a veteran with a case of spinal cord amputation narrating how he was injured, alongside the woman who chose to marry him.
Duration :29 min
director(s) : ، Hossein Fahimi