Golshifteh Farahani

A couple's love story is complicated when they discover that their child will be born with defects due to the mother's exposure to chemical weapons.

THE PATIENCE STONE is adapted from the best-selling novel by Atiq Rahimi. It tells a story of a young woman watching hover her older husband, in a country torn apart by war.

Earth is visited by an alien species that threatens humanity’s existence. Events unfold in real time through the eyes of five ordinary people across the globe as they struggle to make sense of the chaos unraveling around them.

After years abroad in Paris, a woman returns home to Tunis with the dream of opening up her own psychotherapy practise.

A French journalist, Mathilde, comes to cover the attack in Kurdistan and bears witness to the story of these exceptional "Girls of the Sun" warriors.

An Israeli Mossad agent is sent to Germany to protect a Lebanese informant. As they bond, their relationship faces the threat of global terror.

Nour makes a living from smuggling exotic animals and illicit products. Wishing to get her son out of the city and offer him a better future, she designs and develops a mobile app that connects clients and spiritual healers. It's a success - until a patient's consultation turns into a tragedy.

From her castle, young Sophie can't resist the temptation of the forbidden and what she loves most of all is to get up to no-good with her cousin Paul. When her parents decide to go to America, Sophie is delighted. A year later, she's back in France.

In a sophisticated near perfect society Schirkoa, citizens live with paper bags on heads to dissolve differences. Tensions rise when talks of a mythical land without the bags surface and a fresh council member sparks a revolution.

This talk is given by Chris Daly of Boston University.

Following an everyman observer as he transfigures his low-key daily routine into verse, Jarmusch’s film depicts moments of epiphany and inspiration, finding the rhymes and rhythms of everyday life. A disarming, imperfectly symmetrical relationship drama, starring Adam Driver and Golshifteh Farahani.

Back from the brink of death, highly skilled commando Tyler Rake takes on another dangerous mission: saving the imprisoned family of a ruthless gangster.

Nasser has devoted his life to music. When his beloved violin is broken beyond repair, the musician retreats to his bed, inviting death to take him.

Driven by her passion for food and her small restaurant on the Caspian coast, Atieh engages in a desperate battle to keep her dreams alive when her former fiancée returns after 20 years, apparently intent on closing the restaurant. Official selection of the prestigious Global Lens Collection presented by the Global Film Initiative. (Iran: Farsi w. English subs.)

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian actresses and a French star (Juliette Binoche) are the audience at a performance of a famous 12th century Persian poem. The performance remains off camera; the real story is told by the faces and reactions of the women…

A young boy leaves the city of Nevergreen and journeys to the mysterious Wild Island, where he finds ferocious beasts — and the friendship of a lifetime.

Christmas Eve is right around the corner, when everything goes haywire. Santa's 92,000 elves all fall ill and collapse... Simultaneously! Santa panics and worries about who will make the toys for all the kids all around the world? He has no choice! Santa and his reindeer must go to Earth in search of a cure. But once he gets there, Mr. Claus will need some help to save the magic of Christmas...

What seems like a nightmare is a horrifying reality for a man who wakes up in Paris as apparently the only survivor of a swarm of killer zombies.

A Spanish archaeologist and his young daughter spark a worldwide controversy with their discovery of 10,000-year-old cave paintings in 1879.

Just Like a Woman tells the poignant tale of two women, barely more than casual acquaintances, who, upon escaping the prisons of their unhappy marriages, embark on a revealing journey of self discovery which leads them to the importance - and true meaning - of friendship.