After witnessing her mother shot on a video call in Tehran, a 14-year-old Iranian-Canadian swim prodigy vanishes into grief and cold Pacific water-turning an impossible open-water swim into a worldwide spectacle-while her father and her best friend race to find her before love, guilt, and hypothermia claim her first.

Noah’s Daughter is a poetic, surreal journey through the southern coasts of Iran and the alienated heart of Tehran. A young woman has set up camp on a quiet island, immersed in the solitude and subtle beauty around her. She shares calm, intimate conversations with an older woman near the sea—discussing past, future, and the quiet art of listening to a person’s pulse with a single fingertip. A brief, intriguing dialogue about life and death with a young man adds another layer of stillness and mystery.

As night falls and Octavio Paz’s poems echo in her dreams, she wakes to find blood streaming from her ear and a strange violet light glowing from a cave by the sea. The next morning, she wakes up elsewhere on the island, disoriented but calm. After a final exchange with the woman and the boy, she gathers her things and returns to Tehran.
There, in a muted cityscape, she visits three people: a girl awaiting closure, a translator who has just completed a ten-year project, and a saxophonist yearning for her words. In each encounter, she gently feels their pulse—delivering a silent message only she seems to carry. In the final scene, she stands alone on a pedestrian bridge above a busy highway, watching the endless flow of the city.

The garbage collector, in his solitude, discovers a pot in a trash can that emits a lovely sound. He falls in love with the pot and takes it home. The pot fills the man’s loneliness, but gradually, the very sound that once brought him joy begins to cause him trouble and discomfort. He decides to return the pot to its original place, but ultimately, due to the attachment he has developed, he chooses to keep it by his side.

Zaaghi, a little girl claiming to have come from the depths of the sea, gets into a taxi and asks the driver to take her to a big party organized by children at the easternmost point of the city, at the end of its darkest alley.

In an elementary school, after a teacher severely punishes a Black student, the student develops a severe stutter and speech impairment. Doctors diagnose the issue as a result of psychological trauma. The student’s family obtains a legal warrant for the teacher’s arrest, and the teacher faces a difficult choice, eventually being forced to endure a similar punishment to escape legal consequences.

A young woman finds herself in a cold, snowy town after her boyfriend leaves her. She tries to rediscover her lost love and mend the broken bond. A rarefied tale that follows the trajectory of an elusive figure, beyond which the city dissolves and an intimate universe marked by a lost love opens up.

Raha follows a struggling family in an unstable economy where prices rise daily. Toheed, the father, buys a second-hand laptop with money earned from selling his daughter’s hair, bringing temporary joy. However, a conflict soon emerges with a wealthy family over the laptop’s true ownership. As tensions rise, Toheed confronts harsh realities that reshape his life and his family’s future, forcing him to fight for what truly matters.

An old man with a stone face, living in a land of rigid stones, has had enough of his situation and decides to get rid of himself by destroying himself with a piece of stone. His son, who serves in an army, gets the news of his father’s death. He is given a two-day break to go back home, so the stone-faced son gets back home to his fatherland.

Shadi an elderly poet passing her days in Tehran in solitude. A young boy strangely enters her life and tries to lift her out of loneliness

Nothing But The Truth is the story of a Kurdish interpreter who inspired by the BLM movement in Los Angeles tries to sway the immigration case of a refugee by giving him legal advice during his highly intense court hearing