Join us in celebration of Iranian Women Filmmakers’ award-winning films 2025. Bring your own drinks and enjoy the films.
Films are free for all. Pay what you wish at the door to support us. Thank you!
425 Monroe st Brooklyn, NY
SYNOPSIS: The earliest complete surviving feature film directed by an Iranian woman, Marva Nabili’s The Sealed Soil chronicles a young woman’s resistance to her forced marriage, a rebellion quickly misinterpreted by her family as demonic possession. Breathtaking in its directorial sophistication and restraint, and unblinking in its critique of institutionalized misogyny, this is a too-long-underseen masterstroke of world cinema.
“Through her quiet rebellion, the film powerfully captures a woman asserting agency on her own terms, resisting systems that marginalize her.”
Written and Directed by: Marva Nabili
Produced by: Marva Nabili
Featuring: Flor Shabaviz
Cinematography: Barbod Taheri
Date December 13th @ 3PM
Synopsis: After her husband’s death, a young woman flees Yerevan to the Artzakh Republic her daughter to escape her in-laws, but events follow her there.
Written and Directed by: Anahit Abad
Produced by: Taghi Aligholizadeh
Featuring: Narineh Grigoryan
Cinematography: Hassan Karimi
Date December 13th @ 6PM
Followed with Q&A
Synopsis: When Fereydoun’s children put him in a nursing home, his ex-wife Shokoo takes him to her house although her new husband does not quite approve.
Written and Directed by: Mona Zandi
Produced by: Taghi Aligholizadeh
Featuring: Fatemeh Motamed Aria, Reza Babak, Saeid Aghakhani
Cinematography: Farhad Saba
Date December 14th @ 3PM
Followed with Q&A
A world where everything is possible, and where the boundaries between reality and dream are blurred. Mousa makes his art from old clothes found on the beach, where legend says that the islanders sacrificed the clothes of the deceased to the sea goddess, so that she could cleanse their souls.
Written and Directed by: Mina Bozorgmehr & Hadi Kamali Moghadam
Produced by: Ali Mosaffa
Cinematography: Mina Bozorgmehr & Hadi Kamali Moghadam
Date December 14th @ 6PM
Scheherazade is the award-winning short film that was the calling card for the award-winning 1001 Frames that premiered in 2025. Please join us for the screening of the short film and a sneak peak into segments of the feature that followed. There is an hour long Q&A with the artist following the screening.
Written and Directed by: Mehrnoush Alia
Produced by: Dina Harb, Mohammad Aghebati
Cinematography: Jason Chau
Join us in celebration of Iranian Women Filmmakers’ award-winning films. Bring your own drinks and enjoy the films.
Date: December 14th,
Location: Jack NY
20 Putnam Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Short Block @6PM
Silent House @7:45
Marziyeh on December 15th @ 7:15PM
For tickets please go to our Eventbrite page. Tickets are Pay What You Wish.
SHORT BLOCK will begin promptly at 6PM and will include the following films: Exam, Phobos, It Turns Blue, Falling Up, and Faranak.
EXAM
The Sundance Award-Winning film is about a teenage girl who gets involved in the process of delivering a pack of cocaine to its client, and she gets stuck in a weird cycle of occurrences.
FOBOS (PHOBOS)
Employing a poetic and experimental cinematic language, ”Phobos” attempts to transcend the fear of war and destruction.
IT TURNS BLUE
The Grand Jury Award winner film at SXSW tells the story of Pari who covers up domestic violence when her brother beats up his 3 years old daughter.
Eight-year-old Rizoo lives with her mother and grandmother in Tehran. She is lively, polite and smart. But when she must take a class portrait, her world suddenly becomes very complicated. Does she wear the traditional head-scarf, which all girls over the age of nine must wear—or does she display her beautiful long locks? We witness Rizoo navigate the challenges of growing up a misfit girl in modern Iran.
FALLING UP
One night a man’s dream doesn’t proceed as he ordered. The company that produces dreams tells him that the problem is caused due to the similarity between his dream and a young girl’s dream. He has to spend a day with the woman in the company in order to solve the issue.
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY @7:45 PM
SILENT HOUSE is the story of three generations of an Iranian family who live in a one-hundred-year-old house in Tehran. Through archival family footage woven with contemporary images, the two filmmakers, Farnaz and Mohammadreza, portray their family’s evolution across forty years. They follow each family member entangled in the tides of their country’s complicated history. With the house itself as a silent witness, the family’s story becomes a mirror for society and the family’s house a metaphor for Iran.
DECEMBER 15 @7:15PM
MARZIYEH is a recently married young woman who has grown up in a religious family with strict rules. Their time-worn and careful thoughts have always overshadowed her true self-has. On the contrary, in her married life, she has left all those restrictions behind and has an entirely different lifestyle.