Movies: Abolfazl Jalili

Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers....

A young man named Shamsadin (Mehdi Moradi) receives the title of Hafez, bestowed only on those who memorize the Koran, and is sent to teach it to Nabat (Aso), the overseas-raised daughter of a religious leader. Although they never see each other's fa...

Acclaimed director Abolfazl Jalili offers a compassionate story of the young Afghan refugee who lives illegally in Iran. 14-year-old Kaim drifts to the Delbaran crossing on the Afghan-Iran border, where he finds work at a coffee shop frequented by tr...

Ghesse Haye Kish was originally produced as a six-episode omnibus film with finances from investors on the Island of Kish in the Persian Gulf, which is a free zone belonging to Iran. All episodes take place on the abandoned island, which had profited...

In a Tehran youth detention centre, detainees have the right to short furloughs, as long as their family provides sufficient bail to guarantee their return. The detention centre’s governor decides to help those without family to take advantage of thi...

Young Hamed, arrested for handing out political tracts banned by the Islamic Republic, finds himself in a place of great suffering, in which illiterate and penniless orphans wash floors and sell their own blood. When a disease breaks out in the priso...

Don is the story of a young boy desperate to find work to help support his family and his heroin-addict parents. Moving from employer to employer, Don, aged only 9 and illiterate, faces an almost impossible task without an identity card. From Don's p...

Darvag tells the tale of a young university student that gets into a lot of trouble for while striving for his continued subsistence....

A young man finds love and his footing as an artist....

During the Iran-Iraq war an orphan boy is taken in by an old man who lives in a cabin deep in the forest....

A simple worker of the train station is arrested and send to Tehran because of his fighting against Shah's regime. His wife and son Milad come to Tehran to find him but this is only the beginning of their story....

A young Iranian boy makes friends with a young girl of the same age against a backdrop of the humdrum daily existence of rural workers....

This award-winning drama from Iran stars Hossein Saki as Shuan, a young man who supports himself as a cook and a security guard. Shuan's father (Nabi Jalilian) arrives one day with his daughter Balut (Zeinab Barbandi) in tow. Balut is crippled by par...

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Emkan is a 17-year-old teenager who has not seen his father for many years and his mother works late night in a factory. He has a small recording camera and he decides to make a film to give a twist to his routine life, however, he is not very profic...

An Iranian film director (played by Jalili himself) embarks on casting for a new project. He believes he has found his lead in Samad Khani, a boy working at a bakery, whose face inspires him....