Kanoon Movies

An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the...

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share...

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the...

After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made...

A shy, withdrawn boy has his heart on being in the school theater group, but the only role offered to him is that of a crab.

A young orphan named Amiro lives alone in an abandoned tanker in the Iranian port city of Abadan. He survives by shining shoes, selling water, and...

The Rook made in 1974 is the establishment of sadeghi’s style in reference to Persian painting and miniature. The chess board act as witness to...

Young male students at a local Iranian school are asked about their feelings on homework.

During the Iran-Iraq War, young Bashu loses his home and family. Orphaned, he sneaks into a truck leaving the area, and gets off in the Northern...

Hassan Darabi, a troublesome, amoral 10-year-old boy in a small Iranian town wishes to see the Iran national football team play an important match in...

In a parched badland village that looks like the end of the world, Solan is the only teacher. After years of enduring the poorly paid temporary job,...

The story is about two poor boys’ search for their father through a Journey from downtown to uptown. Two hungry boys are forced to move through...

An old man with a hearing aid tires of listening to the noises of the town. But when he takes his aid out he can't hear his grandchildren coming to...

A lonely old man takes to terrorizing the kids who build a football pitch next to his house.

Sadeghi’s second film made in 1972, advances his style by accentuating on modern usage of Persian miniatures. The story gets along with the...

"A humorous slice of educational instruction on refurbishing and painting" (MoMA).

Zal o Simorgh is an epic from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. Zal is an albino new-born child. Sam as his father (The King) who has never seen an albino child,...

A man, unable to hitch a ride back to his broken-down car with a new tire, rolls it back to his car while running.

Calamity by four-year old might be another title for this tense, humorous drama. In the story, a four year old boy (Mohammed Aladpoush) is left at...