Zar Amir Ebrahimi

Two People Exchanging Saliva — In a society where kissing is punishable by death, and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face, Angine, an 

Tatami — Iranian female judokas Leila and her coach Maryam, travel to the Judo World Championship, intent on bringing home Iran’s

Seven Winters in Tehran — After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defence against a ra

Reading Lolita in Tehran — As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar N

Holy Spider — A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killin