Pari and Hanna are best friends and active participants in Tehran’s vibrant underground arts scene. But the risk of running afoul of the government is omnipresent, forcing difficult decisions.

The Friend’s House Is Here is playing May 8-9 at the Seattle International Film Festival.

Pari and Hanna are best friends and active participants in Tehran’s vibrant underground arts scene. But the risk of running afoul of the government is omnipresent, forcing difficult decisions.

The Friend’s House is Here is playing May 8-9 at the Seattle International Film Festival.

“Gaza Is Our Home” is a profoundly personal documentary that peels back the layers of devastation within the Gaza Strip.

“Gaza Is Our Home” is a profoundly personal documentary that peels back the layers of devastation within the Gaza Strip.

Winner of Best Film, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor
at the Children’s Film Festival of Iran

Two boys, two distant shores—each searching for what was lost. Sea Boys is a tender story of loss, hope, and unexpected connection.

This documentary is about the life of “Habibeh", a self-taught Iranian artist who according to her has created over 4,000 artworks with her special tools and techniques for 7 years. For “Habibeh", art is a medium to endure the imposed and unwanted sufferings in her life. Habibeh’s work has not been widely displayed until the making of this film.

There will be a discussion session following the film.

A timely documentary film about exiles in America and the family they left behind. “Mouth Harp in Minor Key” sheds light on the dynamics of our contemporary times, beset by globalization and consolidation of capital and media, on the one hand, and by fragmentation and disruptions of nation-states, on the other.

Q & A with director following the show.

Join us on 12/08/24 at 4:00PM for a film screening of Alborz: We Climb Mountains (2023, 86 mins.) at UW Bothell Campus Discovery Hall 061!

Alborz: We Climb Mountains, tells the story of the school during many tumultuous years in Iran’s modern history, from the perspectives of its graduates, teachers, and even Dr. Mojtahedi’s own voice from archival recordings; it tells it with humor, fondness, and nostalgia for a bygone era. It exemplifies what has been lost in the years since the 1979 Revolution and why today so many among the bright and promising young Iranians sound critical of current policies and administrative mishandling of one of their country's once top educational institutions.

Join us for a film screening & of “Impasse” a long awaited documentary on the “Woman Life Freedom Movement” in Iran, written and produced by Bahman Kiarostami and Rahmaneh Rabani!

Language: Persian with English subtitles فیلم به زبان فارسی با زیرنویس انگلیسی

Join Pevyand in partnership with Kirkland Library for a screening of “Yalda”. In Iran today: Maryam (22) accidently kills her husband Nasser (65) and is sentenced to death. The only person who can save her is Mona, Nasser’s daughter.

Join Pevyand in partnership with Kirkland Library for a screening of “Ten”. A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers by world renowned director Abbas Kiarostami.

Join Pevyand in partnership with Kirkland Library for a screening of “Inversion”. With fascinating insights into everyday life in Tehran, the film portrays the “inversion” of a woman, and her mutiny against male domination.

Join Pevyand in partnership with Kirkland Library for the screening of “Cold Sweat”. A story about Iran's national women’s futsal team makes the Asian Games final in Malaysia.