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An Iranian policeman asks a director to make a film about a true stabbing incident involving both of them.

The effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are told from different points of view around the world.

Dopo l'ascesa dei talebani in Afghanistan e la restrizione delle donne nella vita pubblica, una ragazza preadolescente è costretta a travestirsi da ragazzo per trovare un lavoro per mantenere sua madre e sua nonna.

Dopo che una donna nata in Afghanistan che vive in Canada riceve una lettera dalla sorella suicida, intraprende un pericoloso viaggio attraverso l'Afghanistan per cercare di trovarla.

Three linked stories show women at life's crossroads: a girl's 9th birthday, a cycling race, and an elderly woman's dream of buying long-desired items.

A brutal dictator comes face to face with the injustices committed by his regime when his country is taken over by revolutionists.

Every day, 10-year-old Khorsid takes the bus to his work at an instrument maker's shop, and every day something unexpected happens.

On his fortieth birthday, a man engineers a revolt against himself. He telephones his lovers -- all four of them -- and arranges to meet them at his dance school that afternoon. The women are shocked to discover that they have been sharing the affections of the same man. He arrives and tries to explain his actions. He has realized that time is limited for each of us. Total honesty is the only answer. One by one we review the beginning of each affair. The man and his lovers discuss passion, possession, time. How love blossoms from even the smallest seed. He gives each woman a parting gift -- a stopwatch -- and asks them to measure each minute of true love that they experience from now on. The women leave. The man is alone. Later, the fourth woman calls him and they arrange to meet at her house, where he finds the tables turned: he is now one of four lovers. Unable to handle the new situation, the men argue and depart. The man is left alone again...

La storia della sopravvivenza di due bambini nell'Afghanistan dopo i talebani. La loro madre è stata incarcerata per "adulterio" e il padre è nella baia di Guantanamo.

Kurdish teachers Said and Reeboir roam Iranian villages near Iraqi border during war. Said guides displaced men, marries widow Halaleh. Reeboir joins child smugglers. Amid danger, they try teaching nomadic students while soldiers patrol.

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.

After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.

In a post-Taliban Afghanistan a young woman (Agheleh Rezaie) attends school against her conservative father's will, hoping to learn more about democracy to fulfill her dream of being the country's next president.

An embittered Professor and his daughter (whose job it is to nurse sucidal patients) try to deal with life in Iran before and after the fall of the Shah.

A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.

Documentary showing the backstage of production of Samira Makhmalbaf's film Panj É Asr(At Five in the Afternoon), in Kabul, after the fall of the Taliban regime. Everything was recorded with a small digital camera by Samira's 14-year-old sister Hana.