Arshia Shakiba

Director, Director of Photography, Producer

When does a temporary home become permanent? In a poorly resourced Syrian refugee camp, makeshift barbershops, schools and weddings spring up as inhabitants try to regain the familiar rhythms of their lives

The Guests

A camera aboard a drone flies over a territory. The aerial images show barren landscapes, dotted with shabby houses, animals and a few human figures.

Rojek

A film within a film genre about the actors who are living inside of an independent film and are trapped in the script of the author. The film is in between fact and fiction, reality and illusion.

Actors of God

A documentary about Kurds, middle-east war and "Kurdistan", a nation with about 45m population and still without a country.

A Flag Without a Country

Reza Baraheni is known as one of the greatest living Iranian poets and novelists. This poetic docudrama is shot and narrated by Baraheni's son, who suffered exile with him for the past 20 years and lives as a filmmaker in Toronto, Canada. The film deals with the artistic collaboration of a father and a son, a poet and a filmmaker.

Alchemy & Dust

Pride and ignorance - a clash of two sins that results in chaos. The most beautiful dreams of a parent spawns into a cataclysmic nightmare that devastates the entire family. How can this happen on the day when they reach the land of paradise?!

The Architect

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami.

Shirin

Some 9 years ago, Walter Karl is convicted for the brutal murder of 11-year-old Annie Gordon and sentenced to 17 years in prison. Now, out early for good behaviour, his release sends shock waves through the city. The result is a marvelous moral contemplation of society's standards, citizen's rights, courage for the sake of love and the path to redemption.

A Matter of Justice

The Minima

Few Strands of Hair

Soli is a well known musician and singer who was forced to leave Iran after the revolution in 1979 when pop music got banned by the regime. Soli went through many difficulties in exile, driving a cab for many years in Toronto, yet continuing his work as a musician, finding a new style of mystical and traditional music.

Light and Sound

Master. Gh.Nami is known as one of the most outstanding and important Iranian painters and visual artists who has been living his life in Toronto as an immigrant for the past 10 years. The film is a visual, musical, poetic docudrama.

Frame & Wall

Kevin on his way to work is confronted with a series of misfortunes, and ends up going back to retrieve the money he gave to a poor man in the morning, and from there, his day become even more complicated.