| Year |
Title |
Director |
Actors |
Genre |
Notability
|
| 2000 |
...Va man dar khoshbakhti-e shirin be donya amadam! (aka ...and I was born to sweet delight!) |
Kiarash Anvari |
|
Short film |
Official selection in international competition section of 48th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
|
| Blackboards |
Samira Makhmalbaf |
|
Drama |
Entered into the 2000 Cannes Film Festival
|
| The Circle |
Jafar Panahi |
|
Drama |
Won Golden Lion at Venice
|
| The Day I Became a Woman |
Marzieh Meshkini |
|
Drama |
|
| Smell of Camphor, Scent of Jasmine |
Bahman Farmanara |
Bahman Farmanara |
Drama |
|
| Defenseless generation |
Mohammad memari- hojjat baqaee |
|
|
police film festival/tvducumentryfilms festival2000 sony Film Festival
|
| Djomeh
|
Hassan Yektapanah
|
|
|
Won Caméra d'Or at Cannes
|
| A Time for Drunken Horses |
Bahman Ghobadi |
|
Drama |
Won Caméra d'Or at Cannes
|
| 2001 |
ABC Africa |
Abbas Kiarostami |
|
Documentary |
Screened at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
|
| Baran |
Majid Majidi |
Hossein Abedini |
Drama |
Won the Freedom of Expression Award at the National Board of Review (USA)
|
| Kandahar |
Mohsen Makhmalbaf |
Nelofer Pazira |
Drama |
Won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
|
| Raye makhfi |
Babak Payami |
|
Comedy |
|
| Under the Skin of the City |
Rakhshan Bani-E'temad |
|
|
Entered into the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival
|
| 2002 |
Barefoot to Herat |
Majid Majidi |
|
Documentary |
Won FIPERSCI Prize
|
| Marooned in Iraq |
Bahman Ghobadi |
|
Documentary Drama |
Won François Chalais Award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival
|
| Noora |
Mahmoud Shoolizadeh |
|
Drama / Fiction film |
Won Best Film award of Taormina Film Festival in Italy
|
| Ten |
Abbas Kiarostami |
|
Documentary Drama |
Entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival
|
| To Stay Alive |
Dariush Mehrjui |
|
|
Screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival
|
| Unruled Paper |
Nasser Taghvai |
Khosrow Shakibai, Hadyeh Tehrani, Jamileh Sheikhi, Jamshid Mashayekhi |
|
|
| 2003 |
Abadan |
Mani Haghighi |
Shahrokh Foroutanian, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Fatemeh Motamed Aria, Hedieh Tehrani |
Drama |
|
| Crimson Gold |
Jafar Panahi |
|
Drama |
Screenplay by Abbas Kiarostami
|
| Dancing in the Dust |
Asghar Farhadi |
|
|
Entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival
|
| Five |
Abbas Kiarostami |
|
|
Screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival
|
| At Five in the Afternoon |
Samira Makhmalbaf |
|
|
Premiered at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival
First film shot in Kabul after invasion
|
| To Have or Not to Have |
Niki Karimi |
|
Documentary |
Niki Karimi's directional debut
|
| 2004 |
20 Fingers |
Mania Akbari |
Bijan Daneshmand |
Drama |
Shot in several long takes on a DV camera
|
| Duel |
Ahmad Reza Darvish |
Pejman Bazeghi |
Drama / War |
Biggest budget in the history of the cinema of Iran
|
| Marmoulak |
Kamal Tabrizi |
Parviz Parastui |
Comedy |
|
| Mehman-e Maman |
Dariush Mehrjui |
Golab Adine, Amin Hayai |
Comedy / Drama |
Written by Houshang Moradi Kermani
|
| 10 on Ten |
Abbas Kiarostami |
|
|
Screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival
|
| Left Foot Forward on the Beat
|
Kazem Ma'asoumi
|
|
|
Entered into the 27th Moscow International Film Festival
|
| Turtles Can Fly |
Bahman Ghobadi |
|
Drama / War |
The first film made in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein
Won Golden Seashell at San Sebastian International Film Festival
|
| 2005 |
Dame sobh |
Hamid Rahmanian |
Hossein Yari |
Drama |
Award-winning
|
| Maxx |
Saman Moghaddam |
Mohammad Reza Sharifinia, Pegah Ahangarani |
Musical comedy |
|
| Nose, Iranian Style |
Mehrdad Oskouei |
|
Documentary |
|
| One Night |
Niki Karimi |
|
Drama |
Nominated for Prix un certain regard at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival
|
| Requiem of Snow |
Jamil Rostami |
|
Drama |
The first film to represent Iraq in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Oscars
|
| So Close, So Far |
Reza Mirkarimi |
|
Drama |
Won Crystal Simorgh for the Best Film at the 24th Fajr Film Festival
Selected to represent Iran in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Oscars
|
| Tickets |
Abbas Kiarostami
Ken Loach
Ermanno Olmi |
|
Comedy / Drama |
|
| The Willow Tree |
Majid Majidi |
Parviz Parastui |
Drama |
|
| 2006 |
A Few Days Later |
Niki Karimi |
|
Drama |
Script won the Rotterdam festival's Hubert Bals Fund
|
| Offside |
Jafar Panahi |
|
Comedy/Drama/Sport |
Won Silver Bear at Berlin Film Festival
|
| 2007 |
Ekhrajiha |
Masoud Dehnamaki |
Akbar Abdi |
Comedy / War |
Highest grossing Iranian movie of all time
|
| The Night Bus |
Kiomars Pourahmad |
Khosrow Shakibai, Mehrdad Sedighian, Mohammad-Reza Foroutan |
War |
|
| SANTOURI The Music Man |
Dariush Mehrjui |
Bahram Radan |
Drama |Crystal Simorgh Audience Award & Best Actor in a Leading Role (Bahram Radan) at Fajr Film Festival |
|
| 2008 |
Football Under Cover |
David Assmann, Ayat Najafi |
|
Documentary |
|
| As Simple as That |
Reza Mirkarimi |
|
|
Won the Golden George at the 30th Moscow International Film Festival
|
| Nuclear Iran |
ali hoseinpoor - hojjat baqaee |
|
Scientific documentary |
Attendance at Documentary film contest
|
| The Song of Sparrows |
Majid Majidi |
Reza Naji |
Drama |
|
| 2009
|
No One Knows About Persian Cats |
Bahman Ghobadi |
|
|
Competing in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
|
| Tardid |
Varuzh Karim-Masihi |
Bahram Radan, Taraneh Alidoosti |
|
Won Crystal Simorgh for Best Film in 27th Fajr Film Festival
|
| Seyghalan |
Hojjat Baqaee-Bagher Yekta |
Ali Hoseinpoor |
|
Appreciation from the Governor of Gilan - Mayor of Soomehsara - Ministry of Iran Interior - Ministry of Iran Agriculture
|
| About Elly |
Asghar Farhadi |
Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini |
Drama |
Iran's official selection to compete at the 82nd Academy Awards in the field of Best Foreign Language Film. Won Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlin film festival
|
| The White Meadows |
Mohammad Rasoulof |
Mohammad Shirvani |
Drama |
AsiaAfrica Special Jury Prize for Feature Film and Muhr AsiaAfrica Award for Best Actor (Hassan Pourshirazi) at Dubai International Film Festival, Golden Seashell Award at San Sebastián International Film Festival
|
Cinema of Iran