Rakhshan Banietemad Movies

This documentary is about Eskandar Firouz, a distinguished Iranian conservationist, and former Director of the Department of the Environment in Iran.

Bani-Etemad's documentary short was made during the months before last year's controversial elections in Iran. Filming a diverse coalition of women's...

Sebastian, a Dutch man, runs a hotel in Yazd. ‌ He is interested in Iran and has made this his second home.

Stories of Iran’s past and present intersect in Rakhshan Banietemad’s reflective, absorbing and personal portrait of how political life...

Angels in the House of Sun remains one of Rakhshan Banietemad’s most articulate critiques of the treatment of women in contemporary Iranian...

A searing documentary about the homeless people and shantytown dwellers of Tehran that has been banned.

A compassionate portrait of the Chain of Hope charity organisation, which treats underprivileged children from all over Iran.