Rakhshan Banietemad Filmes

The emergence of the Coronavirus disease in late 2019 and its rapid spread throughout the world in 2020 made an indelible impact upon countless...

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...

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

Aboard the top deck of a cruise ship, Baran, a young wealthy girl, notices a native boy who is dancing joyfully to beating drums. Baran arrives at a...

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

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

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