Kiarash Anvari

The Pot and the Oak

After finding out that he has no sperm and can't impregnate his wife, an Iranian man suffers an existential crisis.

Féminin, Masculin

In the male dominated society of Iran, Farahnaz Shiri, the first female bus driver in Tehran, has made her own little society in her bus. In Iran there are different sections for men and women on public buses. Women should enter buses from the back door, which is separated from men’s entrance, and should sit or stay in a limited zone at the end of the buses which is separated from men’s zone. But in Mrs. Shiri’s bus everything is vice-versa. She is the governor and the only law maker of her own little society. In her bus, men must enter from the backdoor entrance and must sit or stay in the limited zone at the end of the bus. Mrs. Shiri is struggling to prove herself in this society and resisting a series of injustices that she faces as a woman in the Iranian society.

...and I Was Born to Sweet Delight!

At four o'clock early in the morning a strange voice talks on an answering machine and announces a surprise, a cardboard box is at the front door, "filled with voices and pictures of another time and place". This time is November 1977, two years before the revolution in Iran. The experimental short film in Beckett style jumps from one time zone to another.