Director: Roxana Samadi | Documentary | Germany | 2024

Woman, life, freedom! After the death of a young Iranian woman in Teheran, thousands take to the streets – in Germany too. Portrait of a protest which brought different generations together. On 13th September 2022, Jina Mahsa Amini was arrested by the Iranian vice squad because she was wearing her headscarf wrongly. Three days later, she died in custody. Her death set off a howl of protest all over the world. Many exiled Iranians, who fled the new regime in Tehran in the 1970s, protested – but also 2nd generation German-Iranians like Jasmin Shakeri, Pegah Ferydoni, Natalie Amiri and Enissa Amani. Together they took to the streets to help the old country find freedom.

Regie: Fatima Geza Abdollahyan – Documentary, 82 min, Germany, 2010

Sara Khoshjamal‐Fekri is the first female athlete from Iran to ever qualify for the Olympic Games. Her discipline is Taekwondo. KICK IN IRAN shows her arduous journey to Beijing 2008 ‐ a  persistent struggle for self‐determination and recognition in a society based on strict religious laws.

Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi, Political Drama | Germany | 2024

The imprisoned Iranian women’s rights activist Maryam is allowed to meet her family for seven days. Her husband and children beg Maryam to flee with them instead of returning to prison but she has not yet made her decision.

Director: Alfonso Maestro, Tillmann Orion Brehmer – Sitcom, Episode à 25 min., colour, Germany

Half triplets, the Ex Next Door and the most German man in the world. A hypocritical car company and Satan in green garb. A not-so-fictional town, a global village. – Welcome to FRIEDEFELD

Director: Isabelle Stever – Drama, 105 min, Germany 2022

To concentrate on her ballet career, Nadja let her son, Mario, grow up with her mother and hardly ever saw him for years. When she meets him again at a family party, an affection develops that goes far beyond motherly love.

Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi – Animation, Family, 81 min, color, Germany 2021

Sometimes it’s better to listen to your little sister! When space nerd Peter discovers one night that his little sister Anne has disappeared, he realizes that her crazy story of talking June Bug Zoomzeman was not just made up. Peter finds himself on a fantastic journey to the moon to free his sister from the clutches of the sinister Moon Man, together with the incredible Nature Spirits – and realizes that he underestimated his little sister quite a bit!

A modern retelling of the classic German children’s tale from the director of the successful PETTSON AND FINDUS film series.

Director: Hossein Pourseifi – Drama, 90 min, color, Germany 2019

1979: The “Islamic Revolution” sweeps across Iran. The East-German chemist Beate (37) follows her husband Omid (44) – an Iranian dissident living in the German Democratic Republic – to his home country, filled with love and hope. However, the initial sense of optimism vanishes, as life for Beate and her daughter Sarah (8) turns into hell. With despotism, violence, and religious doctrines on the rise, Iran steadily becomes a ruthless dictatorship, and Beate und Omid must make a fateful decision. Based on true events.

Director: Ali Soozandeh – Drama/Animation , 96 min, color, Germany/Austria 2017

Tehran is a city full of restrictions and religious laws where any type of crime leads to harsh punishment. Yet, the lust for life in young women and men who seek to live in freedom has made it an everyday sport to avoid these strict prohibitions. The hypocrisy and contradictions of the system are expressed with tenderness, humour and humanism.

Director: Frank Geiger, Mohammad Farokhmanesh – Live-action film, 3D-Animation, 86 min, Germany 2019

LITTLE GERMANS combines animation and documentary to tell the story of children that are born into right-wing families. From a young age on they are conditioned to hate everything that seems foreign. How does it feel to grow up in a world where empathy is subsidiary and „the nation“ stands above everything? And who do those „little Germans“ become once they grow up?

Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi – Action, Comedy, 96 min, Germany, Austria 2014

THE MAMBA is a top international terrorist. A deadly fighter, sniper, bomber, and master of deception. Hossein Sarivi is a good husband and works at a biscuit factory. Their mutual resemblance is uncanny, but have never met, until now.