Director Asghar Farhadi's first idea for the movie was the image of a man washing his father, who had Alzheimer's. He built the rest of the film around that scene.
A Separation (2011) is the first Iranian film to win an Oscar 🏆 !.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014. The best Iranian vampire skater film you didn't know you were missing. The soundtrack doesn't miss either.
everyone go watch leila's brothers if you like movies about families loving and fighting each other, socio-political commentary about iranian society, flawed, funny and glorious working class characters and possibly the most interesting female lead character i have watched on cinema in a while. perhaps it's best characteristic is that there are no lingering shorts playing voyeur on the privations visited on the characters due to poverty and eventually american sanctions on iran.