| Year |
Title |
Director |
Actors |
Genre |
Notability |
| 2000 |
...Va man dar khoshbakhti-e shirin be donya amadam! (aka ...and I was born to sweet delight!) |
Kiarash Anvari |
|
Short film |
Official selection in international competition section of 48th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen |
| The Circle |
Jafar Panahi |
|
Drama |
Won Golden Lion at Venice |
| The Day I Became a Woman |
Marzieh Meshkini |
|
Drama |
|
| Smell of Camphor, Scent of Jasmine |
Bahman Farmanara |
Bahman Farmanara |
Drama |
|
| A Time for Drunken Horses |
Bahman Ghobadi |
|
Drama |
Won Caméra d'Or at Cannes |
| Djomeh |
Hassan Yektapanah |
|
|
Won Caméra d'Or at Cannes |
| 2001 |
ABC Africa |
Abbas Kiarostami |
|
Documentary |
Screened at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival |
| Baran |
Majid Majidi |
Hossein Abedini |
Drama |
Won the Freedom of Expression Award at the National Board of Review (USA) |
| Kandahar |
Mohsen Makhmalbaf |
Nelofer Pazira |
Drama |
Won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival |
| Raye makhfi |
Babak Payami |
|
Comedy |
|
| Unruled Paper |
Nasser Taghvai |
Khosrow Shakibai, Hadyeh Tehrani, Jamileh Sheikhi, Jamshid Mashayekhi |
|
| 2002 |
Barefoot to Herat |
Majid Majidi |
|
Documentary |
Won FIPERSCI Prize |
| Marooned in Iraq |
Bahman Ghobadi |
|
Documentary Drama |
Won François Chalais Award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival |
| Noora |
Mahmoud Shoolizadeh |
|
Drama / Fiction film |
Won Best Film award of Taormina Film Festival in Italy |
| Ten |
Abbas Kiarostami |
|
Documentary Drama |
Entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival |
| To Stay Alive |
Dariush Mehrjui |
|
|
Screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival |
| 2003 |
Abadan |
Mani Haghighi |
Shahrokh Foroutanian, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Fatemeh Motamed Aria, Hedieh Tehrani |
Drama |
|
| Crimson Gold |
Jafar Panahi |
|
Drama |
Screenplay by Abbas Kiarostami |
| Five |
Abbas Kiarostami |
|
|
Screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival |
| At Five in the Afternoon |
Samira Makhmalbaf |
|
|
Premiered at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival
First film shot in Kabul after invasion |
| To Have or Not to Have |
Niki Karimi |
|
Documentary |
Niki Karimi's directional debut |
| 2004 |
20 Fingers |
Mania Akbari |
Bijan Daneshmand |
Drama |
Shot in several long takes on a DV camera |
| Duel |
Ahmad Reza Darvish |
Pejman Bazeghi |
Drama / War |
Biggest budget in the history of the cinema of Iran |
| Marmoulak |
Kamal Tabrizi |
Parviz Parastui |
Comedy |
|
| Mehman-e Maman |
Dariush Mehrjui |
Golab Adine, Amin Hayai |
Comedy / Drama |
Written by Houshang Moradi Kermani |
| 10 on Ten |
Abbas Kiarostami |
|
|
Screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival |
| Turtles Can Fly |
Bahman Ghobadi |
|
Drama / War |
The first film made in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein
Won Golden Seashell at San Sebastian International Film Festival |
| 2005 |
Dame sobh |
Hamid Rahmanian |
Hossein Yari |
Drama |
award-winning |
| Maxx |
Saman Moghaddam |
Mohammad Reza Sharifinia, Pegah Ahangarani |
Musical comedy |
|
| One Night |
Niki Karimi |
|
Drama |
Nominated for Prix un certain regard at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival |
| Requiem of Snow |
Jamil Rostami |
|
Drama |
The first film to represent Iraq in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Oscars |
| So Close, So Far |
Reza Mirkarimi |
|
Drama |
Won Crystal Simorgh for the Best Film at the 24th Fajr Film Festival
Selected to represent Iran in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Oscars |
| Tickets |
Abbas Kiarostami
Ken Loach
Ermanno Olmi |
|
Comedy / Drama |
|
| The Willow Tree |
Majid Majidi |
Parviz Parastui |
Drama |
|
| 2006 |
A Few Days Later |
Niki Karimi |
|
Drama |
Script won the Rotterdam festival's Hubert Bals Fund |
| Offside |
Jafar Panahi |
|
Comedy/Drama/Sport |
Won Silver Bear at Berlin Film Festival |
| 2007 |
Ekhrajiha |
Masoud Dehnamaki |
Akbar Abdi |
Comedy / War |
Highest grossing Iranian movie of all time |
| The Night Bus |
Kiomars Pourahmad |
Khosrow Shakibai, Mehrdad Sedighian, Mohammad-Reza Foroutan |
War |
|
| 2008 |
Football Under Cover |
David Assmann, Ayat Najafi |
|
Documentary |
|
| The Song of Sparrows |
Majid Majidi |
Reza Naji |
Drama |
|
| 2009 |
| No One Knows About Persian Cats |
Bahman Ghobadi |
|
|
Competing in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival |
