Valeh is an anti-Shah activist in pre-revolutionary Iran. He is constantly on the move, aware that he is being monitored by the Savak, the Shah's secret police. Eventually he is captured and tortured in prison. to extract inform- ation about his organisation. Meanwhile his comrades try to coerce him into dying for the cause. Valeh simply wants to live and be re-united with his wife and new baby. The director based the film on his own experiences as a leftist Islamic radical who became disillusioned with political activism and extremism of any kind.

Episode one: The Happy child :
The fourth child of a poor couple, whom live in Halabiabad (a dispossessed place in Tehran), is born. In the maternity they tell them that if the child does not have good nutrition he would become paralyzed as well. The couple, who have 3 retarded and handicapped children- as a result of family marriage-know that because of poverty they cannot take care of their newborn child and they are worried that he would encounter the same fate as the other three children. They decide to make their child prosperous and they take him to a sanitarium for handicapped and retarded children but very soon the bitter future of the child comes into the mother’s mind. Then they decide to put the child in the way so that a good person takes the child with him and makes him prosperous but no one would take the child, but poor people and for making money. Eventually they leave the child by the swimming pool of an aristocratic house and leave, unaware of the fact that the child ends up in the sanitarium of handicapped and retarded children once again.
Episode two: Birth of an old woman :
A young boy, who has psychic signs in his behavior and words, nurses his old and handicapped mother, who does not even have the ability to talk, with patience and comprehension in an humble house. One day when he leaves the house towards the bank to get his monthly pension, he has an accident with a vehicle and the passersby steal his money. The young boy, who is worried about his mother’s conditions escapes from the hospital with a bandaged head, while the old woman has died in his absence. But in the house he still treats her mother as if she is alive.
Episode three: The peddler :
A group of smugglers who have unlawful activities under the cover of selling second hand clothes, take a peddler, who was their accomplice and witness of their crime, with themselves by force to kill him. The young peddler, who has arguments with the leader of the group over his life all the time, is thinking of escaping from this predicament, but all these escapes are only in his mind…

Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, his fiancée stands by him as together they challenge both the authority of family and state to lead their own lives.

An Iranian filmmaker and his son travel to Israel to investigate a religion that originated a hundred and seventy years ago. Youth from all over come to Haifa to join this religion, and those who serve in the gardens that surround the holy places develop peace-loving attitudes through their interactions with nature.
The filmmaker shares with his son the idea that if the Iranian people had adopted a peaceful religion, Iran would not be preparing a nuclear attack on Israel, but the son believes that all religions tend to bring about destruction. As a result of these arguments, father and son separate from one another and pursue their own paths.

用“大器晚成”来形容导演柏雅米可能有点误导（他2002年才 36岁）。1980年代末期负笈多伦多攻读电影，回国后一直没有拍片机会，蛰伏近十年才拍成首部作品，先后在东京和意大利都灵电影节夺奖，第二作《暗票》，在威尼斯轻取最佳导演奖。影片最难得的是用了最深入浅出的手法，直踩政治禁区：揭官僚、论民主。
驻守海边的士兵奉命在大选日接载政府派来的官员收集选票，没想到来人竟是个年青女子，而且活力和脚力十足，对每个选民采取紧迫钉人策略，誓要把选票拿到手，过程风趣感人、紧张浪漫，结局——无论剧情抑影像——更叫你目瞪口呆，把伊朗电影又带上另一层楼。 (第26届香港国际电影节)

男友走了，钱也没了，年轻单亲妈妈与好姊妹急于找工作，那知遇着两个以拍戏为名却另有企图的光棍。为求赚快钱，她将六岁女儿交托修道院老妇，四人合作偷狗骗财，却阴沟里翻船……渗着意大利明媚春光的温润，以现代母女隔空呼应《单车窃贼》 （1948）的战后父子，社会低下阶层的困顿竟无 二致。伊朗大师级导演莫森·玛克玛尔巴夫以童眼看世界，早慧女孩对世情似懂非懂，却道破了爱情、宗教与人性的虚妄。

Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how to feed her baby. She cannot provide milk for her baby as her own hunger is preventing her from lactating. Nogreh, however, aspires toward a life in a western styled democracy. Although the Taliban are no longer in power in Afghanistan, traditional forces are still active in the country. Nogreh often displays signs of rebellion, such as wearing a pair of white pumps instead of the traditional slipper beneath her burqa. But mostly, Nogreh wants to be educated. Without her father's knowledge, Nogreh is attending a secular girls school. Ultimately, she wants to become President of Afghanistan. With the help of a Pakistani refugee who likes her as a woman, Nogreh tries to understand exactly what forces led to current world leaders being elected, those forces which she wants to emulate.

2014 film by Mohsen Makhmalbaf

An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh, while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping the two clean the rug. This young woman belongs to the clan whose history is depicted in the design of the gabbeh, and the rug recounts the story of the courtship of the young woman by a stranger from the clan.

马克马巴夫用异样的电影语言说出了伊朗电影电影近百年的历史，片中的一些镜头如散文诗一般优美，也有一些隐喻和象征，非常值得一看的伊朗艺术电影！　精彩的幻想片，只可惜DVD的画质一般。。

四十岁的中年男人突然发现时间的流逝是如此之快，而自己却总在毫无意义的事情中虚度着光阴，他感到一种痛苦，于是约好四个情人来到自己的舞蹈学校......

影视详情：
伊朗国宝级大师马克马巴夫重生“寓言”作品！
当你踩过这片大地，蚂蚁的尖叫是生命最后的呐喊。
有神论者和无神论者坠入情网，婚后，他们背起行囊，带着椅子，到印度蜜月旅行，寻找传说中的放牛圣人。一路人，他们遇见用眼神停住火车的老者、把自己当成桌椅的少女、浴火重生的男人；当地人说，要见到圣人，必须成为谋杀者，踩着蚂蚁尸体前进。种种奇遇颠覆过往知识与经验，他们开始将行囊一件件丢下，最后连椅子都遗留在沙漠中。唯有蒙上双眼、捂住耳朵，才能遇见心中渴求的真理，漫漫恒河前，爱情不过是绚丽幻影。
本片是伊朗国宝级大师马克马巴夫年过半百后，以“反智”之姿对世界回眸一望所粹取出的“生死寓言”。他用行囊代表人出生后背负的包袱，椅子代表个人在世界中的地位价值，当舍弃所有后，留下的会是最纯净的美丽？还是最赤裸的伤痛？这是一场探索心灵的印度游记，也是追求生命真谛的恒河洗礼。和阿巴斯齐名的马克马巴夫，1996年创立‘马克马巴夫电影之家’，除了致力电影创作教学外，他们一家人都是优秀电影人才。以《苹果》一片轰动坎城影展的女儿莎米拉更成为伊朗新一代电影导演代言人。马克马巴夫更希望电影之家能持续以独特观点创作充满生命力的电影。
关于电影：
一个男人想在沙漠中和上帝对话，但当他开始演讲时，沙漠中所有生物都因为他与上帝谈话的方式受到惊吓，逃之夭夭。这是马克马巴夫2005年拍摄的8分钟短片《椅子》（The Chair）的剧情。《心灵印记》是马克马巴夫以此片为故事原型，用同样的男女主角，在同样的地点—印度—拍摄。除了延续哲学议题，片中更对上帝存在与否展开激辩；旅人将身上的‘包袱’以及随身携带的‘椅子’由扛起到抛下的过程，更是马克马巴夫对生命本质的重新思考。
马克马巴夫曾表示，他热爱印度，能够在印度拍电影是他长达15年来的梦想，但迂腐的官僚体系却让他困难重重，虽有丰富的创作资历，但为了得到拍摄许可，还是得准备一大堆纸本资料以应付政府的繁文缛节。在拍片过程中，他甚至自嘲，如果可以用一个空间就能把整部电影拍完，那印度绝对是拍电影的完美之地。

A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.

A girl reaches the age of nine and is supposed to act as a grown woman according to her family. A girl participates in a bike race against the will of her husband. An elderly woman decides she wants to buy all the things she always wanted but could never get.

After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two Iranian sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.

The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit promoter who sells tickets to watch Nasim ride a bicycle continuously for a week. The promoter brings in sick and aged spectators, haranguing them to find hope in Nasim's strength. Aided by his son, who feeds him as he rides, Nasim grinds out the days and shivering nights. Local officials believe this may be a plot and Nasim may be a spy; they try to sabotage him as do those who bet he won't finish the week. Will desperation alone get Nasim the money? Is any triumph an illusion?

A semi-autobiographical account of Makhmalbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.

Khorshid, a blind child growing up in Tajikistan, is constantly distracted by music and sounds. This frequently causes him to be late to his job as an instrument tuner even though he runs the risk of being fired at a time when his family is in danger of being evicted from their house.

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.