In a parched badland village that looks like the end of the world, Solan is the only teacher. After years of enduring the poorly paid temporary job, he holds one modest dream - to become a full-time teacher and to live in a proper house with his mother. But everything begins to unravel with the death of the benefactor who had funded the school’s meal program.

Muhammad: The Messenger of God is an 2015 Iranian film directed by Majid Majidi. The story revolves around the childhood of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The film marks Iran's biggest-budget production to date and is the first part of the planned trilogy on the life of the Prophet. Barring a few scenes filmed in South Africa, the majority of the filming was done at a colossal set created in the city of Qom near Tehran. The film was officially announced in October 2011 and its filming was completed by 2013. The cinematography is done by Vittorio Storaro and film score is composed by A. R. Rahman. The film was selected for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Oscar ceremony in 2016, but was excluded from the short list.

A boy and his sister are abducted from the streets of Tehran and sold into slavery.

十多岁的少年Mehrollah（Hassan Sadeghi）在父亲死后，勇敢地挑起了家庭重担，他自信通过自己的双手可以令母亲（Parivash Nazarieh）和三个妹妹过上好日子，为此他不计刻薄的老板再三刁难，然而当他带着挣到的钱和礼物回到家时，发现母亲已瞒着他嫁给一名警察（Mohammad Kasebi）。 Mehrollah使出许多办法，想令母亲回心转意，但母亲更多是为几个孩子长远的生活打算，谈不拢的情形下，Mehrollah开始了同警察继父的对抗，甚至偷走了他的警枪来到曾打工的城市，此举引来两人对抗的升级。

埃米尔（艾萨·安哈尔 Ishaan Kapoor 饰）是一个整日里游手好闲的小混混，一天，为了躲避警察的追捕，埃米尔躲进了姐姐工作的洗衣房，姐姐包庇埃米尔的行为被她的老板发现了，老板竟然以此为把柄威胁姐姐想要对她不轨。埃米尔一怒之下袭击了老板，导致老板重伤入院。如果老板死亡，那么埃米尔将因为过失杀人罪而面临牢狱之灾，为了避免这一情况的发生，埃米尔不得不留在医院里，贴身照顾自己的仇人。 老板的妈妈（沙拉达 Sharada 饰）得知儿子住院，于是带着两个孙女来到医院探望，这下可好了，埃米尔需要照顾的人又多了三个。祖孙三人的到来虽然给埃米尔带来了很多麻烦，但在处理这些麻烦的过程中，埃米尔也逐渐领悟了人生的真谛。

On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.

The story of 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to make fast money. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find hidden treasure underground. He recruits his gang, but first, to gain access to the tunnel, the children must enroll at the Sun School, a charitable institution that tries to educate street kids and child laborers, close to where the treasure is located.

2008 film by Majid Majidi

The story revolves around a blind boy named Mohammed who is released from his special school in Tehran for summer vacation. His father, shamed and burdened by Mohammed's blindness, arrives late to pick him up and then tries to convince the headmaster to keep Mohammed over the summer. The headmaster refuses, so Mohammed's father eventually takes him home.

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.