
            Ali takes his little sister Zahra's shoes to the shoemaker to be repaired, but loses them on the way home. The siblings decide to keep the predicament a secret from their parents, knowing that there is no money to buy a replacement pair and fearing that they will be punished. They devise a scheme to share Ali's sneakers: Zahra will wear them to school in the morning and hand them off to Ali at midday so he can attend afternoon classes. This uncomfortable arrangement leads to one adventure after another as they attempt to hide the plan from their parents and teachers, attend to their schoolwork and errands, and acquire a new pair of shoes for Zahra. Zahra sees the shoes on a schoolmate's feet, and follows her home, but the two soon become friends.Ali enters a high-profile children's footrace in the hope of receiving the third prize of a new pair of sneakers. He accidentally places first and wins another prize instead. The film ends with Zahra finding out that she will not get a new pair of shoes, but there is a quick shot of their father's bicycle at the end of the movie that shows what appears to be the red shoes Zahra had been focusing on earlier and another pair of white sneakers, presumably for Ali, whose old sneakers were torn from so much use. The film ends with the final shot showing blisters on Ali's feet. Some versions include an epilogue revealing that Ali eventually achieves the larger-scale success of having a racing career.
    

Children of Heaven

The Song of Sparrows


            It is winter in Teheran. Lateef is 17. He works in a building construction managed by MEMAR, the site foreman. Lateef's job is to serve tea and prepare food for the workers with whom he is always quarrelling. The workers come from all parts of Iran. Some workers are Afghans refugees from war torn Afghanistan. They have no identity card and are employed illegally as cheap labor. When the labour inspectors show up, the Afghan workers must hide.
As the story starts, an Afghan worker, NAJAF, falls from the building and breaks his leg. He is taken to the hospital. The next day, SOLTAN, another Afghan worker, brings in RAHMAT, Najaf's son, who is around 14 to replace his father. Memar soon realizes that Rahmat is not fit for this hard work and decides to switch the jobs between Rahmat and Lateef. Lateef is furious, threatens Rahmat, tries to sabotage his work and spies on him. One day, by looking through the door where Rahmat works, he is totally shocked to discover that Rahmat is a girl. As he is watching her combing her hair, he finds himself in a strange state and surrounded by unusual sounds.
From there on his attitude changes completely, he becomes protective, helpful and gradually desperately in love with Rahmat. While Rahmat does not express herself verbally at all, with time she seems to respond to this love. During a surprise visit of the labour inspectors, they find themselves face to face with Rahmat. She panics and runs away as they chase her through the city streets. Lateef runs after them, struggles with the inspectors while Rahmat flees. Lateef is beaten up and taken to the police station. Now Memar has to pay a fine, comply with the law and lay off all Afghans.
Lateef can't bear Rahmat's absence and decides to locate Soltan to get some news of her. He goes to the village where the Afghans live, walks around, meets an enigmatic cobbler and ends up in the courtyard of a shrine near a graveyard where Afghan families are gathered for a local milk ceremony. He inquires about Soltan but gets no clues. Among the Afghans in the courtyard, stands Rahmat with girl clothes. She notices Lateef, stares at him for a while before leaving the ceremony. Lateef is not aware of her presence. The next day on the road he finds Soltan and learns that Rahmat works in the village near the river. Lateef rushes there to find Rahmat in a pitiful state, working with other women at carrying heavy stones from the river. He is distressed and wants to find a way to help her out of that ordeal.
He gets all his accumulated wages from Memar and hands them to Soltan asking him to pass them on to Najaf. They agree to meet the next day at the shrine after Najaf has given the money to Najaf. The next day at the shrine, instead of Soltan, it is Najaf who shows up to inform Lateef that Soltan has gone to Afghanistan. He tells Lateef that Soltan came to him and offered him some money he had borrowed from someone. He also tells Lateef that he has refused the money and has advised Soltan to keep it for himself and use it to leave immediately to Afghanistan where he had a life and death issue in the family. Lateef is shocked and worried.
He gets even more worried the next day when he overhears a conversation in Najaf's house that Najaf is himself now faced with family problems in Afghanistan as his brother has just been killed in the war. He also hears that Rahmat's real name is BARAN. Lateef goes back to the river to find Baran, exhausted, now carrying logs of woods out of the river in an atmosphere reminder of a war field. Powerless in front of the hardship she is going through, he returns to the construction site in a state of depression. The next morning, Najaf on his crutches is in the construction site to meet Memar. Lateef overhears Najaf begging Memar without success to lend him some money.
Lateef takes a desperate measure to get money. He goes and sells the only valuable things he still has, his identity card. When he brings the money to Najaf, it is to learn that thanks to this money, Najaf and his family are returning to Afghanistan. Lateef is overwhelmed by this news and finds refuge in the shrine. There, in a state of anguish and despair, he hears coming from all around him the same sounds he heard when he saw Baran the first time. He surrenders to his fate.
The next day in a dreamlike atmosphere, while helping Najaf to load the truck with the house effects, Lateef, now with a serene look, is finally face to face with Baran. Through eyes contacts and physical proximity they exchange their love. As Baran covers herself and walks to the truck, her shoe gets stuck in the mud. Lateef gets on his knees, takes the shoe out of the mud and hands it to Baran so she can wear it and leave. The truck takes Baran away. Left alone, in the empty place, Lateef stares at the footstep in the mud left by Baran's shoe and smiles while the rain covers it. [http://www.cinemajidi.com/baran/synopsis.html]
    

Baran

The Willow Tree


            Set in strife-torn Kashmir, Harud is the story of a frayed family, struggling to stay together as they deal with the loss of a son.Stifled by a sense of raging impotence, Rafiq, a young man attempts to escape Kashmir by crossing the border into Pakistan. His endeavour fails and he is forced to return home to the haunting deadweight mood of his family. Rafiq 's brother, Tauqir, has been missing for four years. He is possibly dead. Fatima, their mother has faced excruciating years of uncertainty about her missing son's fate, she relentlessly presses on in her search, even if only to find succour in burying him.Rafiq returns home dispirited, to a listless existence with no plans or prospects for the future. He spends his days in a haze - unmotivated and unfocussed. He finds occasional solace in the company of his friends, especially lshaq, who dreams of making it big as a singer in a reality television show.Life continues on in this way, until one day, during another routine military search at the .house, Rafiq discovers his brother's old camera. The camera contains a half used roll of film.His curiosity piqued, Rafiq develops the film. Along with photographs of tourists, he finds pictures of a brother and sister. He learns the sister Shaheen too has a missing brother. Goaded by a desire to connect with Shaheen, in an unexpected turnabout Rafiq agrees to accompany his mother to the monthly meeting of The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP). Here, he catches sight of Shaheen and instantly forms a distant, unspoken empathy with her. Meanwhile, a series of chance encounters has resulted in a new job for Rafiq. As the office boy to a dare- devil Press photographer, Rafiq steps into his brother's shoes and finally begins to make peace with his absence.As his son's life does a long awaited volte-face, back home, the father Yusuf sinks into a vortex of darkness. A traffic policeman, Yusuf is suffocated by the inefficacy of his job, on the one hand, and the ceaseless violence on the streets of Kashmir on the other. Yusuf's sanity reaches breaking point.One night, late, there is a knock on Rafiq's door. Rafiq's parents are suspicious - at that late hour, a visit can only mean a militant looking for shelter. Rafiq assures them it is a friend. It is indeed Ashraf, one of the group of friends who made it across the border. He has returned a militant. Unconvinced by his son's assurances, fearing the loss of another son, Yusuf wanders out in search of help. His delirious, unpredictable behavior invites suspicion. There is a' shoot out. A bullet finds its mark.
    

Autumn


            
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