Director: Abbas Kiarostami, Dariush Mehrjui, Jafar Panahi

Cast: Reza Kianian, Leila Otadi, Ramzali Dadvar, Sadegh Damyar, Hossein Eskandari

Farsh-e Irani is a 2007 Iranian documentary omnibus film featuring fifteen short films by fifteen of Iran's most celebrated directors, each exploring the Persian carpet as a living artifact of culture, history, and daily life. The film was produced by Iran's National Carpet Center in collaboration with Farabi Cinema Foundation.

What is Farsh E Irani about?

Fifteen Iranian filmmakers each contribute a short work unified by a single subject: the Persian carpet. Rather than approaching the subject through a single lens, the anthology unfolds as a mosaic of perspectives — some lyrical, some observational, some intimate. Weavers at their looms, traders in the bazaar, a carpet spread across a family room, patterns stitched over lifetimes: each segment illuminates how deeply the carpet is woven into the rhythms of Iranian life. The result is an episodic portrait of a craft that carries within its knots the geography, symbolism, and memory of a civilization.

Cast & crew

The film gathers fifteen directors under one project, with Abbas Kiarostami, Dariush Mehrjui, and Jafar Panahi among the contributors — three figures who have shaped Iranian cinema across several decades. The cast across the segments includes Reza Kianian, Leila Otadi, Ramzali Dadvar, Sadegh Damyar, Hossein Eskandari, Yoones Farzaneh, Melika Janesari, and Shabna Moghaddam, drawn from Iran's established theatrical and film acting community.

Context & significance

The Persian carpet is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of Iranian craft, yet for many in the diaspora it carries a deeply personal resonance — a pattern on a grandparent's floor, a wedding gift carried across a border, a familiar geometry that signals home. This omnibus brings together voices from across Iranian cinema to reflect on that object collectively. For viewers outside Iran, the film offers both a document of the craft's living practice and a gathering of major Iranian directors working in a shared register. At 117 minutes across fifteen segments, it functions as both cultural record and a sampler of Iranian directorial voices in the mid-2000s.

Where & how to watch

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