2000s
| Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Notability |
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| 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 | |
| Blackboards | Samira Makhmalbaf | Drama | Entered into the 2000 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Unruled Paper | Nasser Taghvai | Khosrow Shakibai, Hadyeh Tehrani, Jamileh Sheikhi, Jamshid Mashayekhi | |||
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | ||
| SANTOURI The Music Man | Dariush Mehrjui | Bahram Radan | Drama | Crystal Simorgh Audience Award & Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Bahram Radan ) at Fajr Film Festival | |
| 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 | ||
| Tardid | Varuzh Karim-Masihi | Bahram Radan, Taraneh Alidoosti |
Won Crystal Simorgh for Best Film in 27th Fajr Film Festival |
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| About Elly | Asghar Farhadi | Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini | Drama | Iran's official selection to compete at the 82nd Academy Awards in the field of Best Foreign Language Film. Won Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlin film festival | |
| The White Meadows | Mohammad Rasoulof | Mohammad Shirvani | Drama | Asia/Africa Special Jury Prize for Feature Film and Muhr AsiaAfrica Award for Best Actor (Hassan Pourshirazi) at Dubai International Film Festival, Golden Seashell Award at San Sebastián International Film Festival |
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