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.

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.

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。

The film follows a character known as The Cinematographer, who is looking for someone called Atieh (Future). As he calls out to her, he is magically transported back in time from the early twentieth century to the reign of Naser al-Din Shah in 19th century Iran. Captured by the Shah's guards, he shows films from the history of Iranian cinema to the Shah. The Shah is entranced and eagerly shows his family the apparently magical medium.

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?

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.

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.