6. The Paternal House
A family’s honor killing haunts multiple generations in vet helmer Kianoush Ayari’s disappointingly flat “The Paternal House.” Lacking the power of his earthquake drama “Wake Up, Arezoo!” the pic is a standard-issue sudser without enough of a pro-woman message to propel it beyond home territories, though Iranian censors were unhappy with the director’s cut and threatened to boycott Venice.