Team

Filmography

I'm from University of Tehran, Director Mehdi Ganji, 17 min, 2019
(Producer) produced by University of Tehran Cultural Affairs

Green Soil, Director Shirin Barghnavard, 9 min, 2019
(Producer) Produced by Keep Children in School (KCIS)

From Fooman to Fanni, 24 min, 2018
(Researcher and director) produced by University of Tehran

Touran Khanom, 91 min, 2018
(Co-director with Rakhshan Banietemad & Producer) Karestan Documentary Film Series

Poets of Life, Director Shirin Barghnavard, 73 min, 2017
(Producer) Karestan Documentary Film Series

Puzzleys, Director Mehdi Ganji, 70 min, 2017
(Producer) Karestan Documentary Film Series

Mother of the Earth, Director Mahnaz Afzali, 52 min, 2017
(Producer) Karestan Documentary Film Series

MAHAK: A World She Founded, Director Mohsen Abdolvahab, 57 min, 2017
(Producer) Karestan Documentary Film Series

Friends at Work, Director Mohsen Abdolvahab, 49 min, 2017
(Producer) Karestan Documentary Film Series

Flax to Fire, Director Bahram Azimpour, 52 min, 2017
(Producer) Karestan Documentary Film Series

Tale of a Home, Tale of a Land, 16 min, 2016
(Researcher and director) produced by The Fanni Alumni Association, University of Tehran

A Drop is an Ocean if..., 18 min, 2016
(Researcher and director) produced by The Fanni Foundation, University of Tehran

80 Years of Glory, 20 min, 2016
(Researcher and director) produced by College of Engineering Schools, On the Occasion of the University of Tehran's 80th Anniversary

A Lifetime in an Hour, Director Rakhshan Banietemad, 50 min, 2014
(Producer)

All My Trees, Director Rakhshan Banietemad, 51 min, 2014
(Producer)

MAHAK My Home, 12 min, 2014
(A teamwork with Rakhshan Banietemad, Mohsen Abdolvahab, Amir Esbati), Produced by International Society for Children with Cancer (ISCC)

A Tale Foretold, (Oud Concert by Negar Bouban), 80 min, 2014
(Director and Line Producer), Producer Negar Bouban

Keep Children in School, 6 min, 2013
(A teamwork with Rakhshan Banietemad, Mohsen Abdolvahab, Amir Esbati), Produced by Keep Children in School

Six Centuries, Six Years, 82 min, 2014
(Researcher, script writer, director and producer)

Tehran-Boston Engineers: 50 Years of Work, 41 min, 2012
(Researcher, script writer and director), Produced by Tehran-Boston Engineers (TBE)

This Is Not A Film, 75 min, 2011
(Co-script writer, co-director and co-producer with Jafar Panahi)

Lady of the Roses, 52 min, 2008
(Researcher, script writer, director and producer)

Foot on the Ball, 40 min, 2007
(Researcher, director and line producer), produced by Sport Department of Tehran Municipality

Ostad Motahari’s House-Museum, 18 min, 2007
(Director and line producer), produced by Art and Cultural Organization of Tehran Municipality

Home Is in Our Past, 57 min, 2005
(Director and co-editor with Hamed Mohammad Taheri)

Back Vocal, 40 min, 2004
(Researcher, script writer, director and producer)

Off Beat, 45 min, 2004
(Researcher, script writer, director and producer)

Documentary film based on the Play Mourning for Siavash, 30 min, 2003
(Director and line producer), produced by Dramatic Arts Center

Recorded play Mourning for Siavash, 130 Min, 2003
(Director and line producer), produced by Dramatic Arts Center. (Play writer and director: Pari Saberi)

The River Still Has Fish, 43 min, 2001
(Researcher, script writer, director and producer)

Stamp, 52 min, 2001
(Researcher, script writer and director), produced by I.R.I. Post Company

The first Presence, 5 min, 1999
(Researcher, script writer, director and producer), produced by UNICEF

Video clip Stars, 7 min, 1997
(Script writer and director) produced by I.R.I.B Sepah Group

Video clip Motherland, 7 min, 1997
(Script writer and director) produced by I.R.I.B Sepah Group

Video clip The Story of Khorramshahr, 6 min, 1997
(Script writer and director) produced by I.R.I.B Sepah Group

The Copper fish, 24 min, 1997
(Researcher, script writer and director), from Stories of Art Documentary Series

Patteh, 31 min, 1997
(Researcher, script writer and director), from Stories of Art Documentary Series

Smell of Rose, 25 min, 1996
(Researcher, script writer and director), from Stories of Art Documentary Series

Van-Yakad Tile, 28 min, 1996
(Researcher, script writer and director), from Stories of Art Documentary Series

Hasan-bodo, 29 min, 1996
(Researcher, script writer and director), from Stories of Art Documentary Series

Water and Mirror, 29 min, 1996
(Researcher, script writer and director), from Stories of Art Documentary Series

Mina, 31 min, 1996
(Researcher, script writer and director), from Stories of Art Documentary Series

My Father Was A Calico Maker, 30 min, 1996
(Researcher, script writer and director), from Stories of Art Documentary Series

Banner (from Children of Iran Documentary Series), 25 min, 1996
(As researcher, script writer and director)

 

Awards and Honors

For Karestan Documentary Film Series:

- Diploma of Honor of 'Children’s Research Institute, Tehran, Iran, December 2018

- Special Cinema Section Award, 2nd  Davood Rashidi Commemorative Award, Tehran, Iran, August  2018

 For Touran Khanom:

- Diploma of Honor of Child Book Council's, Tehran, Iran, March 2018

For Mother of the Earth:

• Best Documentary, from 9th London Iranian Film Festival, United Kingdom, November 2018
• Special Jury Award, 2^nd  Health Film Festival, Tehran, Iran, August  2017
• Special Jury Award, 6^th International Urban Film Festival, Tehran, Iran, August  2017

For Poets of Life:

• "Best Documentary" from 8^th London Iranian Film Festival, United Kingdom, November 2017
• "Honorable Mention" from 16^th Innsbruck Nature Film Festival, Austria, October 2017
• "National Prize" from 6^th International Green Film Festival, Tehran, Iran, September 2017
• Special Jury Award, 14^th Green Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea, May 2017

For Friends at Work:

• Best Documentary Film, 4^th   Technological and Industrial film and Photo Festival (Farda), aslauyeh, Iran, April 2017

For Six Centuries, Six Years:

• Best Documentary Film, 12^th Action On Film (AOF) International Film Festival, L.A., USA, September 2016
• Best Documentary Film, 6^th London Iranian Film Festival, UK, November 2015
• Best Music by Jury,  The Archaeology Channel (TAC) International Film and Video Festival, USA, May 2015
• Received the following 3 awards from First AHVAZ International Science Film Festival, February 2015:- NETPAC (Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema) Jury Award for Best Film, International Jury Omar Khayyam Award for Best Film, and The University Professors Jury Award for Best Film.
• Candidate for receiving Best Film award, received the Festival’s trophy and Honorary Diploma for Best Research, 8^th International Cinema Verite Festival; Tehran, December 2014
• Candidate for receiving 3 awards for Best Documentary Film, Best Directing and Best Research, as well as receiving Honorary Diploma for Best Sound from 16^th Grand Ceremony of Iranian House of - Cinema, September 2014
• Jury’s Special Prize for Documentary Film Section, 32^nd  Fajr International film Festival, Tehran, February 2014

 

For This is Not a Film: 

• Best Documentary Award, a Special Award and nominee for Best Film Not in the English Language, 16^th Annual Online Film Critics Society (OFCS), USA, December 31, 2013
• Nominee for Best Documentary, 11^th Gold Derby Film Awards, USA, 2013
• Best Experimental Film Award and runner-up for Best Non-Fiction Film, 47^th National Society of Film Critics’ Awards, USA, January 2013
• Best Documentary Award and 9^th place for Best Film Not in the English Language, 10^th International Cinephile Society (ICS) Awards, USA, February 2013
• Nominee for receiving Best Picture, Best Documentary and Best Foreign Film Awards, 2^nd Georgia Film Critics Association (GFCA) Awards, February 2013
• 3^rd place for Best Non-Fiction Film, 78^th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, USA, December 2012
• Best Documentary Award and 5^th place for Best Film, Indie wire Critics Poll (ICP) Awards, USA, November 2012
• Best Documentary Feature Film Award and 5^th place for Best Film, Village Voice Film Poll Awards, USA, November 2012
• Shortlisted as one of 15 films eligible for Best Documentary Feature at the 85^th Academy Awards, USA, December 2012
• UNESCO Award for Best Documentary, Sofia International Film Festival Awards, Bulgaria, March 2012
• Best Picture Not Released in 2011 Award, 9^th International Cinephile Society (ICS) Awards, USA, January 2012
• Muhr AsiaAfrica Documentary Award, 8^th Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), UAE, December 2011
• Nominee for Amnesty Award, 10^th Copenhagen International Documentary Festival (CPH:DOX) Awards, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2011
• Nominee for Best Film, 25^th Mar del Plata Film Festival, Argentina, November 2011
• Official Selection and Special Screening, 64^th Cannes Film Festival, France, May 2011

For Lady of the Roses:

• Best Documentary Film Award, 11^th Hafez Cinema-Television Ceremony, Tehran, March 2009
• Golden Trophy of Honor by the Young Jury, Second Biennial Shahid Avini Grand Prize Dedicated to Best Documentary Films of the Year, May 2009
• Diploma of Honor, Second Biennial Shahid Avini Grand Prize Dedicated to Best Documentary Films of the Year, May 2009
• Best Documentary Film in the eyes of the jury, the Society of the Critics and Writers of Iranian Cinema, 2^nd International Documentary Film Festival of Iran “Cinema Verite,” October 15 – 20, 2008
• Special Prize of the Festival’s Secretary, 2^nd International Documentary Film Festival of Iran “Cinema Verite,” October 2008
• Candidate for receiving 3 awards: Best Documentary Film, Best Directing, and Best Photography, Twelfth Grand Ceremony of Iranian House of Cinema, September 2008

For Off Beat:

• Best Documentary Film, 8^th Grand Ceremony of Iranian House of Cinema, Tehran, September 2004

For The River Still Has Fish:

• Candidate for Best Documentary Film, 6^th Grand Ceremony of Iranian House of Cinema, September 2002
• One of Selected Works of Iranian Cinema After the Islamic Revolution, published by House of Cinema, Feb. 2009

For The Story of Khorramshahr:

• Best Video Clip, 7^th Holy Defence Film Festival, Hamedan, October 1998 

For My Father Was A Calico Maker:

• Best Director in Educational Film Section, 27^th Roshd International Film Festival, Tehran, Nov. 1997

 

Other Activities in Cinema

• Artistic Director and Line Producer: The Flaming Torch (Video recording of Radif Iranian traditional music played on Kamancheh by Ali-Akbar Shekarchi), 2015
• Director’s Advisor and Line Producer: The Mirrors Recital, Director Rakhshan Banietemad, 2014
• Director’s Advisor and Line Producer: The Concert of the Lords of Secrets, Director Rakhshan Banietemad, 2014
• Director’s Advisor and Line Producer: The Other Side of Mirrors, Director Rakhshan Banietemad, 2014
• Director’s Advisor and Line Producer: Don’t Stay in the Shadow, Director Bahram Azimpour, 2013
• Director’s Advisor: Changar, Director Mohsen Alikhani, 2013
• Line Producer: Im Bazar der Geschlechter, Director Sudabeh Mortezaei, Austria, 2010
• Line producer: Children of the Prophet, Director Sudabeh Mortezaei,  Austria, 2006
• Production Manager: Osama, Director Sedigh Barmak, Afghanistan, 2002
• Assistant Director, Production Manager: Two Angels, Director Mohammad Haghighat, 2002
• Sound Editor: Afghan Alphabet, by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 2001
• Sound Editor: How Samira Made the Blackboard, Director Maysam Makhmalbaf, 2000
• Assistant Director, Production Manager and Still Photographer: Kandahar, Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 2000
• Assistant Director, Production Manager: The Day I Became A Woman, Director Marzieh Meshkini, 1999
• Assistant Director: The Blackboard, Director Samira Makhmalbaf, 1999
• Sound Editor: Zinat, One Special Day, Director Ebrahim Mokhtari, 1999
• Assistant Director: Iran Is my Home, Director Parviz Kimiavy, 1998
• Co-Sound Recordist: Milikan, Director Minoo Kiani, 1997
• Sound Recordist: Apple, Salt, Grapes, Director Arman Najm, 1997
• Sound Recordist: The Old Man and the Earth, Director Ata Salmanian, 1996
• Sound Recordist: Wind Ruined the School, Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1995
• Sound Recordist: Gabbeh, Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1995
• Sound Recordist: Godarlandar Dam, Director Ebrahim Mokhtari, 1994
• Assistant Sound Recordist: Salam Cinema, by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1994
• Assistant Director: Shahid Rajaei Power Plant, by Ebrahim Mokhtari, 1993
• Assistant Sound Recordist: Adult’s Game, by Kambozia Partovi, 1991
• Cooperation with Iranian Television’s (I.R.I.B) Channel 1’s Social Group between 1990 and 1995 in making several T.V. programs

 

Member of Jury

• Jury Member, LUCAS International Festival for young Lovers, Cinema Without Borders, Sep. 2019
• Jury Member, 17^th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema, France, Feb. 2011
• Selection Committee Member, 1^st London Iranian Film Festival, England, Nov. 2010
• Jury Member, Feature film section, 12^th Grand Ceremony of Iranian House of Cinema, Tehran, September 2008
• Jury Member, International Film Competition, 28^th  International Festival VGIK, Moscow, Russia,  November 2008
• Selection Committee Member, Documentary Film Section, 10^th  Grand Ceremony of Iranian House of Cinema, Tehran, September 2006
• Jury Member, Documentary Film Section,  9^th  Grand Ceremony of Iranian House of Cinema, Tehran, September 2005
• Jury Member, Documentary Film Section, 7^th Grand Ceremony of Iranian House of Cinema, Tehran, September 2003