Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh

Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh

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Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh

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Farhad's Fridays
Himself
This documentary takes a view on the life of famous Iranian musician and singer, Farhad Mehrad, one of the most important figures of Iranian rock music in 20th century.
It was Night
Himself
Taking a view on the life of Iranian artist and political activist, Fereydoun Farrokhzad.
Guests of Hotel Astoria
Music
An Iranian couple (Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mohsen Marzban) declare themselves political refugees after police detain them on their way to Cuba.
Face of the Enemy
Original Music Composer
Face of the Enemy, a haunting psychological thriller, delivers a gripping emotional drama on the impacts of international terrorism- Years after his release from captivity as a hostage during the US embassy hostage crisis in Tehran, a former US intelligence officer comes face to face with one of his former Iranian captors in Los Angeles.
Parrot
Original Music Composer
Hashem and Bahman are two intimate friends who spend their time in the notorious neighborhood. One day there they meet a girl Tuti. Hashem falls in love with her and this is the beginning of the troubles for them.
Fish Die in Soil
Original Music Composer
Reza who is from a poor family and lives with his father in a rental room falls in love with a girl Nasrin who is from a rich family. Her father disagrees with this love and wants her to ...
Journey of the Stone
Producer
The story focused on a group of farmers who decide to stand up to their tyrannical landlord by rolling a gigantic stone from the top of a mountain with the intention of smashing his exploitative mills and production facilities to smithereens.
Wooden Pistols
Original Music Composer
Lives of children living near a train station changes when they watch a Western film on a newly arrived TV set...
Brief Spring
Director
A mother takes her lazy son out of the house to work, the boy is on his sightseeing while lying by the river, notices flowers that are on the water, the flowers come from a garden where a young girl is imprisoned by a demon.
Ghazal
Original Music Composer
The story of the "love" triangle of two brothers and a prostitute.
Oriental Boy
Music
The boys of the neighborhood are dividing into two groups to run a kite. The first groups are watching the kite happily but the other group try to take it down. The kite is flew away but the sorrow of that only leads the boys of the two groups to befriend each other.
Oriental Boy
Editor
The boys of the neighborhood are dividing into two groups to run a kite. The first groups are watching the kite happily but the other group try to take it down. The kite is flew away but the sorrow of that only leads the boys of the two groups to befriend each other.
The Rook
Music
The Rook made in 1974 is the establishment of sadeghi’s style in reference to Persian painting and miniature. The chess board act as witness to a game in progress. The players move their pieces until two kings remain and the game back to continue from the beginning which represent ongoing metaphor of political power games. The humorous piece of animation looks at the absurdity of war, politics and stance of society in between these notions.
The Deer
Music
Wounded by the police, a thief looks up his old friend in order to leave the proceeds of his theft with him. Instead, he finds that his friend is a drug addict. He sticks around to try and help his friend kick the habit; instead, both men are caught in a shootout with the police and...
Excrusion on a Bright Sunny Day
Original Music Composer
Gholamabbas lives in a house with his father and his old cook. The father is busy with his own small business, and the child is obsessed with the old man's stories, which he listens to at night after reading the Qur'an.
Hassani
Original Music Composer
The short movie "Hassani"
Never
Director
A little girl loves sheep, her dream is seeing a sheep come to life, a butcher does it for her and fills the child's heart with innumerable love.
The Curse
Original Music Composer
An old man who works for a landlord brings a young worker to paint the house for him. The old landlord is alcoholic and has a young wife and together they manage a ranch. Little by little ...
The Gate
Every gate opens to a new perspective, and every vision leads to a dream land. A land made with the creativity and imagination of a filmmaker. This film is a combination of a number of situations in which every child finds himself happily. In the end, there are questions that every child has to answer based on their imagination.
Strait
Original Music Composer
Ali Khoshdast is involved in a fight and accidentally kills a man. After a desperate flight from the revenge-seeking relatives of the victim, he takes refuge with his fiancée.
The Gate
Original Music Composer
Every gate opens to a new perspective, and every vision leads to a dream land. A land made with the creativity and imagination of a filmmaker. This film is a combination of a number of situations in which every child finds himself happily. In the end, there are questions that every child has to answer based on their imagination.
A Green Dot
Original Music Composer
A Green Dot
The Suitor
Original Music Composer
Mr. Khavari, a calligraphy teacher who is the tenant of an aristocratic family has fallen in love with their daughter. But the hand of fate is working against his heartfelt sentiments. Every time he find a chance to ask for the girl's hand, a rival crops up that marries the girl and make him a loser. But Khavari proves himself a persevering suitor...
Pari
Original Music Composer
Pari is Zackaria Hashemi's short film
Topoli
Original Music Composer
It is loosely based on the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and is the story of Topoli a young retarded guy who lives by his nephew Essi and their life.
Flower Storm
Original Music Composer
Sadeghi’s second film made in 1972, advances his style by accentuating on modern usage of Persian miniatures. The story gets along with the hippism ambience of 1970’s about peace. Flower Storm tells of the inhabitants of two towns who lives in peace and harmony until their kings start to fight over a bird they both have shot down while hunt-ing. War breaks out but children of the town during the night, substitute flowers for the cannon balls. The next day, there exists not a battle but flower storm.
Baluch
Music
Two gangster squads who smuggle antiques fight each other in Zahedan. The first squad's members manage to kill the members of the other squad. Two villains of them rape a woman Leila who is the wife of a man his name Baluch and escape to Tehran. He pursues them and shots them. While thinking that he had killed them, he surrender to the police and imprisoned for 12 years. When released from the prison he finds that they are not dead. He goes after them and kills both of them.
Release
Original Music Composer
SHORT FILM "RELEASE" BY NASSER TAHAVI
Protected Area
Original Music Composer
Ahmad Agha Shahr-e Farangi is facing a market slump. The existence of cinema and television has greatly reduced his customers. In order to earn a living, he goes to an unfamiliar village at the beginning of the protected area of Semnan province, which is not far from Tehran. Upon arrival, he encounters extreme poverty and sad stories in the village. The behavior of village’s children is not predictable for Ahmad Agha. Their fear of this stranger and his strange device does not prevent them from approaching it to arouse curiosity….
The Window
Original Music Composer
Sohrab is going from his city Abadan to work in his uncle's factory in Tehran. Sohrab meets a girl Taraneh who is pregnant. She with the help of Asghar Zhila wants to accused Sohrab of ...
The Peach Tree
Original Music Composer
The short movie "Peach Tree"
Dash Akol
Original Music Composer
Dash Akol is greatly respected in Shiraz as an honorable man who has lost his family's money through helping his friends. He has an enemy, however, named Kaka Rostam, a mean and spiteful person. Dash Akol, who is in his forties, falls in love with Marjan, daughter of the late Haji Samad, for whose estate he is the executor. But he keeps his love secret. One day a suitor asks for Marjan's hand, and Dash Akol considers it against his code of honor to refuse. On the night of the wedding, Dash Akol hands over responsibility for the family to the bridegroom. As he is leaving the house, however, Kaka Rostam is waiting for him and a fight ensues. Kaka Rostam stabs him in the back, but Dash Akol succeeds in killing him. On his deathbed, Dash Akol sends his parrot to Marjan with the confession of love he has taught it.
Dancer of City
Original Music Composer
Middle-aged Lompan, who owns a wood-cutting company, tends to love a dancer due to his wife's inattention. The dancer also falls in love with him and leaves her job.
Reza Motorcyclist
Original Music Composer
Reza Motori, who has feigned madness, escapes from an asylum and robs a factory, with the aid of a friend. Afterwards, a young writer, who looks exactly like Reza, visits the asylum in order to write about inmates. There he is mistaken for Reza and detained. Meanwhile, Reza assumes the identity of the writer. Reza falls in love with the writer's fiancée and decides to give up the money he has stolen from the factory, but his friends prevent him from doing so.
The Soil
Original Music Composer
After the death of the landlord of the village, his European wife demands the land of Baba Sobhan but his two sons who farm there are refusing. They promise to pay the rent on the right ...
The Ring-necked Dove
Original Music Composer
There is an old saying in Farsi, "if you catch a Toughi to keep, it will bring bad omens to the members of the family". ...And that's what happens to a very close nit family when Toghi is ...
Uncle Moustache
Original Music Composer
A lonely old man takes to terrorizing the kids who build a football pitch next to his house.
Goodbye, Friend
Original Music Composer
Three friends organize the burglary of a jewelry shop, but greed, betrayal, and revenge quickly overcome their friendship.
Gheisar
Original Music Composer
Gheysar returns home to find that his young sister has committed suicide and his older brother Farman got killed. When he finds that Aghmangol brothers are behind all of this decides to get revenge. His uncle advised him not to go after revenge but he begins to pursue them killing them one by one. Finally, when killing the last brother he himself is getting killed by the police.
The Roar of the Storm
Original Music Composer
A young fisherman lives a quiet life with his wife until a group of cameramen go to his village.
Come stranger
Original Music Composer
A young guy leaves his pregnant girlfriend and goes to Europe to study. The disappointed girl try to commit suicide but at last moments is saved by the brother of that guy. He marries her ...
The White Hell
Original Music Composer
A girl is abducted by criminals, and a young man happens to be aware of this kidnapping, pursues the criminals, and after several conflicts, finally frees the girl and arrests the criminals.
Utopia
Music
"Utopia" is dedicated to all the survivors of war who have shared the pain of their life stories with us . Moslem Mansouri