Jalal Saed Panah

Movies

The Exam
First Assistant Director
Rojin is a young Kurdish-Iraqi woman about to take the university entrance exam. Rojin's unhappily married older sister Shilan decides to help her pass at any cost, hoping to give her a more emancipated life. Thus, the sisters inevitably become entangled in a huge network of corruption that connects all parts of society.
The Exam
Production Designer
Rojin is a young Kurdish-Iraqi woman about to take the university entrance exam. Rojin's unhappily married older sister Shilan decides to help her pass at any cost, hoping to give her a more emancipated life. Thus, the sisters inevitably become entangled in a huge network of corruption that connects all parts of society.
Silence
Production Design
Nine-year-old Bahar recently lost her hearing. Due to lack of school resources, she is forced out. This alienation is the beginning of a series of desperate actions, culminating in an attempt to heal herself.
Memories on Stone
First Assistant Director
Kurdish childhood friends Hussein and Alan want to produce a film about the genocide of Kurdish people in Iraq, the Anfal campaign in 1988. They learn that, to achieve veracity by the means of cinema and to face their own identity, it's worth putting everything on the line - even their own life.
Qandil Mountains
Costume Supervisor
Against the violent yet stunning backdrop of the Qandil Mountains, a film that asks the most basic yet painful of questions about war, love, and lost ones.
Qandil Mountains
Assistant Director
Against the violent yet stunning backdrop of the Qandil Mountains, a film that asks the most basic yet painful of questions about war, love, and lost ones.
Half Moon
First Assistant Director
Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus, denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho, which will only add to the difficulty of the undertaking, as it is forbidden for Iranian women to sing in public, let alone in the company of men. But Mamo is determined to carry through, if not for the gullible antics of the bus driver.
Turtles Can Fly
Assistant Director
Turtles can fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iran border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
آب یخ
Writer
Perhaps better than anyone, the value of water is appreciated by an old man whose droplets are tied to the fabric of his life to spin the life cycle of living things.
آب یخ
Director
Perhaps better than anyone, the value of water is appreciated by an old man whose droplets are tied to the fabric of his life to spin the life cycle of living things.