Homayun Payvar

Movies

What's the Time In Your World?
Director of Photography
A woman comes back from Paris to her country after a long time. She meets a man that she hardly knows, but he knows a lot about her life.
Chaplin Today: 'The Kid'
Camera Operator
This documentary is featured on the two-disc Chaplin Collection DVD for "The Kid" (1921), released in 2004.
هفت پرده
Cinematography
Four young men come together to solve their financial Problems.
Taste of Cherry
Director of Photography
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
The Survivors
Cinematography
During the war a field hospital is bombard. A group of red crescent helpers bring an injured soldier to take him to the behind lines. But it is not easy at all and in the way they face many difficulties.
Life, and Nothing More…
Director of Photography
After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.
First Graders
Cinematography
A documentary film about a boys school in Iran. The film shows numerous, funny and moving interviews of many different young pupils of this school summoned by their superintendent for questions of discipline. The man is not severe, but clever and fair. He teaches loyalty, fellowship and righteousness to these boys. Besides these interviews, we see scenes of this school’s quotidian life.