Majid Eskandari

Movies

The Lizard
Makeup Artist
The satirical commentary on clergymen in post-revolutionary Iran. While in prison, petty criminal Reza (Parviz Parastui) comes across a clergyman, sparking a plan for escape. Reza dons his new acquaintance's clerical robes and makes a bid for freedom. He soon learns that being a clergyman brings little respect from the public. Reza travels to the outlying villages, from where he plots to escape the country. However, his plans must be put on hold when the villagers accept him into their community and expect him to perform religious duties. Will Reza's prison break transform him into an unlikely pillar of the community?
The Silent Flight
Makeup Designer
A Zanjani pilot receives a mission to identify enemy bases at the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war. He gets wounded and his plane is shot. He manages to enter Iran's border and lands at an abandoned airport in Abadan. He successfully lands the plane on the runway that local Basiji forces have cleared for him, but ...
The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood
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A film about an anthropologist and his daughter during three periods: before, during, and after the Iranian Revolution. The daughter works in the accident & emergency department of a hospital, which is never empty of suicidal patients. The reason behind each suicide attempt is different, especially before and after the revolution. Looking for a reason to live, one of the suicide patients falls in love with the anthropologist’s daughter.