Mohammad Shirvani

The film "Zygote" directed by Parham Sarkashiki and Saeed Mohammadi was made in collaboration with one of the founders of digital cinema in Iran "Mohammed Shirvani" and it criticizes film festivals in totalitarian regimes with a parodic expression and reminds the important point that art should be in Stand against the power and always be a reformer and a fighter. The character of this film, played by Mohammad Shirvani, is called "Peel", a creature with a human body and a camera-like head. Peel, along with a seahorse, a blind mouse and a bat, are assigned to the largest egg on the planet, which belongs to a legendary bird. The name is "Simorgh", an egg that a film festival called Fajr claims to have. The film "Zygote" tries to expose the mechanism of government festivals with a political approach.

The film "Zygote" directed by Parham Sarkashiki and Saeed Mohammadi was made in collaboration with one of the founders of digital cinema in Iran "Mohammed Shirvani" and it criticizes film festivals in totalitarian regimes with a parodic expression and reminds the important point that art should be in Stand against the power and always be a reformer and a fighter. The character of this film, played by Mohammad Shirvani, is called "Peel", a creature with a human body and a camera-like head. Peel, along with a seahorse, a blind mouse and a bat, are assigned to the largest egg on the planet, which belongs to a legendary bird. The name is "Simorgh", an egg that a film festival called Fajr claims to have. The film "Zygote" tries to expose the mechanism of government festivals with a political approach.

Mohammad Shirvani, Iranian Alternative filmmaker makes a video in co-operation with six blind camera women which is a self-portrait of the same six women.

Mohammad Shirvani, Iranian Alternative filmmaker makes a video in co-operation with six blind camera women which is a self-portrait of the same six women.

The story of 6 deaf young men who go to Luna Park to get crazy.

The story of 6 deaf young men who go to Luna Park to get crazy.

The film introduces us to a father and his son; the older man is obese, unwell, and oppressive in his dealings with the younger, who is also deaf and mute. A series of cryptic, spellbinding episodes reveals a tyrannical paternalism at work that has long since hardened into a closed circuit of mutual pain. Enter a mysterious and beautiful woman of unspecified identity, who becomes an agent of change, embodying both an evolved consciousness and the power of the female as a rebuke to bankrupt patriarchy.

The film introduces us to a father and his son; the older man is obese, unwell, and oppressive in his dealings with the younger, who is also deaf and mute. A series of cryptic, spellbinding episodes reveals a tyrannical paternalism at work that has long since hardened into a closed circuit of mutual pain. Enter a mysterious and beautiful woman of unspecified identity, who becomes an agent of change, embodying both an evolved consciousness and the power of the female as a rebuke to bankrupt patriarchy.

Telescope is picture of a filmmaker who retreats from filmmaking for a while and turns into a single father.

Six urban women reveal their family recipes in a film that, at first glance, may look like an introduction to local cuisine, but which turns into a surprising exploration of relationships in modern Iranian society.

Six urban women reveal their family recipes in a film that, at first glance, may look like an introduction to local cuisine, but which turns into a surprising exploration of relationships in modern Iranian society.

Six urban women reveal their family recipes in a film that, at first glance, may look like an introduction to local cuisine, but which turns into a surprising exploration of relationships in modern Iranian society.

Six urban women reveal their family recipes in a film that, at first glance, may look like an introduction to local cuisine, but which turns into a surprising exploration of relationships in modern Iranian society.

Six urban women reveal their family recipes in a film that, at first glance, may look like an introduction to local cuisine, but which turns into a surprising exploration of relationships in modern Iranian society.

A radiology of Tehran bay homeless and migrant civil workers.

Rahmat travels to a host of islands in a vast salt pan in order to collect the inhabitant's tears for an unknown purpose. He is joined on his mysterious journey by a young boy searching for his father. As their travel nears its end, a potent critique of the Iran's political leadership emerges.

This film was seven blind women's self portrait with the limitation of not employing any sighted individual's and was filmed with light weight digital cameras

Is it death? Or life is going on?

Where is Lily? There is a portrait and biography of "Mohammad Reza Darvishi" who has been researching the music of the regions for almost 25 years and has written valuable reference books about it. In this film, Mr. Ahmad Reza Ahmadi, Ehsan Naraghi, Kayhan Kalhor and also the photographer Reza Motarian are always present with him.

Where is Lily? There is a portrait and biography of "Mohammad Reza Darvishi" who has been researching the music of the regions for almost 25 years and has written valuable reference books about it. In this film, Mr. Ahmad Reza Ahmadi, Ehsan Naraghi, Kayhan Kalhor and also the photographer Reza Motarian are always present with him.

Where is Lily? There is a portrait and biography of "Mohammad Reza Darvishi" who has been researching the music of the regions for almost 25 years and has written valuable reference books about it. In this film, Mr. Ahmad Reza Ahmadi, Ehsan Naraghi, Kayhan Kalhor and also the photographer Reza Motarian are always present with him.

A political documentary in which the filmmaker speaks with American hostages and Iranian hostage- takers after 29 years from the event.

The film follows Mir Qanbar, an elderly Iranian man, as he campaigns in the country's presidential election.

The film follows Mir Qanbar, an elderly Iranian man, as he campaigns in the country's presidential election.

The film follows Mir Qanbar, an elderly Iranian man, as he campaigns in the country's presidential election.

The film follows Mir Qanbar, an elderly Iranian man, as he campaigns in the country's presidential election.

A closed circuit camera for traffic control in Tehran reacts to the wanderings of a single woman on a high-way.

One of the first digital Persian underground films

Pooneh is stuck in the elevator. A man outside is trying to help her. They exchange numbers and start to talk. This is going to be something more than a rescue mission.

Pooneh is stuck in the elevator. A man outside is trying to help her. They exchange numbers and start to talk. This is going to be something more than a rescue mission.

Pooneh is stuck in the elevator. A man outside is trying to help her. They exchange numbers and start to talk. This is going to be something more than a rescue mission.

Pooneh is stuck in the elevator. A man outside is trying to help her. They exchange numbers and start to talk. This is going to be something more than a rescue mission.

Pooneh is stuck in the elevator. A man outside is trying to help her. They exchange numbers and start to talk. This is going to be something more than a rescue mission.

The last intimate night of a young couple before the husband leaves for the frontline.

A laborer father has no choice but to take his mentally retarded son to an asylum. But will it solve his problems?

Mohammad would not be taken to the cinema, because he didn't get his parent's permission.

Mohammad would not be taken to the cinema, because he didn't get his parent's permission.

A laborer father has no choice but to take his mentally retarded son to an asylum. But will it solve his problems?

An old mother tries to persuade beautiful girls on the streets of Tehran to marry her only son.

selected by critics international Cannes film festival 1999