Levon Haftvan

Levon Haftvan

Nascimento : 1966-03-26, Tehran, Iran

Morte : 2018-03-08

História

Levon Haftvan, artistic director of Lemaz Productions & Artists Management, is a stage director, actor and producer from Canada. He works with various International performing arts festivals and venues as artistic adviser. Haftvan holds directing degrees from University of Tehran and Russian Academy of Theatrical Arts. He is fluent in Farsi, Armenian, Russian and English languages.

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Levon Haftvan

Filmes

Dirty Job
Farhad, an unemployment law student who is busy with alcohol sales, decides to migrate to the United States. Farhad wins U.S. Green Card Lottery so travels to Turkey with his wife, Elham and Navid; his son, for the issued diversity visa. During this trip, Farhad is informed of a mass alcohol poisoning during a party where he had provided their alcohol consumption for last time, it had led to death of some people, and the hospitalization of others in critical condition of blindness. This news causes his mental confusion to have a sense of guilt. When Elham gets notified of the story, is shocked and starts going off on Farhad then she decides to return to Iran. Rather, an unexpected incident destroys totally his life.
Invasion
Warehouseman
Someone’s been murdered and the police is investigating in a stadium, the crime spot. They have arrested the murder suspect and they just try to find out the murdering procedure, however, it is quite complicated and the friends of the murdered person are not to be very collaborative.
Kupal
Dr. Ahmad Kupal
“Kupal” is the story of a hunter and a taxidermist, called “Dr. Ahmad Kupal”. On the last day of the year, moments before the turn of the year, he faces an unexpected challenge.
Dracula
An addict is captured by a Dracula. Dracula's wife prevents him from killing the victim. The addict suggests a remedy which turns Dracula's life upside down.
A Romantic Robbery
Two old-timer thieves, Kamal and Jamal who are released from prison after years, go to their accomplice - Essi - to get their share from their last robbery. But Essi has invested the money on a film and has played in it which was a complete failure. Despite their propensity for robbery, these two old men, have to do it again. But they have become too old to rob in a traditional way.
The Man Who Became a Horse
An old man living with his only daughter tries to keep her close to him by any means, although she is married. With longing for what was, the daughter becomes attached to the one thing she has left of her deceased mother, a horse. Jealous of her affections, the old and stubborn patriarch sets the horse free, leading to his daughter’s despair... This evocative and at times frightening power game is about isolation, vulnerability and how we can become too dependent on those we love.
Fat Shaker
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.
Parviz
Parviz
Parviz has as its increasingly horrifying anti-hero the 50-year-old hulk of a passive-aggressive bachelor son (theater director/activist Haftvan), whose free ride in life screeches to a halt when his miserly widowed father forms a plan to remarry.
In the Alleys of Love
We follow a young man reflecting on his life in this thought-provoking tale of childhood. Forced to flee the devastated village of Abadan with his family at the beginning of the war, the young man returns years later. As he surveys the ruins of his former homestead, he remembers how his family adapted to a new life, his boyhood escapades, and his first love. An elegant account of how war affects the lives of children, this drama is a must see.