Hamid Ghavami

Filmes

The Return
Camera Operator
A Yazidi refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan is home tomore than 20,000 refugees, many of whom are victims of terrorist attacks by ISIS. Shilan is a young Kurdish nurse who volunteered to take care of them. Every tent in the camp has a story, and Shilan takes the responsibility of hearing the refugees out, empathising with the pain they are suffering. One day Shilan hears about a tent where a woman is refusing to eat her food or have any sort of contact with the outside. She decides to take action.
About 111 Girls
Cinematography
About 111 Girls is a satirical road movie about a pompous but empathetic government bureaucrat sent by the president himself to investigate the case of 111 young women threatening to jump off a cliff together in the tiny far-off corner of Iranian Kurdistan. Due to wars, bad economy and politics, there seem to be no perspective husbands around, and these young women are protesting the conditions that have left them spinsters. The bureaucrat, accompanied by an assistant and a little boy who seems to be both guide and interpreter leads the search to find the women.
Tartarugas podem Voar
Producer
Em uma vila de curdos no Iraque, na fronteira entre o Irã e a Turquia e pouco antes do ataque americano contra o país, os moradores locais buscam desesperadamente uma antena parabólica, na intenção de ter notícias via satélite sobre a proximidade da guerra.