Mohammad Shirvani Movies

selected by critics international Cannes film festival 1999

The mood in the summer villa in northern Iran, near the Caspian Sea, is exuberant. Milad and Armin gather with friends for a weekend shaped by...

A passionate declaration of love for the cinema and poetry of Iran, which also offers a frank view of the precarious situation for critics of the...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Is it death? Or life is going on?

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

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

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

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

The film criticizes film festivals in totalitarian regimes with a parodic expression and reminds the important point that art should be in Stand...

A young woman goes on a journey to find a shrine she has accidentally come across while travelling with her husband a few years ago, to pray for the ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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