Mohammadreza Farzad

Hollow

Hollow is an essayistic observation of life and death framed by a panopticon.

A Sense of Place

Six Iranian directors examine, one after the other, a place in Iran, France, or Germany. The places and the stories enter into a dialogue with each other and deal with living conditions in today's Iran, social and economic struggles, but also identities in exile, and places of longing.

Subtotals

Inspired by two stories by Gregory Burnham and Edward Lowe, this poetic and experimental essay film is a new look at the ill-fated relationship and human book with life and numbers.

Wedding: A Film

Wedding: A Film is a personal, poetic essay in which Mohammadreza Farzad tries to understand the institution and concept of marriage. Farzad does a survey of your levels; he plays his own wedding video over and over again to look for early signs of unhappiness in his marriage and a future divorce. He looks at other people’s wedding videos to investigate whether a happy wedding means, and is, synonymous with a happy marriage. The hunt for answers goes from the personal and empties into the issues of marriage function in society.

Mom

A Bosnian woman is released from prison after 13 years. She comes back home, where she finds her young son and his pregnant girlfriend. With luggage and flight tickets in their hands, they are up to travel to start a new life.

Revolutionary Memories of Bahman who loved Leila

It is 1978. Tehran is in bloodshed. The young Bahman falls in love with Leila, the sister of his martyred friend. Unrest in the streets, unrest in the hearts.

Blames and Flames

In 1978, on the verge of Islamic revolution, more than 130 cinemas burned down across Iran, including 28 in Tehran. Who set them on the fire? How and why? If movies can predict revolutions, does any revolution see the revenge of people unseen on the silver screens?

Into Thin Air

A short documentary film about the bloody massacre of innocent Iranian people in September 8 of 1978. It concentrates on less than a minute of horrifying footage of the bloody killing of people who were unaware of the official curfew, to find out more of the identity of the victims. 'Into Thin Air' can be seen as the moving and pathetic image-reading of any political massacre of innocent victims.