Mohammad Shirvani

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 effortless closeness. The news that Bita is pregnant by Milad adds to the fragility of their relationship. The next morning, the hosts’ fathers arrive, each carrying their own fractures

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 Iran's political leadership emerges.

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 regime and shows the uncompromising daily struggle of Iranian women against their oppression.

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.

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

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 effortless closeness. The news that Bita is pregnant by Milad adds to the fragility of their relationship. The next morning, the hosts’ fathers arrive, each carrying their own fractures

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 effortless closeness. The news that Bita is pregnant by Milad adds to the fragility of their relationship. The next morning, the hosts’ fathers arrive, each carrying their own fractures

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 effortless closeness. The news that Bita is pregnant by Milad adds to the fragility of their relationship. The next morning, the hosts’ fathers arrive, each carrying their own fractures

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.

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

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

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

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.

One of the first digital Persian underground films

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

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

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

The film 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.

Is it death? Or life is going on?

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.

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.

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.

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

A radiology of Tehran bay homeless and migrant civil workers.