
Directing
Shahram Mokri
Born 1978-08-17 · Kermanshah, Iran
Shahram Mokri (Born 17 August 1978) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He graduated from Soore University with a Bachelor of Film and Television in Directing. He has also worked as an editor on television films, series, short films and documentaries. His film, Fish & Cat was shown at the 70th Venice International Film Festival and won the special orizzonti award for innovative content. He was nominated for the 2013 Asia Pacific Screen Award for Achievement in Directing for Fish & Cat. For his short film The Dragonfly Storm, Mokri won Best Director at the 2007 Noor Iranian Film Festival.
Acting credits
NR"Invasion To Interpretation" is the title of the performance lecturer that Nasim Ahmadpour performed in 2018 during the Fajr International Theater Festival in the off-stage section and in the conference hall. This video has been designed on the sidelines of the making and showing of the film "Invasion" Directed by Shahram Mokri.
Invasion To Interpretation
2018
NRThis film is the story of a girl named Sima who always takes refuge in the cinema when faced with life crises. The film's narrative progresses in two simultaneous timelines: one is Sima's personal story, and the other is the story of the film she watches. At a certain point, the boundary between Sima and cinema is erased.
Neither Reality, Nor Fiction
2025
NRA Documentary about the New Wave movement in Iranian cinema.
New Wave
2016
Behind the camera
6.5Someone’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.
Invasion
2017
6.5Someone’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.
Invasion
2017
5.0A director is remaking a classic Iranian film in Tajikistan. The studio armorer is worried that the gun they intend to use is not a prop gun, and fears the consequences. A young woman arrives at the location insisting that she be given an audition. At the same time, In another part of town, Sara, recently recovered from a car crash, suddenly realises that her accident was all part of a conspiracy. These people’s destinies inevitably intertwine.
Black Rabbit, White Rabbit
2025
5.0A director is remaking a classic Iranian film in Tajikistan. The studio armorer is worried that the gun they intend to use is not a prop gun, and fears the consequences. A young woman arrives at the location insisting that she be given an audition. At the same time, In another part of town, Sara, recently recovered from a car crash, suddenly realises that her accident was all part of a conspiracy. These people’s destinies inevitably intertwine.
Black Rabbit, White Rabbit
2025
5.5During the uprising to overthrow the Shah's regime in Iran, protestors set fire to movie theatres to protest Western culture. Forty years later, four people decide to re-create the past by burning down a theatre.
Careless Crime
2021
5.5During the uprising to overthrow the Shah's regime in Iran, protestors set fire to movie theatres to protest Western culture. Forty years later, four people decide to re-create the past by burning down a theatre.
Careless Crime
2021
6.4A group of students travel to a remote region to participate in a kite-flying event. Next to their camp by the lakeside, they find a restaurant with cooks that treat the students with suspicion. Bizarre events lead to a complicated situation, from which the students cannot escape.
Fish & Cat
2013
6.4A group of students travel to a remote region to participate in a kite-flying event. Next to their camp by the lakeside, they find a restaurant with cooks that treat the students with suspicion. Bizarre events lead to a complicated situation, from which the students cannot escape.
Fish & Cat
2013
5.5Two blind jewel thieves, a young man who can’t succeed at killing himself, a love-struck police officer and two female morgue attendants find their lives interconnected when an unusual fish is set free and a charmed ring is moved.
Ashkan, the Charmed Ring and Other Stories
2009
5.5Two blind jewel thieves, a young man who can’t succeed at killing himself, a love-struck police officer and two female morgue attendants find their lives interconnected when an unusual fish is set free and a charmed ring is moved.
Ashkan, the Charmed Ring and Other Stories
2009
NRA Documentary about Kianoush Ayari by Shahram Mokri
That is the Question ...
2008
8.0A looping tale of possibilities, in which a bride-to-be repeatedly wakes up after being hit on the head and cannot remember whom she is supposed to marry. Realities shift, and the limits of truth become ambiguous.
Ando-C
2007
7.0A series of people enter an apartment to find a woman dead from an accident. Each thinks they caused her demise, and the story unwinds backwards through time to reveal an unlikely chain of cause and effect.
The Dragonfly Storm
2002
7.7In this single-take ode to the paintings of M.C. Escher, several students' days intersect in logically impossible ways.
Limits of the Circle
2005