
Writing
Majid Barzegar
Born
1973-03-06 (53)
Place of birth
Hamadan, Iran
Known for
Writing
Credits
24 titles
Majid Barzegar is an Iranian film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer. He established his own film company Rainy pictures in 2005 with the aim of stimulating independent film production in Iran.
Known for
NRWorn down by a failing body and a father who has fallen into silence, Isaac is forced to choose between saving himself and remaining true to his conscience in a world where survival comes at a heavy price.
Psalms of Sorrow
2026
NRIt's Hasti’s birthday. She studies abroad and her parents in Iran want to congratulate her via Skype.
Not Yet
2016
6.5Mahi and Pouya are on a trip with friends. In the morning, they find with the dead bodies of their friends by carbon monoxide poisoning, and find out that they're the reason for their deaths.
Hamster
2023
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Dreamless Sleep
2020
7.0Jafar Panahi and fellow Iranian director Majid Barzegar take a 20-minute drive to Kiarostami’s grave, during which time “the two friends speak appropriately of cinema, but also censorship and festivals, police power and ideology.”
Where Are You, Jafar Panahi?
2026
6.9Nahal is around thirty and in her fourth month of pregnancy. During a routine check-up she learns that her baby has died and she now faces a curettage abortion in two days’ time. When she tries to address the subject, neither her mother nor her husband give her a chance to speak.
A Minor Leap Down
2015
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
NRA documentary about Bahram Beyzai (Persian: بهرام بیضایی; born 26 December 1938). He is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and ostād ("master") of Persian letters, arts, and Iranian studies.
Ballad of Bahram
2018
NRPolitical and Social Activities of Ahmad Qavam al-Saltanah, reflecting on his fourth term as Minister.
The Prime Minister
2016
Behind the camera
NRWorn down by a failing body and a father who has fallen into silence, Isaac is forced to choose between saving himself and remaining true to his conscience in a world where survival comes at a heavy price.
Psalms of Sorrow
2026
NRIt's Hasti’s birthday. She studies abroad and her parents in Iran want to congratulate her via Skype.
Not Yet
2016
6.5Mahi and Pouya are on a trip with friends. In the morning, they find with the dead bodies of their friends by carbon monoxide poisoning, and find out that they're the reason for their deaths.
Hamster
2023
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Dreamless Sleep
2020
6.9Nahal is around thirty and in her fourth month of pregnancy. During a routine check-up she learns that her baby has died and she now faces a curettage abortion in two days’ time. When she tries to address the subject, neither her mother nor her husband give her a chance to speak.
A Minor Leap Down
2015
5.8While supposedly taking mud baths in Korea, the paterfamilias of a family from Tehran’s Grand Bazaar dies of a sudden heart attack in Brive-la-Gaillarde. His wife and his oldest son travel to France to bring his body home and to investigate the circumstances of his death.
Carpet and Chaos
2016
NR"Mom", who , for her siblings is still the same "Nancy", lovely girl from Abadan, is a naughty and grumpy old woman for her sons, who travels by taxi, and in appearance is the biggest obstacle to her happiness.
Maman
2021
6.9Before dawn, seven passengers are making their way from Shahdad to Kerman on a side road. When one of the passengers is discovered dead, they haven't traveled very far. Instead of finding an ID, an address, or a phone when they search the dead man's body, they discover a lot of cash under his vest.
Cause of Death: Unknown
2023
5.5Mr. Safari, an 80-year-old pensioner, lives alone and without direction. When his son, living abroad, tries to arrange for his elderly father to visit him, Mr. Safari becomes dangerously obsessed with a local female travel agent who is hired to help. Co-written by acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi (Crimson Gold, Taxi), this provocative story delivers a quietly powerful statement about loneliness and those who get left behind in contemporary Tehran.
A Very Ordinary Citizen
2015
5.5Mr. Safari, an 80-year-old pensioner, lives alone and without direction. When his son, living abroad, tries to arrange for his elderly father to visit him, Mr. Safari becomes dangerously obsessed with a local female travel agent who is hired to help. Co-written by acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi (Crimson Gold, Taxi), this provocative story delivers a quietly powerful statement about loneliness and those who get left behind in contemporary Tehran.
A Very Ordinary Citizen
2015
6.8Parviz has as its increasingly horrifying anti-hero the 50-year-old hulk of a passive-aggressive bachelor son (theater director/activist Haftvan), whose free ride in life screeches to a halt when his miserly widowed father forms a plan to remarry.
Parviz
2012
6.8Parviz has as its increasingly horrifying anti-hero the 50-year-old hulk of a passive-aggressive bachelor son (theater director/activist Haftvan), whose free ride in life screeches to a halt when his miserly widowed father forms a plan to remarry.
Parviz
2012
Mr Ahmadi gets on an inter-city minibus for a relatively straightfoward trip. The mileu of arrivals and departures brings his journey new meaning.
Mr Ahmadi and a Simple Journey
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7.2Sina, a sixteen years old teenager from today's Tehranian middle class, experiences a new life on the verge of his parents' divorce. Added to his very real sense of having been abandoned is the threat of a local thug who believes that Sina owes him a considerable sum of money. Things become even more complicated when Sina, taking advantage of his parents' constant absence, allows an older girl, Nahid, to temporarily move in with him. Sina finds himself with the prospect of making choices that threaten his body and soul.
Rainy Seasons
2010
7.2Sina, a sixteen years old teenager from today's Tehranian middle class, experiences a new life on the verge of his parents' divorce. Added to his very real sense of having been abandoned is the threat of a local thug who believes that Sina owes him a considerable sum of money. Things become even more complicated when Sina, taking advantage of his parents' constant absence, allows an older girl, Nahid, to temporarily move in with him. Sina finds himself with the prospect of making choices that threaten his body and soul.
Rainy Seasons
2010
NR15-year-old Valderama, so called by the townsfolk for his long curly hair, is trying to obtain the ID card he’s never been able to have. He has no documentation, no family, and no official identity. One day, after a fateful encounter, he is forced to hastily get out of town. Now he has to fight for survival in the big city, in Tehran, where he comes across others who live on the margins of society.
Valderama
2017
3.5Crude Oil comes out of a middle aged woman's body is on one hand empowering her and on the other hand bringing uncertainty and paranoia to her life and when a male paranoia is build up against her body's malfunction and oil is gradually trivialized and just there to solve some small family issues, the condition gets exacerbated with her body.
Leakage
2019
6.0Sarah, a 5-year-old nurse, helps her patients calm down even those with no hope of surviving…
The Rain Falls Where it Will
2020
6.0Sarah, a 5-year-old nurse, helps her patients calm down even those with no hope of surviving…
The Rain Falls Where it Will
2020
NRLonely dying man hopes that someone will step in so that he can tell his final words.
The Old Doleful Ballad of Asmar's Rainy Afternoon
2000
NRA Film By Sorrosh Zarini
Keshik
2026
