
Acting
Mehdi Ahmadi
Tehran, Iran
Actor and occasional producer, Mehdi Ahmadi (مهدی احمدی) is best known for taking starring roles in films such as White Nights, in which he played a young university professor and The Green Fire.
Acting credits
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Arghavan
2015
2.0An accidental encounter between a man and a woman changes their future.
Arghavan
2014
8.0Three men—from China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Palestine—live together in a squatted apartment in a seemingly abandoned building in Paris. The group is bound together by their shared experience of life in exile and the fleeting nature of their possessions, relationships, and sense of home, but the temporary safe space is threatened by outside forces and events.
Paris Paris
2026
5.8A tragedy in which a young woman from an Arab tribe, prevented from marrying her non-Arab Persian lover is forced against her wishes to marry her cousin.
The Bride of Fire
2000
NRA portrait documentary about one of the most prominent pioneers of the Iranian modern cinema, Sohrab Shahid Saless. In 1969, a young man of 26 years of age returns to his country Iran after years of studying cinema and going through the hardship of living abroad as a university student. He does not want to become a filmmaker in the commercial and valueless cinema of that time, so he chooses a different and – of course – a very hard path for the making of his films. The result of the daring choice is the two features A Simple Event and Still Life, which are remembered today as the most important and most influential first examples of the formation of the Iranian modern cinema. The pioneer filmmaker is nobody but Sohrab Shahid Saless. But how he succeeded in the making of the unconventional films? And how are his films related to the vicissitude in his life?
Sohrab, a Journey
2016
7.2A young university professor, who leads a quiet and reclusive life and fills his life with reading and teaching literature, meet a young girl who has altered the course of her life for the sake of a man she loves. She has promised to meet her beloved at a certain spot on four consecutive nights exactly one year after their last meeting. The young professor's encounter with the young and passionate girl during four nights brings about significant changes in both of their lives and beliefs. Now concepts like love, literature and expection have a new meaning for them.
White Nights
2003
NRThere are 50 different colours of soil on Hormuz Island. An eco-artist travels there to teach the women inhabitants how to create works of art from the soil.
The Rainbow Island
2015
2.0After a car accident Zahra loses her memory. Psychiatrists are desperate about the case while Zahra is in search for her lost daughter. After 24 years she is awake once again and begin to search for her then 6 years old girl but everything is different now.
Awakening
2008
NRHuman tales are reluctant to reach the point because when it comes to it, it's no longer worth it. So he changes the path of life to achieve the dream that he always sought to fulfill, but ...
Leaf of Life
2017
NRAfter submitting his application to resign, a judge, Ata, seeks shelter in his family villa out of town. When his son, Farhad, a university student, is released from the prison, Ata experiences a cold reunion with the family while his wife, Giti, is filing for divorce. But a car accident, leading to the death of Farhad, and the paralysis of Giti, puts him in a game of concealing the truth from Giti and Vida, Farhad’s girlfriend – just as it has been constantly concealed since the time of the loss of another family member under the heavy steps of history in a country shaken by the public movements from time to time…
فصل آلوچه های سبز
2023
NRAn episodic film made of 4 separate stories which are happening in night till morning and shows the problems of the characters of these stories.
Morning is Close
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5.0Documentary about the life and works of Sadegh Hedayat. It follows a teacher, a researcher, and a journalist as they discuss some of Hedayat's most famous works and their influences. The film intermixes the three conversing along with a narrated history of the author with images.
Talking with a Shadow
2006
NRA poet who lost his words and a woman who miscarried her baby meet on the equator, and two emotions start to mingle at the point of latitude 0°.
On the Zero Line
2022
NRwhen streetwise Essi enlists the help of the morally ambiguous Haj Tofigh to get out of prison sentence for murder, he sets off in search of his fortune.Essi considers a shocking offer from Tofigh...
The Ransomer
2003
5.0When Mamhoud is invited to a conference to speak about his new war novel, 'Parental farm,' his aim to discuss war literature in general turns into a much more personal journey. Having lost ...
Parental Farm
2004
3.0Based on an ancient story Sang-e Sabor it's the story of a girl Nardaneh who one day hears a voice telling her that soon she will marry with a dead man. One day she enters a castle and in one of it's room finds a dead body with a book beside it. She begins to read the book and follows the instructions step by step.
The Green Fire
2008
NRA war-scarred soul, Saber is granted a temporary release after nine years of confinement. Armed with a 48-hour pass, he ventures into the bustling metropolis of Tehran, seeking retribution alongside his former cellmate, Ankel. Yet, fate intervenes as an unexpected encounter with his estranged half-sister forces him to confront his past and discover a profound new meaning to existence.
Open Sentence
2002
3.0The story is about faith and religious believes.
Annunciation to a Third Milennium Citizen
2013
5.0Sohrab returns to Iran after years abroad. Despite all the psychological pressures of his homecoming, he stays in a house in which he finds a young girl living in the shadows. After the death of her father and a failed romance, the girl (Arghavan) now lives with her mother. She has contracted a disease, which can only be cured by darkness and silence. When Sohrab sees her, she tries to bring her back to life. He sets out to film the daily lives of people but only in activities that inspire hope. It proves to be a difficult mission. Each filmed person faces the camera and asks her to come into the light, but Arghavan remains mired in her pain. She asks Sohrab to go film her hometown in western Iran where she last saw her father. There, he confides in her, facing the camera as he makes a confession.
The Bright House
2006
No synopsis available yet.
The mirror man
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9.0A docudrama about art and creativity; based on modern art gallery in Tehran and its founder Jazeh Tabatabai.
The Autumn Alley
1997
NRA woman escapes from her husband's beatings while her daughter enters the house. The girl noticed the fight between her mother and father, and after saying no, she went with her father to the city to find the fugitive mother.
Forty Seven
2018
NRAzar finds out in prison that her teenage daughter Negin has run away from home. She asks for help from one of her friends, Neda, who was previously her cellmate, to find her daughter and bring her back home.
Negin
2002
5.5Four young men come together to solve their financial Problems.
Seven Acts
2000
