Mehdi Ahmadi

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

Arghavan poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Arghavan

2015

Arghavan poster
2.0

An accidental encounter between a man and a woman changes their future.

Arghavan

2014

Paris Paris poster
8.0

Three 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

The Bride of Fire poster
5.8

A 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

Sohrab, a Journey poster
NR

A 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

White Nights poster
7.2

A 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

The Rainbow Island poster
NR

There 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

Awakening poster
2.0

After 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

Leaf of Life poster
NR

Human 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

فصل آلوچه های سبز poster
NR

After 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

Morning is Close poster
NR

An 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

Talking with a Shadow poster
5.0

Documentary 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

On the Zero Line poster
NR

A 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

The Ransomer poster
NR

when 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

Parental Farm poster
5.0

When 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

The Green Fire poster
3.0

Based 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

Open Sentence poster
NR

A 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

Annunciation to a Third Milennium Citizen poster
3.0

The story is about faith and religious believes.

Annunciation to a Third Milennium Citizen

2013

The Bright House poster
5.0

Sohrab 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 artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The mirror man

The Autumn Alley poster
9.0

A docudrama about art and creativity; based on modern art gallery in Tehran and its founder Jazeh Tabatabai.

The Autumn Alley

1997

Forty Seven poster
NR

A 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

Negin poster
NR

Azar 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

Seven Acts poster
5.5

Four young men come together to solve their financial Problems.

Seven Acts

2000

Behind the camera