Mozhdeh Shamsai

Acting

Mozhdeh Shamsai

Born 1968-06-23 · Tehran, Iran

Mozhdeh Shamsai is an actress who was born in 1968. She started her career in cinema and starred in “Mosaferan” directed by Bahram Beizae in 1991. She has won the Crystal Simorgh of Best Actress for “Killing Mad Dogs” from Fajr Film Festival.

Acting credits

Killing Mad Dogs poster
6.8

Golrokh, an Iranian author, struggles to settle her husband's debts caused by a business partner who left him to bear the consequences.

Killing Mad Dogs

2001

When We Are All Asleep poster
4.2

Chakameh, who has lost both her husband and child in a car accident, meets a man recently released from prison. While she's under pressure from lawyers to compromise with the arrested driver, the ex-convict tells her his story of his arrest and subsequent freedom.

When We Are All Asleep

2009

Ayyar-e Tanha poster
NR

about Bahram Beyzai

Ayyar-e Tanha

2020

Travelers poster
6.9

A wedding day becomes a ritual of mourning when the bride's family die in an auto accident. Refusing to accept her daughter's death, and in the midst of guests and mourners, including the drivers that caused the accident, the mother orders the wedding to move forward. But how can the bride marry in the midst of a wake and without the family's traditional mirror, which the sister was bringing to the service?

Travelers

1992

Jana and Baladoor poster
NR

Jana seeks freedom and self-actualisation, while Baladoor searches for truth and a means of escaping the pressures of society and individuality. These two find themselves in a complex situation where they must face difficult choices.

Jana and Baladoor

2012

Bahram Beyzaie: A Mosaic of Metaphors poster
NR

A documentary film by Bahman Maghsoodloo about Bahram Bayzaei and his cinema, released in 2019. Maghsoodloo's conversations with Bayzaei in this film were recorded in Tehran in 2002 and Palo Alto in 2017.

Bahram Beyzaie: A Mosaic of Metaphors

2019

پرونده کوتاه سگ‌کشی poster
NR

The documentary was produced in 2004.

پرونده کوتاه سگ‌کشی

Crossroads poster
NR

In the early 2000s, Nahal Farrokhi, a teacher who had wanted to become an actress and is now waiting for a letter carrier to return her letter, and Sarang Sesh, a homeless person who had wanted to be a writer and has just been released from prison after fifteen years, meet each other at a crossroads (apparently in Tehran) and uncover secrets about their pasts.

Crossroads

2018

Dialogue with the Wind poster
6.0

An Avant-garde short movie of Bahram Beizai about history of Kish island in south of Iran.

Dialogue with the Wind

1998