Movies: Mehdi Hashemi

Bahram Beyzai's poetic imagining of the circumstances that led to the death of Yazdgerd III, the last of the Sassanid kings of Iran. His death in 651, during the Arab invasions that brought Islam to this Zoroastrian realm, was mysterious: his corpse ...

A young woman is murdered by her own father, with the help of her younger brother. She is secretly buried in the cellar, a space where the women of the family weave carpets and perform other domestic chores. Her loss, or perhaps her presence, continu...

One evening in a grand royal palace, a frivolous and grotesque sultan has a nightmare. The great diviner concludes that on a full moon evening arrows of doom will fall on his head. Frightened, the sultan feels discomfort and falls ill in bed......

Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class soci...

An inspiring love story about a self-described “poor, gay, black man from North Philly” on his historic run for the United States Senate. But this race is about more than taking on the political competition. It’s about taking on an entire system....

Sasan and Bahram are back to Iran and Alice is with them too. Babak's father and Sasan's mother come to airport to take them home but they don't know that they are married. Meanwhile Bahram takes the wrong suitcase which lead them to confront with a ...

Nowruz is coming, but the devil is lurking to destroy Nowruz and spring. Uncle Nowruz has an accident on the way to Grandma Frost's hut and searching for Hajji Firuz and a big storm starts....

In a world where everyone falls in love with your money, falls in love with your house, falls in love with the car under your feet, someone is found and falls in love with you!...

A loyal gamekeeper enters the Pardis Kala region with his teenage son. There, an ill-wisher landlord has influence over all the people but no one likes him. A flighty sergeant is not happy about the gamekeeper entering there. A new teacher can not un...

A man lives with his only daughter, doing everything he can to make a living for his daughter's sake. But a misunderstanding makes things complicated for him....

Three love stories... three couples get a chance to reach a new definition of love in the ups and downs of their emotional relationships....

Mohammad Javad Halimi is a simple government's employer who manages after years to buy a house for himself outside the city's limits. But in the second night in his new house a thief is coming to his house. He manages to catch the thief but deliverin...

The story of the movie Texas 3, as it is clear from its poster, begins after the story of the statues containing cocaine in the previous episode. should find the rest of the statues and solve the security problem, but......

nspired by his recent trip to the USA, a filmmaker (played by Dariush Farhang) dreams of making an action film in modern Iran. Having little experience to draw on, he finds that the task is much more daunting that he had first imagined. As he faces s...

The film follows a character known as The Cinematographer, who is looking for someone called Atieh (Future). As he calls out to her, he is magically transported back in time from the early twentieth century to the reign of Naser al-Din Shah in 19th c...

A man, who has some kind of a disease and eats a lot, enters a poor and large family to marry their mother....

Police investigates a case to find and eliminate a group of political objectors to Iranian regime before 1978 revolution....

The personal life of a couple is challenged when the wife gets a promotion over her husband and becomes his boss....

When Pari and Mehdi are not able to have children, Mehdi's mother suggests he has a second marriage. This pushes Pari to seek revenge by requesting her promised dowry, which is supposed to be equal to the combined weight of her and her husband. This ...

Two on the road: an actress who is giving up cinema and discovering a new world in photography and a man who lost his factory. The destination is Somalia where human dignity proves to be the conqueror even in the hard times of war and starvation....