
Kiumars Pourahmad
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Biography
Kiumars Pourahmad (Persian: کیومرث پوراحمد; December 16, 1949 – April 5, 2023) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film producer and novelist. Pourahmad started his career as a film critic and assistant director in a TV series in early 1970s. He made his directorial debut, Tatureh in 1983 after making some short films. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For

An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
Where Is The Friend's House?
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Parantez Baz

Based on the novel "My Sweet Orange Tree" by José Mauro de Vasconcelos. Majid lives with his mother in his bad-tempered stepfather's house. He gets on Javad's lorry secretly but the trucker scolds and beats him. Hating Javad, Majid promises to kill him. He goes to a trainer to get ready and confides in a tree. Javad realises Majid's emotional needs and they form a deep friendship after a while.
Swallow, My Tree

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 understand the gamekeeper's discipline so she does not like him. Khaleh Khanom who lives with the teacher also does not like her husband Hossein Amoo. Good guys fight the bad guys to fulfill the dream of the gamekeeper's son.
The Silent Hunt

Due to drought, Rasoul has left the village. He is glad to find a job as a night guardian at a complex under construction. In the deserted construction site, something wrong is going on. In the strange circumstances around him, Rasoul finds himself trapped…
The Night Guardian

The movie is about a genius young man named Hormoz (Babak Hamidian) who has been asked to come to the front line by a man from Basij for intelligence purposes. During a part of the project, the man is captured and a young Kurd woman (Tanaz Tabatabayi) saves him. Love begins to grow between Hormoz and the girl but they have to part ways so that Hormoz can return to his side ...
The Last 50 Steps

After his wife and daughter lose touch with him, Habib starts losing his memory to the point of Alzheimer.
Where Are My Shoes?

The story of this movie is taken from a high-profile criminal case in the 80s in Iran. In this film, which has a criminal and inflammatory atmosphere, a 15-year-old teenager committed a murder and is now awaiting the court's verdict.
The Case is Open

Rezvani, the director of a housing cooperative, is demanded by the shareholders to fire Farid Sadri, the contractor and the supervisor of the high-rise towers construction project, who could not manage to bring the construction process to an end on the due time, and find someone else to substitute him...
Top of the Tower

A young, inquisitive girl named Nargess encounters a girl from another school who could pass as her twin. Amazed by the strange coincidence, the two girls rush to their respective parents, but neither side has the time to hear them out. Nargess finds herself caught between her mother and father as she tries in vain to make herself heard, and when that fails, the two girls hatch a plan to swap places and see if their parents notice. While everything goes smoothly at first, it's not long until they start encountering problems in this double-sided family drama.
The Double Lottie

The adventures, misadventures, and coming-of-age milestones of an Iranian teenager.
Tales of Majid

Beach Villa tells the story of a village family who are supposed to take care of a villa for 6 months as caretakers. Chavosh, the owner of the villa, is going to live outside of Iran for 6 months for his daughter to go to university, and he leaves the villa to Yunus and his wife, and they move to the villa with their 3 children. But upon entering the house, Yunus' brother-in-law creates stories that...
Beach Villa

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Ice Flower

Gorgo saves a drunk American from the sea and takes him back to his home where he lives with his wife. The drunk American, Rep, tries to rape Gorgo's wife after he gets sober and thus is thrown out of the house and beat up. Gorgo is bankrupt now and has to work in a Road Construction company, where Rep also works as one of the main engineers. The story goes on with a series of unfortunate events consisting of death and rebellion and false accusations...
Tatooreh

A documentary about Kiumars Pourahmad (Persian: کیومرث پوراحمد) (16 December 1949 – 5 April 2023). Pourahmad was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, film editor, and film producer.
Semi-Finished Childhood

Twelve stories, one per month, from April to March. They all take place in the same place—inside vehicles—and during the “magic hour.” The characters also experience similar situations: they are hesitating to make an important decision in their lives, a moment that will mark them forever.
Golden Time

The film, which is in sharp monochrome, relates the story of a twenty-four-hour-long journey of two young Iranian soldiers (Issā and Emād) and a civilian driver (Amu Rahim) transporting thirty-eight Iraqi prisoners of war, taken from behind the Iraqi line, to a garrison inside Iran. From the details one is informed that the Iran–Iraq War has entered into its third year. The film masterfully depicts the deep inhumanity of acts of war amongst nations by showing the shared humanity of the combatants on both sides
Night Bus

Captain Olov is going to sea for fishing with 14 other men but only he returns home. People are blaming him for the accident and attack his family. In between his little girl Hanieh is become parallel. Captain takes his family and leaves his city Tangak for Bushehr. He takes an oath on himself to beat drum one night till morning just for the healing of his daughter Hanieh but before that he dies. Now his son is after fulfilling his father's oath but for that he has to return for their city where people are still hostile with them.
For the Sake of Haniyeh
This documentary examines the professional and artistic life of Rasoul Sadrameli, a prominent Iranian film director, from the pre-revolutionary era to the present day. One of the main parts of the film is a heartfelt conversation between Rasoul Sadrameli and the late Kiyomars Pourahmad, in which they talk about their cinematic works and their long-standing friendship.
Masahat Zendegi

Three stories about the life of a boy named Majid. Stories about misunderstanding and being misunderstood and the struggles he deals with at school. How a rosary scares him and how he thinks he's doing good while a bunch of other problems come up.