Farzad Motamen
Directing
Biography
Farzad Motamen (فرزاد مؤتمن) is an Iranian director mostly known for the movie 'White Nights (Shabhaye Rooshan), and his 2015 feature film 'The Long Goodbye' (Khodahafezi Toolani) which garnered two Crystal Symorghs for Best Actor and Best Set and Costume Design, as well as the Diploma of Honor Prize for Best Screenplay at the 2015 Fajr Film Festival. Motamen also directed 'Seven Acts' (Haft Pardeh), 'Poopak Mash Mashallah', 'Sounds' (Sedaha) and the 2015 romantic drama film 'Twilight' (Sayeh Rooshan). More recently, Farzad Motamen released the 2016 movie 'When Was the Last Time You Saw Sahar?' (Akharin Bad Key Sahar Ra Didi?)
Known For
Two people find themselves in the middle of a murder plot. One can't hear and the other one can't see.
Cheshm O Goosh Baste
A murder takes place in a residential complex, and each of the neighbors gets involved in some way.
Sedaha
Four young men come together to solve their financial Problems.
Seven Acts
A man awakes to find substantial gaps in his long and short term memory, leaving him unsure of his identity and past. A therapist arrives to help him recollect his lost memories. As she ...
Sayeh Roshan
The story about a boy whom her mother passes away and he meets an angel...
The Music Box
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
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
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
A comedy about a a few days of a family's life in Iran
Poopak and Mash Mashallah
A girl Sahar who is from a poor family of Tehran's suburbs is not coming back home one night. The mother goes to the police and informs about that. In that same day a body of a girl who is very look like Sahar is find. The parents are summon to recognize their girl's body but it turns out that it belongs to another girl. Major Saeed intervenes in the case and is after answers.
When Did You See Sahar Last Time?
Mahtab goes to Davood's residence to find a trace of Davood Moradi, the last person related to his sister Maryam before his long sleep, to find answers to his questions.
All Through the Night
In the memory of Jamshid Alvandi
Frame
A textile factory worker struggles to keep his life together after his life is shrouded in controversy by his wife’s death. He is revered by his co-workers and at constant threat from his wife’s brother, seeking retribution for her death.
The Long Farewell
A young man's car crashes into a stray dog on a side road, causing the night patrol to become suspicious and search the car. Something is found in the trunk of the car that changes the fate of several people...
Nocturnal
A young man and his father live together in the same apartment. Against his son's wishes, the father brings home sex workers. One day he brings home a young woman who not only does not respond to his advances, but also refuses to leave. Both father and son unite in trying to make her depart. However, when she does finally leave, but of her own free will, her absence becomes unbearable for the two men.