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Farnoosh Samadi

Farnoosh Samadi

Writing

Biography

Iranian filmmaker.

Known For

180 Degree Rule
8.0

A school teacher from Tehran is preparing to attend a wedding in northern Iran. When her husband suddenly forbids her to go, she makes a choice that will place her on a painful path to atonement.

180 Degree Rule

2020
More Than Two Hours
6.2

A woman suffers complications after having sex. Her partner takes her to the hospital, but getting help proves to be difficult.

More Than Two Hours

2013
Disappearance
6.0

On a cold winter’s night in modern Tehran, a couple of young lovers run into a serious problem, and they have just a few hours to come up with a solution. They go from hospital to hospital in search for help, but none of the hospitals will admit the young woman and provide her with the medical attention she desperately requires. While they try hard to find a way to solve the problem, they have to hide what is happening from their parents. Moreover, their relationship is facing a crisis and will suffer dire consequences. Caught between conservative traditions and modern day desires, the couple must face their uncertain future.

Disappearance

2017
The Role
6.0

A woman accompanies her husband for an audition. The thing that happens there leads her for an important decision...

The Role

2018
Delay
N/A

A man and his two children are late for their flight. While they wait for the next flight something happens that changes his point of view about being a father.

Delay

2018
The Baby
6.0

Narges and her friend have just a few hours to find someone to take care of her baby.

The Baby

2014
The Silence
7.3

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer.

The Silence

2016
Gaze
7.6

On her way back from work, a woman witnesses something happening in the bus. She must decide if she will reveal it or not.

Gaze

2017
Between Dreams and Hope
8.2

A trans man and his partner travel to a remote Iranian village to face his estranged father and obtain documents that would permit them to live authentically, in visionary director Farnoosh Samadi’s bold queer love story.

Between Dreams and Hope

2025
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8.4

A complex and sometimes combative exchange at an Iranian broadcaster over a certain Hollywood blockbuster disguises deeper ruptures, in Farnoosh Samadi’s wry and subtly provocative drama.

Titanic, Suitable Version for Iranian Families

2023
Exam
7.2

A teenage girl gets involved in the process of delivering a pack of cocaine to its client, and gets stuck in a weird cycle of occurrences.

Exam

2019
Witness
7.1

A mother helps an elderly woman in a shopping mall in Tehran. A tragedy occurs, brutally confronting her with the impact of her actions.

Witness

2020
Pilgrims
N/A

Two little brothers leave their village to find their mother in Istanbul without their father's knowledge.

Pilgrims

2020