Baset Rezaei
Acting
Biography
Baset Rezaei is an Iranian actor, known for Dressage (2018), Mehran (2021), Fish and Puddle (2021), and Zalava (2021). He received his bachelor's degree in Theater Directing from Tehran University of the Arts. He started his career writing plays and directing in the theater and became a professional actor in cinema. He starred in the film Dressage (2018), which was honored in the Berlin Generation category. He also starred in Zalava (2021), which won the Venice Film Festival Critics' Week and Fipresci Priza Award.
Known For
As Raman prepares to migrate out of Iran, his friends plot the perfect way to celebrate his impending departure. However, their path is plagued with conflict; an unresolved argument over the accidental death of a friend and a conservative elder brother who looks upon their lives with disdain, further resolves to stop the celebration.
The Crowd
In 1978, the inhabitants of Zalava, a small village in Iran, claim that there is a demon among them. While investigating the strange case, Massoud, a young police sergeant, crosses paths with an exorcist.
Zalava
Golsa is a 16-year-old girl living with her family in a small town near Tehran. She spends most of her time hanging out with a group of friends. One day the group decide on a course of action the consequences of which will have unexpected results and turn their little bit of fun into something far more complicated.
Dressage
An Iranian journalist couple wants to move to America to escape the difficulties of their country. The woman receives her visa but her husband doesn't. He stays in Iran and watches his wife find success on television and falls into a state of depression.
America
Two gay partners bound by a forbidden love in Iran decide to illegally migrate to Italy. To cross the border, they must negotiate with a fiercely homophobic smuggler, turning their escape into a high-stakes confrontation. As pressures mount, one of them begins to doubt if he truly wants to leave his homeland behind.
Italiano
With the successive defeats and failure of Iranian forces during the imposed war, Ali Hashemi and Hamid Ramezani establish the top-secret "Nusrat" reconnaissance base to use the local forces of the region to identify the Great Horus and prepare the ground for carrying out an innovative military operation.