Javad Ebrahiminejad
Directing
Biography
Javad Ebrahiminejad was born in Iran in 1993. He began his career in filmmaking in 2008 and obtained a diploma in film directing. Later, he pursued a bachelor's degree in playwriting at the University of Tehran. In 2017, he entered the professional Iranian film industry, accumulating several credits as a writer, director, and producer for both short and feature-length films, including documentary projects. Since 2019, he has been actively working as a film archivist and restoration specialist. With an extensive filmography, Javad has made significant contributions to Iranian cinema. Notably, he has restored 13 historical Iranian films commissioned by the National Film Archive of Iran, showcasing his expertise in film preservation.
Known For
While making a film about the Israeli-Palestinian war, an Iranian filmmaker is thrust into it himself. He is forced to flee Tehran with his family, and his political essay transforms into a twelve‑day diary of survival, exile and identity.
Fruits of Despair
On September 22, 1998, the Iranian poet Hamid Hajizadeh and his nine-year-old son Karun, whose name symbolically refers to Iran's longest river, were brutally murdered in their home in Kerman. The documentary film, based on the statements of the survivors, tries to sensitively reconstruct one of the many terrible motivated events that took place in Iran at the end of the previous century and draws us into the fateful day with the help of detailed shots of the objects in Hamid's study.
Karun – The Longest River of Iran
After Ali suddenly leaves home, he and Simin separately try to find the reason for this separation before their memories are permanently faded.
What's Left Behind
An experimental film about narrations of two journal photos from Iran's revolution in 1979.
Fragments of a Revolution (Sahneye Tarikh)
The Journey of a young man who is making a documentary about forgotten narratives around an old piano, takes him through an unknown path towards restoring history, culture and identity of his homeland, Iran, in dusty and abandoned objects.
The House of Forgetfulness
"Slaughter" is an experimental short film that delves into the archival and historical footage of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, depicting a symbolic narrative surrounding the ritualistic act of animal sacrifice, known as "Besmel." It serves as an allegorical representation of a nation's sacrifice amidst the backdrop of political transformations.
Slaughter (Besmel)
Streets and places in Tehran are full of names that have changed over time with the emergence of various ideologies, and this has an impact on the collective identity of the people and the city...
The City as a Memorial
In the summer of 1900, the first film camera was purchased by Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar for Iran, and immediately the first Iranian moving images were captured by this camera. These images, in an obsessive manner, have embodied the mesmerized gaze of people. In the span of 79 years since the purchase of this camera, Iran has undergone two revolutions and two coups, and throughout all these moments, the camera has been present as the recorder of people's mesmerized gazes. These mesmerized gazes are in a way as if they are the ones looking at us, not the other way around. It seems like these gazes are trying to convey something, but what? No one knows. Now, we gaze at those who have gazed at us from a distant time.