Movies: Bahman Farmanara

Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars....

The first lady of a noble house has died and now there is conflict between the remainders for taking over her heritage....

Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran gynecologist, think...

A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a television relay station in a remote region of Zahedan province....

A tax collector is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with problems at home, including a suicide attempt by his wife....

A young homeless girl supports herself as a surrogate mother for money. A human rights attorney tries to help her change her life, but ithe challenges seem insurmountable. This is a rarely seen side of Iranian society....

Parvaneh, a famous singer and movie star, has an affair with a married man. A student named Baabak, who suffers from leukaemia, falls in love with Parvaneh. They have a good time together for a while, until she hears about Baabak's disease and decide...

Prince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, is suffering from tuberculosis, which he knows is fatal. He spends his last days alone in the magnificent rooms of his wintry palace, from where he recollects the glory days o...

This documentary series, spanning six feature-length films, explores the life and artistic journey of Nosratollah Karimi — an Iranian actor of theater and cinema, director, writer, sculptor, university professor, and gardener....

Death surrounds Bahman, a director who hasn't made a film in 24 years (he can't get past the censors). He's working on a documentary, for Japanese TV, on Iranian burial practices. On the anniversary of his wife's death, a hitchhiker tells him a story...

Based on a short story by Houshang Golshiri, this film centers on mysterious and chilling events that take place in a village. A group of superstitious inhabitants have erected a scarecrow for protection but soon find themselves terrorized by it. Mad...

A Documentary about the New Wave movement in Iranian cinema....

Directed by Bahman Farman Ara....

When Mr. Esalat is looking for a topic for his TV show, he notices an advertisement in the newspaper about a missing girl. The picture of the missing girl is very familiar to him and he tries to remember where he saw it before. His wife Asieh is a te...

Persian Carpet is an omnibus film produced by Iran's National Carpet Center and Farabi Cinema Foundation where 15 renowned Iranian directors contributed films on the subject of Persian carpet. Carpets are the reflection of the cultural and historical...

Bahram Farzaneh is a writer who has long been unable to write a story. Suddenly, due to a car accident, a song is repeated in his mind that brings him to dance. The same thing stirred up the passion for writing....

This film is about the interest of a person named Ahmed in cinema. Ahmed has been very interested in cinema since his childhood. He started working in cinema as a teenager because of his interest. Ahmed is currently a famous tea man in Iranian cinema...

An artist's life who lives in a village of Kurdistan,Iran has been changed because his nephew enters to the village....

Two old writers who one of them is returned to Iran after 38 years because of his son's suicide, are going on a trip to the grave of that son....

This documentary looks at different aspects of the life of Bahman Farmanara, the well known Iranian film director and producer....