This is a 26.5" x 38" Iranian poster designed by Ali Bagheri for the
2015 film I Am Diego Maradona written and directed by Bahram
Tavakoli and starring Saeed Aghakhani as Farhad. Plot summary: The
film tells the story in comedic style of a feud between two sisters
and their families. At the 2015 Fajr Film Festival in Tehran the film
won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Director, Best Film (producer Javad
Noroozbeigi), Best Actress (Golab Adineh) and Best Supporting Actress
(Pantea Panahiha).
Cast and crew: Ali Bagheri, Bahram Tavakoli, Golab Adineh, Saeed
Aghakhani, Jamshid Hashempur, Babak Hamidian, Saber Abar, Houman
Seyyedi, Vishka Asayesh, Pantea Panahiha, Mahsa Alafar, Sara Bahrami
This is a 26.5" x 38" Iranian poster for the 2014 film Shahab Hosseini
film Resident of the Middle Floor written by Mohammad Hadi
Karimi and starring Shahab Hosseini as Omid. Plot summary: Omid is a
distressed writer struggling to write a new book. As he tries to work
out a story, he plays the roles of 38 different characters (a world
record) ranging from Rumi to Roger Waters.
Cast and crew: Shahab Hosseini, Mohammad Hadi Karimi, Farhad
Aslani, Behnoosh Bakhtiari, Sareh Bayat, Kambiz Dirbaz, Mehdi Faghih,
Kianoosh Gerami, Hengameh Ghaziani, Sahar Ghoreishi, Babak Hamidian,
Shahab Hosseini, Behnaz Jafari, Mohammad Hadi Karimi, Mani Kasraian,
Hossein Mahjoub, Hossein Moheb Ahari
This is a 26.5" x 38" Iranian poster designed by Mohammad Rouholamin
for the 2013 Kiomars Poorahmad film The Last 50 Steps written
by Kiomars Poorahmad and Habib Ahmad Zadeh and starring Babak
Hamidian. Plot summary: The film tells the true story of a member of
the Intelligence Detachment of the Ashraf Armored Division of Najaf
during the Val-Fajr 4 Operation against Iraq. The soldier is sent
into Iraq to reconnoiter a minefield and is stranded there with a
wounded leg for 17 days.
Cast and crew: Kiomars Poorahmad, Mohammad Rouholamin, Babak
Hamidian, Tannaz Tabatabayi, Salman Farkhondeh, Mohasen Aftabsavar,
Farzin Sabooni, Hossein Jafarian
This is a 26.5" x 38" poster designed by Behzad Khorshidi for the 2014
film Hussein, Who Said No written and directed by Ahmad Reza
Darvish and starring Arash Asefi as Bokeir. Plot summary: This $15
million publicly-funded Iranian epic tells the story of Imam Hussein's
ill-fated Karbala battle in 680 A.D. against the Umayyad Caliph Yazid
[Babak Hamidian].
This is a 26.5" x 38" Iranian poster designed by Behzad Khorshidi for
the 2014 film The Fox written and directed by Behruz Afkhami
starring Jalal Fatemi as the Fox. Plot summary: An Israeli agent is
sent to Iran for a new round of assassinations of scientists. This
skilled agent uses the cooperation of disposable people who have been
deceived and are unaware of their missions until the last minute. A
motorcyclist falls into his trap and is unwittlingly trained to
kill. The story is fiction but closely resembles earlier actual
events. Some people think the making of this film was ordered by
Iran's Ministry of Intelligence.
Cast and crew: Behruz Afkhami, Behzad Khorshidi, Jalal Fatemi,
Hamid Goudarzi, Sepehr Haghshenas, Babak Hamidian, Sam Kaboudvand,
Arash Majidi, Masoud Sakhaei, Marjan Shirmohammadi, Yavar Tambrchi
This is a 26.75" x 38.25" Iranian poster made to promote the 2011
89-minute Mehdi Rahmani color film Hidden [penhan] based on a
story by Mehdi Rahmani and Mehdi Shirazi with cinematography by Turaj
Mansuri. Plot summary: Yalda is an adolescent girl who lives with her
father Esfandiar, a successful architect. Her mother Nazanin left her
some time ago and went to France, and Yelda feels lonely. She is
friends with a girl named Rayhaneh and a boy named Ruzbeh; all of them
have problems.
Cast and crew: Mehdi Rahmani, Mehdi Shirazi, Turaj Mansuri, Fataneh Malekmohamadi, Fariborz Arabnia, Ana Ne'mati, Babak Hamidian, Mehrdad Sedighian, Azadeh Shams, Anahita Afshar, Roya Javidnia
This is a 26.75" x 38.25" Iranian poster designed by Behzad Khorshidi
to promote the 2013 Pouran Derakhshandeh 100-minute color
film Hush! Girls Don't Scream starring Tanza Tabatabayi based
on a screenplay by Mitra Bahrami and Pouran Derakhshandeh with
cinematography by Morteza Poursamedi. Plot summary: The title says
"girls don't scream," and this suspense thriller, written by women and
directed by a woman, shows why they don't and why they should in Iran.
The vehicle for this message is the story of Shirin [Tanza
Tabatabayi], a woman who commits murder and is sentenced to death as
restitution (qasas) even though she might have been exonerated
if the tools and information for a proper defense had been available.
Cast and crew: Pouran Derakhshandeh, Tannaz Tabatabayi, Merila Zare'i, Babak Hamidian, Shahab Hosseini, Nima Safei, Farhad Aeesh, Amir Aghaee, Shirin Bina, Jamshid Hasshempur, Hadi Marzban, Arash Mohajer, Maedeh Tahmasebi, Morteza Poursamadi, Mitra Bahrami
This is a 26.75" x 38" Iranian poster designed by Mohammad Hossein
Houshmandi to promote the 2014 90-minute Ebrahim Hatamikia
film Che starring Fariborz Arabnia based on a screenplay by
Ebrahim Hatamikia with cinematography by Hossein Jafarian. Plot
summary: This film covers a two-day period in August 1979 when
Dr. Mostafa Chamran was sent to the city of Paveh in northwest Iran by the interim
government to put an end to the internal clashes that had erupted
there between the people of Paveh, the separatist Kurds and the
revolutionary guard combatants. Chamran went as a peacemaker but he
had to go against Ali Asghar Vesali [Babak Hamidian], the
revolutionary guard commander at Paveh who wanted justice, and he also
had to convince Dr. Enayati [Mehdi Soltani], the leader of the
rebellious Kurds, to back off from the fighting. Vesali, a passionate
and revolutionary youth, saw Chamran's peacemaking and desire to stop
the clashes as reactionary and constantly struggled with him.
Brigadier General Fallahi, [Saeed Rad] the commander of the Army
ground force, also had a different view of the war and tried to manage
the situation in the way he thought appropriate. Chamran made every
effort to encourage the various intellectual and ideological groups to
unite and behave rationally, but contrary to his expectations Enayati,
who was also his old comrade, did not accept his call for peace, nor
were Vesali and his comrades-in-arms willing to stop fighting.
Chamran thus went through two difficult, intolerable days while the
competing forces were taking over the city. Finally by direct order
from Imam Khomeini on 18 August armed forces with artillery, tanks,
fighter jets and helicopters were quickly dispatched to the site from
the capital and the fighting was stopped the next day. This order from
Khomeini took the unusual form of a fatwa; the siege of the city
and the extensive killings of Kurds that followed, though not covered
in the film, are remembered with great bitterness today by Iran's
Kurds.
Cast and crew: Ebrahim Hatamikia, Fariborz Arabnia, Saeed Rad, Merila Zare'i, Babak Hamidian, Mehdi Soltani, Esmail Soltanian, Amir Reza Delavari, Khosrow Shahraz, Payam Larian, Hussein Jafarian
