Hamed Soleimanzadeh's Favourite Films

At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.

Two estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to the Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a hotel in a small town called Timoka.

Working at a fishing resort in an idyllic location, but surrounded by various facets of human unpleasantness, a young mute woman falls in love with a man on the run from the law for committing murder.

The story starts in 1919 with some Greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni.

A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city.

Sam and Jonathan, a pair of hapless novelty salesmen, embark on a tour of the human condition in reality and fantasy that unfold in a series of absurdist episodes.

A controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offspring in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.

Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.

A timeless Carpathian story - the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father's killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families.

In April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.

An Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.

The daily life of Mohammad Sardari (Zadour Bonyadi), a railway switchman on the verge of retirement, who lives with his wife and soldier son near the railway track.

Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness", of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.

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, near the Afghanistan border. He has already hired Turkoman tribespeople for his film and selected his filming location. Meanwhile his wife, who is working on her Ph.D. dissertation about the Mongol invasion of Iran, attempts to dissuade him from accepting the assignment. One night, while working on his history of the cinema series, the director fantasizes a diagetic world that consists of clever juxtapositions of his different worlds: the history of cinema, the history of the mongol invasion, his own film idea and his imminent assignment to the desert.

An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.

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

Follows a number of Iranian artists like avant-garde poet, painter and sculptor Jazeh Tabatabaei and Iranian actor Mehdi Ahmadi. The film addresses the question of art and creativity in Iran.

Death of Yazdgerd is the story of death of the last king of Iran before Muslims invade Iran. He escapes to city of Marv and hides in a mill but finally gets killed. The Story is told by the miller, his wife and his daughter but all the stories are different from each other.

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

How a mother acts in the hardest parts of her, and her children's lives.

A corrupt, six-fingered detective is sent to recruit a retired assassin now living a secluded life as a calligrapher to assassinate a prominent government official known as Hezardastan who has stolen jewels from a member of the royal family. However, the calligrapher one-ups the detective and holds him as his prisoner and tortures him. The calligrapher begins to reflect upon his life gone by, and is forced to decide whether to take up this one last job.

Story of two groups of bandits looting merchants' caravans in the middle of Iranian deserts; one of the bosses though starts to transform throughout time.

In one of south regions in old Tehran, Heidar, a bully, falls in love with a Qajar princess and proposes to her. She accepts his proposal providing that he executes the passion-play for Imam Hossein for ten nights in Ashoura. This is when the king of Iran, Reza-Khan, has forbidden any religious and traditional plays, but Heidar and his friends have decided to make it despite all dangers and problems