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Farshad Fadaian

Farshad Fadaian

The process of extracting and processing barite soil (for oil and gas drilling) and rock salt in the mountainous and desert regions of Iran.
This short documentary is my first work and has not yet been screened. The film is my steadfast perception of

To some extent, it’s true that after the documentary Stone, the Silent Mother was produced — along with efforts by a small number of individuals in the ornamental stone industry, diamond wire cutting and controlled blasting gradually replaced the irr

The Ray Cement Factory, the forefather of Iran’s cement industry and one of the country’s pivotal industrial enterprises, is the subject of this documentary, which reflects its state of near ruin. It follows the factory’s formation and development fr

The process of producing a product in a factory.

The process of constructing a linear alkylbenzene (LAB) plant.

In the short film "He and the Birds," the filmmaker uses, revisits, and reinterprets the works of a painter, presented under the name "Self-Portrait" in an exhibition, to express his own conceptual ideas. These concepts include love, war, censorship,

A story about a cowherd family centered on a Galesh teenager and his relationship with the cows and his surrounding environment.

Turkmen children spend their weekends in a Sunni religious school with a strict Naqshbandi Sufi order. At the end of the week, they leave the place to return to their homes.

A long seasonal migration of the Bakhtiari nomads from their winter pastures to their summer pastures in southern Iran, centered on the presence of children.

“Shahrzad” is the tale of a warrior from the desert and a nomadic fortune teller named Shahrzad. The two clashed with one another, imprisoned each other, and ultimately found each other in the valley of death. The commander, trapped by a mirage in th

A symbolic portrayal of migration and the presence of ethnic groups from beyond Iran’s borders into this land.

Sazeh 2001.jpg

Parallel movement of the process of producing fishing nets and fishing activities in the northern and southern seas of Iran.

Water Structures in the Civilization of Khuzestan 2002.jpg

Development process within the factory.

Meeting with the last survivor and the final generation of the storytellers of the Bakhshi tradition in the music of Northern Khorasan.

Borders: A free interpretation of the process of setting up an exhibition (works of an Iranian sculptor) in Vienna with the theme of borders!

No Entry 2003.jpg

The final encounter of the sole survivor among the inhabitants of a large family’s home - a labyrinthine house; a house that is not just a house!

The entrance is a space between the domain of the alley and the house’s courtyard.

The music of the Ahl-e Zikr of the Naqshbandi Sufi order is a part of Greater Khorasan’s musical tradition and belongs to a form of mystical-religious music.
Noor Mohammad Darpoor is (in his own belief) the last custodian and reciter of this order in

When you come into the world one minute late, the world tightens its space around you, and only the toes of your left foot remain for you. This documentary, focusing on the left toes of a woman with muscular paralysis, depicts human behaviors and des

Gahvare 2008.jpg

A field description of a village-town that, in a time long past, was old—then became new—and now, in its renewed newness, is growing old once again.

When the tea fields run dry and the houses wither into worthless shanties, Shirin Nesa too is cast adrift- left without a home.

The safe haven of the elders of Masuleh is a coffeehouse; a coffeehouse that has no meaning without its coffeehouse keeper, Ezzat, because it is there, and with Ezzat's presence, that old age, death, and everydayness—if not forgotten—are mocked.

Manijeh is a lonely woman living in a modest house with a few cows, chickens, and roosters deep in the forests of Talesh. For years, she has lost her son in the city… she possesses no birth certificate, no national ID card, not even a photograph of h

moalla, uninhabited and silent, has long been empty, except for an old man, worn down by age, who, out of pride in being from Ma'la and love for his now-fading paradise garden, has not abandoned it. He tends to its dripping spring and fruit trees. Ma

Fishing groups using the beach seine method in the Anzali coast go to the sea five times a day. This film captures the parallel movement of the fishermen’s fishing activity and the filmmaker’s recording of the fishing process.

For six months, Mr. Attarpour, the town’s veteran carpenter, hasn’t set foot in his workshop. Unfinished projects await his return, but when he finally revisits them, he feels he may have lost the ability to work, perhaps forever.

Khaf, the northern edge of the desert. South Khorasan. A place where water is not abundant, indeed, it is scarce. The people’s wheat must be ground, whether by windmills or watermills. Here stand the magnificent and astonishing windmills of Nashtifan

The butcher’s boy spends his time playing with pigeons and taking care of them, but he also learns how to handpick, slaughter, and prepare the finest sheep for sale in their butcher shop.

Over the past decades, nomadic tribes and pastoral communities across Iran have gradually disintegrated, their ancestral traditions unraveling one by one. Yet, some tribes still resist forced dissolution and permanent urbanization. The Esmaeili tribe

The Turkmens have long believed that if they fall from their horse, they will lose their essence. Today, though they have fallen from the horse, it seems they have not yet fallen from their essence!

My old friend Kambiz Sabri, an Iranian sculptor, told me about a very short performance many years ago and insisted that I make a film as short as that.
I am a documentary filmmaker, and there isn't much fantasy in my films. Therefore, I always told

Ossa Jalil is one of the two elderly blacksmiths remaining in Masuleh. Although he continues to hammer on the anvil and hot iron beside the forge in his old age, the sorrow of losing his wife and the delusion of death never leave him.

For sixteen years, he was a teacher in the remote village of borzolan. He spent all his youth with the village children. Now, he was informed that his mother in the city had become sick and was alone. He had to either leave this mother, meaning borzo

Talesh. “Gisu” is a poor and lonely woman who lives in a forest hut. Years ago, due to an ailment, she lost her sight, but despite her loneliness and blindness, every now and then, she joyfully dyes her hair with henna with the help of her neighbors.

Yusef is an experienced herder who, due to suffering from acute cancer, has lost the ability to work. He transfers his cows and pasture to a young man who has recently quit his job as a factory guard in the city.

Four women from the village of Masuleh, alone yet together. They soothe their loneliness, in the absence of their children and husbands, in a shared courtyard. A courtyard that is the rooftop of another house.

Khosrow, eighty years old, has a daily routine where he takes his sick and elderly wife, along with her hand-knitted sock frames, to the lamppost outside their home four times a day and then brings her back inside. He spends his days wandering around

An old house in Isfahan. Four family members are debating whether to renovate the house or let it become a ruin and leave it; the desire to preserve and stay in the house is stronger than leaving it. In respect of the family's decision to preserve an

When walls collapse, doors and windows collapse with them, but doors and windows are more enduring. Collapsed walls are easier to rebuild. However, doors and windows have a different story.

Sattar Souqi is a poet from the Turkmen people. Now, he also provides bread for the people of his village. He, his wife, and sometimes his son work tirelessly to keep their bakery running. His own house is right next to the bakery, with its entrance

Khomam. Several generations of patients, who are now spending their old age, have been treated by him because they deeply believe in both him and his medical practice. They even get prescriptions from him when they are not ill, hoping that they won't

A documentary utilizing a portion of the footage and images that were intended for a multi-hour documentary titled 'Shamlou in the Mirror,' which, due to the untimely death of this esteemed poet and after a seventeen-year hiatus, has been transformed

The feature documentary 'A Godar Gathering' is a report on the music of a group of nomads from eastern Mazandaran, the Godar people. The Mazandaran nomads live scattered on the outskirts of towns and villages such as Nour, Chamestan, Amol, Babol, Qae

"Jahle" is a type of clay jug with a short or tall neck. People in the region of Hormozgan, until recently, used it to keep water cool in the scorching heat of the south. Only a few Jahle makers remain, mostly in Minab. Nowadays, Jahle is not only us

"Suru Neighborhood, Bandar Abbas.
"Uncle Ali," the protagonist of this documentary, is a retired fisherman who has spent years fishing and sailing. Now, he is an elderly man, weathered by the rigors of life, and remains as the last remnant of the man

"For fifteen years, throughout all seasons, from dawn to dusk, they venture into the forest and foothills, picking and digging edible wild plants. In spring and summer, they transplant rice seedlings in other people's fields in the plains and valleys

Mosayeb and Zahra, traversing their sixth decade side by side, find themselves unrewarded for their toil, despite the bountiful oranges of their orchard and the sugarcane fields. Alas, the orchard's oranges have perished in the cold, and half of thei

In a daily routine, ninety individuals with intellectual disabilities gather in one location. There, they are instructed on how to adapt to themselves, to others, and to their circumstances, using the limited cognitive abilities they possess. The aim

Ossa Ahmad is known to all the inhabitants of the semi-mountainous, semi-forested village of Mazandaran. He, in the past, has shaped and constructed the doors, windows, and ceilings of the neighboring houses and villages with his own hands. He is a n

Throughout the months of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the filmmaker spends his days and nights in quarantine conditions. He captures a series of such circumstances in fourteen episodes.

Morteza sells his entire life in the city and on the outskirts of the desert, buying an ancient castle connected to hectares of abandoned and untilled land, and thousands of hectares of semi-arid pasture for grazing, and two ruined Qantas. Now for th

This is the story of Mahmoud Zand Moghadam who has now transformed himself into a Baluch nomad; his ears, senses, flesh, bones, and clouded mind, all bear the marks of the suffering of this unfortunate people. His existence, wounded and battered by t

Felt or "Namad" is an underlay that is not woven. It is made from the fleece and wool of sheep, camels, and rabbits, and it's crafted by kneading, pounding, and rubbing with human hands, feet, and elbows. Felt is one of the oldest and most primitive

Name: Khalil. His profession: shepherd. Another skill of his, playing the “LaleVa” instrument. He isn't, by today's standards, considered an artist, as both of these professions are inseparable. Playing the “LaleVa is intertwined with shepherding. As

Generations ago, amidst the lush landscapes of Mazandaran, mothers in both rustic hamlets and bustling towns bore forth abundant offspring. They not only nurtured their broods but also toiled the earth and deftly wove on looms whatever their hearts d

The erasure of a city’s memory is to abandon its old homes to ruin. It matters not who once owned each house; the more the city empties of them, the closer it draws to its own grave.

A simple reflection on the coexistence of humans with nature and animals.

The process of extracting and processing barite soil (for oil and gas drilling) and rock salt in the mountainous and desert regions of Iran.
This short documentary is my first work and has not yet been screened. The film is my steadfast perception of

To some extent, it’s true that after the documentary Stone, the Silent Mother was produced — along with efforts by a small number of individuals in the ornamental stone industry, diamond wire cutting and controlled blasting gradually replaced the irr

The Ray Cement Factory, the forefather of Iran’s cement industry and one of the country’s pivotal industrial enterprises, is the subject of this documentary, which reflects its state of near ruin. It follows the factory’s formation and development fr

The process of producing a product in a factory.

The process of constructing a linear alkylbenzene (LAB) plant.

In the short film "He and the Birds," the filmmaker uses, revisits, and reinterprets the works of a painter, presented under the name "Self-Portrait" in an exhibition, to express his own conceptual ideas. These concepts include love, war, censorship,

A story about a cowherd family centered on a Galesh teenager and his relationship with the cows and his surrounding environment.

Turkmen children spend their weekends in a Sunni religious school with a strict Naqshbandi Sufi order. At the end of the week, they leave the place to return to their homes.

A long seasonal migration of the Bakhtiari nomads from their winter pastures to their summer pastures in southern Iran, centered on the presence of children.

“Shahrzad” is the tale of a warrior from the desert and a nomadic fortune teller named Shahrzad. The two clashed with one another, imprisoned each other, and ultimately found each other in the valley of death. The commander, trapped by a mirage in th

A symbolic portrayal of migration and the presence of ethnic groups from beyond Iran’s borders into this land.

Sazeh 2001.jpg

Parallel movement of the process of producing fishing nets and fishing activities in the northern and southern seas of Iran.

Water Structures in the Civilization of Khuzestan 2002.jpg

Development process within the factory.

Meeting with the last survivor and the final generation of the storytellers of the Bakhshi tradition in the music of Northern Khorasan.

Borders: A free interpretation of the process of setting up an exhibition (works of an Iranian sculptor) in Vienna with the theme of borders!

No Entry 2003.jpg

The final encounter of the sole survivor among the inhabitants of a large family’s home - a labyrinthine house; a house that is not just a house!

The entrance is a space between the domain of the alley and the house’s courtyard.

The music of the Ahl-e Zikr of the Naqshbandi Sufi order is a part of Greater Khorasan’s musical tradition and belongs to a form of mystical-religious music.
Noor Mohammad Darpoor is (in his own belief) the last custodian and reciter of this order in

When you come into the world one minute late, the world tightens its space around you, and only the toes of your left foot remain for you. This documentary, focusing on the left toes of a woman with muscular paralysis, depicts human behaviors and des

Gahvare 2008.jpg

A field description of a village-town that, in a time long past, was old—then became new—and now, in its renewed newness, is growing old once again.

When the tea fields run dry and the houses wither into worthless shanties, Shirin Nesa too is cast adrift- left without a home.

The safe haven of the elders of Masuleh is a coffeehouse; a coffeehouse that has no meaning without its coffeehouse keeper, Ezzat, because it is there, and with Ezzat's presence, that old age, death, and everydayness—if not forgotten—are mocked.

Manijeh is a lonely woman living in a modest house with a few cows, chickens, and roosters deep in the forests of Talesh. For years, she has lost her son in the city… she possesses no birth certificate, no national ID card, not even a photograph of h

moalla, uninhabited and silent, has long been empty, except for an old man, worn down by age, who, out of pride in being from Ma'la and love for his now-fading paradise garden, has not abandoned it. He tends to its dripping spring and fruit trees. Ma

Fishing groups using the beach seine method in the Anzali coast go to the sea five times a day. This film captures the parallel movement of the fishermen’s fishing activity and the filmmaker’s recording of the fishing process.

For six months, Mr. Attarpour, the town’s veteran carpenter, hasn’t set foot in his workshop. Unfinished projects await his return, but when he finally revisits them, he feels he may have lost the ability to work, perhaps forever.

Khaf, the northern edge of the desert. South Khorasan. A place where water is not abundant, indeed, it is scarce. The people’s wheat must be ground, whether by windmills or watermills. Here stand the magnificent and astonishing windmills of Nashtifan

The butcher’s boy spends his time playing with pigeons and taking care of them, but he also learns how to handpick, slaughter, and prepare the finest sheep for sale in their butcher shop.

Over the past decades, nomadic tribes and pastoral communities across Iran have gradually disintegrated, their ancestral traditions unraveling one by one. Yet, some tribes still resist forced dissolution and permanent urbanization. The Esmaeili tribe

The Turkmens have long believed that if they fall from their horse, they will lose their essence. Today, though they have fallen from the horse, it seems they have not yet fallen from their essence!

My old friend Kambiz Sabri, an Iranian sculptor, told me about a very short performance many years ago and insisted that I make a film as short as that.
I am a documentary filmmaker, and there isn't much fantasy in my films. Therefore, I always told

Ossa Jalil is one of the two elderly blacksmiths remaining in Masuleh. Although he continues to hammer on the anvil and hot iron beside the forge in his old age, the sorrow of losing his wife and the delusion of death never leave him.

For sixteen years, he was a teacher in the remote village of borzolan. He spent all his youth with the village children. Now, he was informed that his mother in the city had become sick and was alone. He had to either leave this mother, meaning borzo

Talesh. “Gisu” is a poor and lonely woman who lives in a forest hut. Years ago, due to an ailment, she lost her sight, but despite her loneliness and blindness, every now and then, she joyfully dyes her hair with henna with the help of her neighbors.

Yusef is an experienced herder who, due to suffering from acute cancer, has lost the ability to work. He transfers his cows and pasture to a young man who has recently quit his job as a factory guard in the city.

Four women from the village of Masuleh, alone yet together. They soothe their loneliness, in the absence of their children and husbands, in a shared courtyard. A courtyard that is the rooftop of another house.

Khosrow, eighty years old, has a daily routine where he takes his sick and elderly wife, along with her hand-knitted sock frames, to the lamppost outside their home four times a day and then brings her back inside. He spends his days wandering around

An old house in Isfahan. Four family members are debating whether to renovate the house or let it become a ruin and leave it; the desire to preserve and stay in the house is stronger than leaving it. In respect of the family's decision to preserve an

When walls collapse, doors and windows collapse with them, but doors and windows are more enduring. Collapsed walls are easier to rebuild. However, doors and windows have a different story.

Sattar Souqi is a poet from the Turkmen people. Now, he also provides bread for the people of his village. He, his wife, and sometimes his son work tirelessly to keep their bakery running. His own house is right next to the bakery, with its entrance

Khomam. Several generations of patients, who are now spending their old age, have been treated by him because they deeply believe in both him and his medical practice. They even get prescriptions from him when they are not ill, hoping that they won't

A documentary utilizing a portion of the footage and images that were intended for a multi-hour documentary titled 'Shamlou in the Mirror,' which, due to the untimely death of this esteemed poet and after a seventeen-year hiatus, has been transformed

The feature documentary 'A Godar Gathering' is a report on the music of a group of nomads from eastern Mazandaran, the Godar people. The Mazandaran nomads live scattered on the outskirts of towns and villages such as Nour, Chamestan, Amol, Babol, Qae

"Jahle" is a type of clay jug with a short or tall neck. People in the region of Hormozgan, until recently, used it to keep water cool in the scorching heat of the south. Only a few Jahle makers remain, mostly in Minab. Nowadays, Jahle is not only us

"Suru Neighborhood, Bandar Abbas.
"Uncle Ali," the protagonist of this documentary, is a retired fisherman who has spent years fishing and sailing. Now, he is an elderly man, weathered by the rigors of life, and remains as the last remnant of the man

"For fifteen years, throughout all seasons, from dawn to dusk, they venture into the forest and foothills, picking and digging edible wild plants. In spring and summer, they transplant rice seedlings in other people's fields in the plains and valleys

Mosayeb and Zahra, traversing their sixth decade side by side, find themselves unrewarded for their toil, despite the bountiful oranges of their orchard and the sugarcane fields. Alas, the orchard's oranges have perished in the cold, and half of thei

In a daily routine, ninety individuals with intellectual disabilities gather in one location. There, they are instructed on how to adapt to themselves, to others, and to their circumstances, using the limited cognitive abilities they possess. The aim

Ossa Ahmad is known to all the inhabitants of the semi-mountainous, semi-forested village of Mazandaran. He, in the past, has shaped and constructed the doors, windows, and ceilings of the neighboring houses and villages with his own hands. He is a n

Throughout the months of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the filmmaker spends his days and nights in quarantine conditions. He captures a series of such circumstances in fourteen episodes.

Morteza sells his entire life in the city and on the outskirts of the desert, buying an ancient castle connected to hectares of abandoned and untilled land, and thousands of hectares of semi-arid pasture for grazing, and two ruined Qantas. Now for th

This is the story of Mahmoud Zand Moghadam who has now transformed himself into a Baluch nomad; his ears, senses, flesh, bones, and clouded mind, all bear the marks of the suffering of this unfortunate people. His existence, wounded and battered by t

Felt or "Namad" is an underlay that is not woven. It is made from the fleece and wool of sheep, camels, and rabbits, and it's crafted by kneading, pounding, and rubbing with human hands, feet, and elbows. Felt is one of the oldest and most primitive

Name: Khalil. His profession: shepherd. Another skill of his, playing the “LaleVa” instrument. He isn't, by today's standards, considered an artist, as both of these professions are inseparable. Playing the “LaleVa is intertwined with shepherding. As

Generations ago, amidst the lush landscapes of Mazandaran, mothers in both rustic hamlets and bustling towns bore forth abundant offspring. They not only nurtured their broods but also toiled the earth and deftly wove on looms whatever their hearts d

The erasure of a city’s memory is to abandon its old homes to ruin. It matters not who once owned each house; the more the city empties of them, the closer it draws to its own grave.

A simple reflection on the coexistence of humans with nature and animals.

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