Mahaya Petrossian
Acting
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Known For
Digeh Che Khabar!?
The film is about an imaginative and lively student who transforms her immediate family and surroundings when she talks herself into writing a novel.
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
The film follows a character known as The Cinematographer, who is looking for someone called Atieh (Future). As he calls out to her, he is magically transported back in time from the early twentieth century to the reign of Naser al-Din Shah in 19th century Iran. Captured by the Shah's guards, he shows films from the history of Iranian cinema to the Shah. The Shah is entranced and eagerly shows his family the apparently magical medium.
Shirin
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
The Last Act
Kamran and Moluk, middle-aged siblings, live penniless in the family's Tehran mansion, selling furniture to pay expenses. Their brother, who owns the house, has died suddenly, and his widow, Forugh, is coming from the provinces to visit. Kamran writes an elaborate script and hires a troupe of five actors to be the household servants. The purpose of the charade, which will seem real to Forugh, is to drive her mad, perhaps to suicide, so that Kamran and Moluk can inherit the house. The play is elaborate, Forugh is fooled and terrified, and the police can't substantiate her wild claims. She appears insane to them. All is headed for the mysterious last act.
Absolutely Tame Is a Horse
A corrupted police officer insists on bribing a broke man, so he has to go to everybody and do everything in order to be able to pay him in the very night.
The Actor
An Iranian actor named Akbar is trying to become a serious actor instead of the clown everyone considers him to be. However financial problems force him to abandon his dream of being an artistic actor. He also has to deal with his family problems and his wife's inability to become pregnant.
Single 40 years old
It narrates the life of a 40-year-old female doctor who is skilled and specialized in her field, but has problems in the field of marriage and choosing a spouse.
The Lucky Bride
Donya is a wealthy woman but she is not living a happy life, she goes to a psychiatrist and starts telling him the story of her life; how she has gotten married and widowed three times.
Asphyxia
I was suffocating, but I don't kill her. I love it.
Los Angeles/Tehran
Two men come to Iran. One to visit his grandmother and another as an art dealer. When they discover that they are neighbors, the story begins.
Filmography
as Linda
as Zan Hamsayeh
as Zivar
as Donya Mazaheri
as Azar
as Niloofar
as Gipsy girl
as Fereshteh Khalesi
as Soboli
as Gherghi