Homayoun Ershadi

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Homayoun Ershadi (sometimes spelled Homayon Ershadi), is an Iranian actor. Ershadi was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1947. He studied architecture in Italy and worked in that field. Acclaimed Iranian New Wave director Abbas Kiarostami chose him to play the leading role in Taste of Cherry. A non-professional actor, who started acting in his middle age, he has had immediate success in both cinema and television, with his expressionless, relaxed face and monotonous voice often giving his characters an intellectual personality. Most recently he can be seen in the movie The Kite Runner, playing the role of Baba. He is one of few Iran-based Iranian actors that are permitted to act in Western movies. He currently resides in Karaj, Iran. Born : 26th-Mar-1947

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Taste of Cherry

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
Released : 28th-Sep-1997

Agora

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.
Released : 17th-May-2009

The Sinners

Two homicide detectives investigates the murder of a woman ...
Released : 2nd-Oct-2013

The Pear Tree

A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit.
Released : 18th-Oct-1998

The Kite Runner

After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Released : 14th-Dec-2007

A Most Wanted Man

A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.
Released : 25th-Jul-2014

Utopia

Three interwoven stories of loneliness and isolation that centre around Janan, a woman from Afghanistan who travels to the UK for artificial insemination. Complications arise when William, a medical sciences student working in the clinic switches the donor's semen for his own.
Released : 15th-Jul-2015

Ali and Nino

Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.
Released : 27th-Jan-2016

The Fifth Reaction

Fereshteh loses her home and her two sons after her husband's accidental death when Hadj Safdar, her stubborn and powerful father-in-law, forces her to return to her parents. She is faced with the loss of her visitation rights when Hadj plans to send his grandchildren to live in a remote town. With the help of her circle of women friends she tries to take them beyond his reach, but in a patriarchal society it is hard to find a safe haven.
Released : 1st-Jan-2003

Orange Suit

The story of a professional photographer Hamed Aban and the radical change in his life. The teacher of his son gives him a book about nature and the cleaning of it. This changes him radically. He goes and hires himself in the municipality, wearing the orange suit like them and cleaning the streets, collecting garbage. Meanwhile his wife who is in Europe back home and is very angry with him. She insists on him to get back to his former work but he refusing. Then she wants a divorce and to take the son with herself to Europe.
Released : 3rd-Feb-2012

The Little Black Fish

Released : 27th-Oct-2015

A Simple Love Story

Gandom and Ali, who have been in love since childhood, have to overcome many obstacles to be together.
Released : 19th-Dec-2012

Inadvertent

Sometimes you try to control your surrounding events, but sometimes inadvertent occasions will change the course of your life.
Released : 22nd-Oct-2014

Mohey

Mohey is separated from her twin sister and abused after she is plucked from an orphanage as a girl. She becomes trapped in a life of underhand dealings and illegal trading, where her intellect and beauty are used as commodities. When she is coerced into a temporary marriage to secure a deal...
Released : 2nd-Dec-2017

One Of Us

Sarah is an architect who tries to figure out the best way to treat her boss.
Released : 11th-Oct-2011

Facing Mirrors

Rana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transsexual man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same journey and caused to know each other in a better way.
Released : 24th-Oct-2012

Italy Italy

Barfa and Nader meet each other and get marry but little by little their life begin to reach it's crisis levels.
Released : 4th-Oct-2017

The Queen

During the war between Iran and Iraq, a scout (Milad Keymaram), in the Abadan Oil Refinery, tries to reveal geographical coordinates of Iraqi soldiers' ambushes for Iranian army forces to kill them easily by bombardments. Meanwhile, he confronts with the soul of the previous killed scout (Mostafa Zamani) who did the same which makes a challenge for him, between his own human deep feelings and killing innocent people of enemy ...
Released : 11th-Jun-2012

The Last Inhabitant

In an Armenian village, evicted as a result of the Armenian-Azeri conflict, Abgar stays behind all alone in a gradually shrinking enemy ring. He is waiting for his daughter, who became a witness to her husband's murder by an angry mob and was hospitalized with a mental disorder. An Azeri named Ibrahim offers Abgar to work on the construction of a mosque and promises to find and bring Abgar's daughter instead... A few days later, Ibrahim finds the girl, named Yurga, in one of the psychiatric hospitals of Baku and brings her to Abgar. Abgar wants to leave the village with his daughter, but his skills as a stonemason are still needed for the construction of a new mosque. Abgar realizes that this work in the Azerbaijani village will be endless and realizes that he's been trapped.
Released : 12th-Jul-2016

The Turned World

Released : 30th-Jun-2011

Disturbant

An unknown woman disturbs the marriage of a cinema superstar.
Released : 20th-Feb-2002

Cypress Under Water

The secret of the worldview of dignity is revealed? This mystery of sleep will spit Marsh, Mahro, Goodarz, Bahram, Jahangir Major Pushis. Jahanbakhsh begins a long journey to prove his innocence and the return of tranquility. A journey that will end the life of many of them.
Released : 21st-Nov-2018

Hattrick

Four friends run over something after a party in this psychological thriller set in Iran of the empty lives of the middle class when they get together in groups, emotional explosions start happening along moral fault lines.
Released : 20th-Apr-2018

Aal

An Iranian horror film.
Released : 1st-Jan-2010

Portrait of a Lady Far Away

An old engineer who has separated from his wife and son and is living alone receive a phone call from a woman who tells him she wants to commit suicide. This put him to face a challenge.
Released : 3rd-Jul-2005

A 5 Star

A story about a poor girl working in a 5 star hotel in tehran and the workers of the hotel when somthing priceless will stolen...
Released : 7th-May-2014

Calm Breaths

Mahia and Reza are a young couple shortly planning to marry. Reza is an architectural engineer and Mahia is his student. An accident in the neighbourhood takes place that changes the course of both their lives.
Released : 1st-Jan-2017

Life with Closed Eyes

Released : 1st-Jan-2010

Aseman-e Mahboob

Released : 4th-Jan-2011

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.
Released : 20th-Jan-2008

Zero Dark Thirty

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.
Released : 19th-Dec-2012

Cheque

Despite their different characters and beliefs, four persons are obliged to spend two nights and one whole day together as they are going to have their shares after cashing a check.
Released : 9th-May-2012

Kakadu

Directed by Tahmineh Milani.
Released : 1st-Apr-1995

Havana File

A scientist has to face many hurdles to be able to continue his work.
Released : 1st-Apr-2006

Good to Be Back

Dentist Farzad has returned to Iran after many years abroad to escape his anxieties and daily stresses. Farzad is delighted to be reunited with his old friend, Kambiz, who has been his seaside neighbor for years. However, the appearance of a mysterious object scuppers any hopes of a straightforward homecoming. When a doctor, Yasamin, gets dragged into the story, Farzad and Kambiz find their friendship threatened. A tale of chaos and the nostalgia of home, this comedy offers superb performances from its leads.
Released : 29th-May-2013

Waiting for Kiarostami

Inspired by real events, Waiting for Kiarostami focuses on the life of Dorsa, a medical student at Ningbo University in China, who has to choose between her father’s wish for her to become a doctor, and her own passion to become a singer and an actress. When Hossein Khandan nominates Dorsa to play the leading role in Abbas Kiarostami’s next film slated to shoot in China, Dorsa’s mom, who shares her passion for acting and the arts and is unconditionally on Dorsa’s side, becomes an acting coach to help her through the casting process; whereas her father opposes his daughter’s involvement in anything other than her studies. Dorsa faces some challenges in her quest to find a balance between her true passion and her family life.
Released : 4th-Dec-2017

From Afar

"From Afar" traces the malaise of a young artist and intellectual in three episodes: Book Burning, Breathing and Dawn. The Young protagonist lives in contemporary Tehran and he appears as a film student, an asthmatic businessman and a successful architect. In each story, he journeys toward a spiritual insight or emotion.
Released : 10th-Oct-2006

No Choice

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.
Released : 3rd-Nov-2020

Apparition

A drunken, boorish general tyrannises his wife and his maid. When the wife discovers that her husband and the maid are having an affair, she turns the maid out of the house, little realising that the young woman is pregnant with the general's child. Years later, the general is dead, and a younger generation has risen with a new outlook on life and new problems to face... This flamboyantly stylised melodrama, loosely adapted from Ibsen, is the newest work by one of the legendary figures of Iran's New Wave.
Released : 22nd-Jun-2014

The Wet Dream

16 year-old Arash is reaching puberty. After years of living with his mother, he leaves her to live with his father. Once there, he visits a girl who changes his life.
Released : 4th-Feb-2006

Somewhere Else

Five characters are stuck on an island, from where they hope to escape to "somewhere else", the utopia of their dreams. Dr. Tavussi (Ahmad Najafi) offers to help them illegally cross the ...
Released : 22nd-Oct-2003

Close to Kiarostami

A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his works both inside and outside his homeland.
Released : 1st-Jan-2000

Revision Sentence

Released : 9th-Dec-2021

The Town

The story of a young man who is interested in acting, who is accepted in the audition of a big movie, and in order to join this project and achieve his dream of becoming an actor, he has to accept the special conditions and mental and psychological exercises of the acting group in an isolated town.
Released : 2nd-Feb-2022

Mahan

Mahan finds out that he has cancer
Released : 1st-Feb-2022

Laleh

Laleh is a true story of a young woman in post-revolution Iran, struggling against all odds to break through in one of the most male dominated sports worldwide.
Released : 18th-Mar-2022

Lina

Maryam finds out that her parents are not her biological parents.
Released : 7th-Nov-2017

The Sixth Day

A prisoner named Ahmed, who has only five days to find the answer to a few riddles in order to survive.
Released : 25th-Jun-2022

Blue Like the Sky

A documentary about the history of Esteghlal F.C. From Docharkheh savaran to Taj, to Esteghlal.
Released : 1st-Jan-2019

Dead End of Trust

It's a simple story of fondness. "Dead End of Trust" tells the story of a love - from inside - a love made of same "blood" still some time remains which is worth more than what has lasted so far.
Released : 7th-Feb-2017

The Return Of Soraya M: A Story Of Revenge

A Story of Revenge
Released : 6th-Oct-2025

TV Credits

شمس العماره

- A TV series directed by Saman Moghaddam.
Released : Unknown

سایه باز

- Barzo Shams, a successful businessman and tower builder, meets his old friend on the night of his only grandson's naming ceremony. Now this meeting has exposed Barzo's past life and will change his life.
Released : 1st-Oct-2023

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