Sohrab Shahid Saless Movies

A treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws of lust-as-commerce is played out by five...

The story of a ten years old Iranian schoolboy living with his mother and his father in Northern coasts of Iran. The boy helps his father in selling...

It's about an old man, a crime, bureaucracy and remorse

A young boy learns of his mother's occupation while trying to save money for a bicycle.

Iranian director Sohrab Shahid Saless has succeeded in taking on an unusual project — the life and times of a German literary figure —...

A railway crossing guard and his wife live in a routine of total isolation and uneventfulness.

Documentary on the life of Cechov.

A different film about Sohrab Shahidsaless, the late Iranian filmmaker. In this lengthy documentary, video images and unseen shots from Sohrab Shahid...

A boy called Mahmud writes a letter to his friends out in the world about what is going on in the Afghanistan capital.

Set on the southern coast of Iran, "Harmonica" begins as a young boy receives a musical present from abroad. Fascinated and envious, his friends make...

Short film made with stop motion animation techniques.

Historian, author, and movie critic Lotte H. Eisner is the subject of this documentary. She recalls her early childhood in Germany and her...

Turkish immigrant Husseyin spends his days in hypnotic routine as a “guest worker” in ‘70s West Berlin, living in a small, shared...

Herbert (Heinz Lieven) is a solid, middle-class engineer who one day quits his job and ensconces himself at home (preferably in the bathroom),...

Left behind by his mother, an alcoholic prostitute, Georg grew up carelessly with his aunt and grandmother. As an adult he works in a department...

A young man lives through the end of World War II

Filmmaker Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa interviews the veteran filmmaker three weeks before his death in an effort to introduce American cinephiles to his life...

A married couple adopts a child. The mother's relashionship with the new family member quickly deteriorates.

Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless by Mahmoud Behraznia is a documentary with a different perspective on Sohrab Shahid Saless, a leading Iranian filmmaker....

A psychodrama about how injustice is turned into oblivion about an opportunity worker and a woman from the civil house of a marriage for 30 years ....