Mehrdad Oskouei

A Fox Under a Pink Moon (2025)

At just 16, Soraya is already creating stunning drawings and sculptures that are as beautiful as they are dark. This strong-willed Afghan sculptor and illustrator has been trying for five years to escape Iran and join her mother in Austria. ...

Sunless Shadows (2022)

In an Iranian juvenile detention center, a group of adolescent girls serve their sentence for the grave crime of murdering their father, their husband or another male family member. ...

Starless Dreams (2017)

Heavy snow falls from the sky as heavily-armed guards patrol the walls of an Iranian centre of correction and rehabilitation. Inside, the girls are waiting at the food counter. Among them are underage mothers and others who are married. All of them ended u ...

The Last Days of Winter (2012)

It's Always Late for Freedom (2007)

A documentary depicting the life of three teenager boys in the Tehran House of Correction. They are portrayed as victims of serious social problems such as addiction, poverty, and divorce. ...

Nose Iranian Style (2006)

A look at the reasons why every year 70,000 Iranians have a nose job. ...

The Other Side of Burka (2004)

The Other Side of Burka is a 2004 Iranian documentary directed by Mehrdad Oskouei. In the southern island of Qeshm, Iran, which is a very strict region in point of tradition and African-Arabic rules, all women are under the pressure of patriarch society. T ...

The Widower (2002)

A documentary short. ...

I Can't Remember Anything About Afghanistan! (2002)

A documentary short. ...

The Eclipse (2001)

A documentary short. ...

My Mother's Home, Lagoon (2000)

Each day before dawn, 67-year-old Kobra goes fishing in a small rowing boat tied to her porch. Her house stands on the water's edge. It is a tough life. She tries to sell her meager catch at the local market to support herself and her old invalid mother, b ...

Another Birth (1988)

Documentarian Mehrdad Oskouei's debut short, shot on Super 8mm. ...

Uno sguardo alla Terra (2018)

Sardinia 2017. The starting point for the film is one of the most loved lands in the Mediterranean, using it to enter into the world of cinema. Ten international masters of cinema explain Fiorenzo Serra's images, one of the greatest post-war Italian docume ...

Reluctant Bachelor (2011)

We had a comfortable life until my father went bankrupt and I blamed him for our misfortune. Being 30 and still living with my parents, I do not speak with my father. It is my brother's wedding and I'm not attending his ceremony. I asked my friend to film ...