Sepideh Farsi

The Siren (2023)

November 1980. Southern Iran. We are at the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war. Abadan, the capital of the Iranian petrol industry resists the repeated assaults of the Iraqi army, but is soon under full siege. Omid, a 14-year-old boy, has stayed back in the ci ...

Letter to an Unborn Child (2022)

The film is a well dug into the past. Made with bits of an unfinished film, "Red Shoes," which was to be the director's very first auto-produced short film, but that remained "unborn" due to lack of money. What links the 16 mm footage that is the body of t ...

I Will Cross Tomorrow (2019)

The brief but intense encounter of a Greek police officer and a Syrian refugee changes the way the two see this world. ...

30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille (2019)

For the 30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille about thirty directors have done us the honor of offering us some very beautiful short films. ...

7 Veils (2017)

From Afghanistan, little is known but a few cliches, the word Taliban, and a war that seems to have never ceased since the Soviet era and its new turn taken since 2001. A country devastated in a state of permanent conflict, a population deeply marked: how ...

Red Rose (2014)

A politically complacent middle-aged man and a young pro-democracy activist debate about the future of their country while hiding from the police, in this fascinating drama that blends scripted scenes with on-the-ground footage from Iran's 2009 Green Revol ...

The House under the Water (2010)

"Morteza, in his fifties and just out of jail, is trying to rebuild his life. However, when he is implicated in the drowning death of a child, he is instantly assumed to be guilty. Taher, the police officer assigned to the case, first believes in his guilt ...

Tehran Without Permission (2009)

Sepideh Farsi left Tehran in her teens, yet has always remained under the spell of Iran's lively capital. In 'Tehran Without Permission', Farsi creates a collage-style portrait of a city in flux. Via a mixture of characters and cityscapes, Farsi's covert f ...

Harat (2007)

Sepideh and Darya. Mother and daughter. A successful young filmmaker and a child with clear ideas about how to make a film. Together they make a long journey to meet members of their large family: From Paris to Tehran and further beyond the Afghanistan bor ...

Le Voyage de Maryam (2003)

Feux (2023)

Karun, a stray dog, fights to survive in a chaotic environment ravaged by drought. ...

Le Voyage de Maryam (2003)