Mehrad Sepahnia

Making the invisible visible is the motto of this short film. In this film “The Redeemer” we dealt with the invisible border in Leni Riefenstahl's film “Triumf des Willens”. It was important for us to make visible the resistance against totalitarian power in history.

Différance is a term coined by Jacques Derrida. The film is inspired by this term. It alters picture framing which is having different border. It will represent presence and absence in time in the différance.

3xƐ is a free adaptation of Arrivederci, a short story by Alberto Moravia. The film explores the representation of time through cinema, where the present is constantly interrupted by fragments of memory and imagined futures. Rather than unfolding as a linear narrative, time is refracted through light, reflections, and layered images, allowing different worlds and temporalities to coexist within one another.

One night in a village , a farmer returns home to prepare his meal and settle in for the night. However, as he attempts to sleep, he is unexpectedly confronted with revelations each representing one of the three Abrahamic religions. Throughout the night, he experiences three distinct situations unfolding in his tiny house.

In this tale appeared bloody waters. Now the apocalypse. Only one day after the apocalypse, homo will come. He is expected to come, but our laws are not generally known to him. Because of this reason, he and his colleagues crush again. Bloody water appears again.

It seems two real worlds and in between is a dream. The dream is a transition from one world to another, entry into another world. A flowing real world reflects on each other.

Blick follows a journey through the space between reality and imagination, where everyday moments blend with thoughts, memories, and inner noise.

Inspired by the legend of Gog and Magog and Sadegh Hedayat’s Afarinegan, the film reimagines an ancient apocalyptic myth through two girls, drifting between dream and prophecy.

Soma/Homa unfolds within the confines of a modest student flatshare in a small Iranian town, where a group of young people navigate the fragile terrain of everyday life. Between moments of laughter, silence, intoxication, and quiet despair, the film traces their shared routines, longings, and disillusionments shaped by the unseen pressure of state repression. It is a meditation on life and death, drugs and dreams, where survival is both physical and emotional.

An anthology of female-focused stories about finding your voice, living your truth and learning to persist in the face of hardship.

The film is an experimental exploration of aimless wanderings through the city. It takes the viewer on an odyssey-like journey through the mind, challenging the boundaries between imagination and everyday life while reflecting on society and the alienation of personal life from the public sphere.

Blind, ins Auge examines the targeted violence during the 2022–23 Iran protests and sheds light on the powerful role of images in the political context. The film shows the editing process in which the authors mix subjective and objective narratives.

The essay film "Future is Feminine" reflects chronologically with the film archive material from the 'Resistance Stories of the Feminist Movement', and tries to show their topicality.

Come and Go is a free adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s minimalist play, reimagined as an experimental film. This cinematic interpretation brings Beckett’s absurdism to life through visual language, navigating the blurred borders between reality and illusion. With a distilled aesthetic and rhythmic pacing, the film explores the quiet tensions, repetitions, and silences that define the human condition evoking a world where presence and absence continuously shift.

An anthology of 7 different women in 7 different worlds with 7 different colors, as well as their remarkable experiences. Self-Reflection and Re-reflection, feeling of the moment, broken lines, unclosed and resumed forms, this is the different situations in 7+1 fragments that appear next to each other - even inside each other. 7+1 Fragments consists of 7 fragments, each with a female narrative with different characters and different colors, forms, and different Moments, which meet each other in the eighth (last) fragment.

An old man who works in a school is spending the last day of his life, and at the same time a religious carnival is taking place in the city. It is a matter of two plane stories that constantly combine one after the other and flow parallel to both stories. One level is life of an old person and the other level is ceremonial death, and in the end both levels arrive together.