Negative Memories

A young playwright and director wants to write and perform a historical drama about faith in the Ashkani period of Iran. There is an incongruity between the man's personal life, and his quest to pursue and present history. The woman who lives with him believes he should not neglect their relationship when embarking on such a quest. The people who work with the playwright believe the play ought to be made popular to satisfy the public. Finally, this matter makes the playwright perform the play all by himself.

Mossadegh, Another Viewpoint brings together nearly a dozen interviews, personally conducted by Saber in 2009-2010. Most of the interviewees were closely associated with Mossadegh during the last decade of his life, while he was living under house arrest in his ancestral village of Ahmadabad.

Every year in the middle of winter, the residents of the village of Oraman Takht in Kurdistan hold a ceremony in memory of a mystic man for two weeks. This film is a look at this ritual.

The documentary "Blacks of Southern Iran" is about the history and origin of blacks in the south of our country, where they entered Iran and how they got used to the culture and customs there over the years.

The documentary "Taraz" is about a group of nomads in Bakhtiari alley who live in two provinces of Khuzestan (tropical region) and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari (cold region) every year according to the hot and cold seasons. The group, which spends seven months of the year in an area north of Masjid Suleiman (Andika), migrates from this area to their summer territory on the southern slopes of Zardkuh in late April. As the weather cools in their cold territory and before rain and snow fall, they return to their winter territory in Khuzestan province in September. (A group of nomads about whom the film Taraz has been made is a few families from the "Bamdi" tribe of the "Haft Lang" Bakhtiari tribe.)

Since the late thirties, our lake has been drying up. Sometimes it is full of water and sometimes it is short of water. In the last two years, the drought has intensified and now Lake Hamoon is completely dry. Since the 1930s, a group of people from Sistan migrated to Golestan and Mazandaran provinces due to drought, and the migration process is still going on.

Part of the population of Sistan and Baluchestan province for historical-political and social reasons have not yet been able to obtain identity cards and are deprived of government social support such as insurance and subsidies. Lack of identity cards is a factor that leads to unemployment and wrongdoing.