Shahram Mokri
Born in Marand, Iran, Shahram Mokri is a graduate of Cinema from Tehran's Soureh College. His repertoire includes editing eight TV dramas, two TV series and more than 20 short and documentary films that brought him national and international recognition. Shahram's debut feature film, Ashkan, The Charmed Ring And Other Stories, had its international premiere at the Busan International Film Festival in 2009. His second feature film, Fish and Cat (2013), has been received with phenomenal success in Iranian cinema between 2013 and 2014, topping the box-office in Iran. It has also screened in more than 80 prestigious film festivals and collected 15 awards.
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Ashkan, The Charmed Ring & Other Stories
Directed by Shahram Mokri • Drama • With Sina Razani, Reza Behboudi • 2008 • 89 minutes
Iranian independent director Shahram Mokri's first feature is a delightfully offbeat B&W mystery / comedy about the mysterious workings of Fate, played out in deadpan Jim Jarmusch-meets-Tarantino vignettes.
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Fish & Cat
Directed by Shahram Mokri • Drama • With Ainaz Azarhoush, Abed Abest • 2013 • 142 minutes
A group of attractive young Iranian kite-flying enthusiasts gather at a dismal lake, near a restaurant where two sinister characters straight out of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE are serving up grisly fare in Ira...
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Careless Crime
Directed by Shahram Mokri • Drama • With Razie Mansori, Babak Karimi, Adel Yaraghi • 2020 • 136 minutes
Inspired by a real-life tragedy, the infamous Cinema Rex fire in 1978 that triggered the Iranian Revolution, Iranian independent director Shahram Mokri's mind-bending mystery leapfrogs between...
