Amir Naderi

A woman continuously solves crossword puzzles everywhere she goes; in subway trains, on buses, and on the streets of New York City.

An 11-year old deaf-mute boy sets out to find an audio cassette his mother recorded shortly before her death, which may be locked in a storage room. (imdb)

Eddie who lives in Vegas gets a tip which convinces him that there's money buried in his yard.

Amiro is a young boy who has lost his home during the war. He spends his days by working odd jobs, until he realizes that the only way that he can realize his dreams is by enrolling in school. (imdb)

Using stark black-and-white imagery and a raw, digital aesthetic, Cut tells the story of Shuji (Hidetoshi Nishijima), an unknown filmmaker who craves great cinema like a junkie dying for a fix. The only problem, he figures, is that great films are dead -- unless he can find a way to make them himself.

Stories around a harmonica and competition ...

Naderi's second film is set in the slums of Tehran. Hanging out in a pool hall, Ali Khoshdast becomes involved in a brawl with three brothers, and accidently kills one of them. (imdb)

Willpower against stone, determination against fate, one man against a mountain... Many years ago, in medieval times, in a village at the feet of a mountain, lives Agostino with his wife Nina and their son Giovanni. Agostino is a hard-working farmer to no avail: the mountain prevented the sun from reaching their land, and they could grow nothing. After many misadventures, one morning Nina and Giovanni are woken up by a repetitive and incessant sound. (IKSV)

Naser who is a smart and experienced young guy knows that his retirement time from crime is near. He decides to do his last robbery and then marry the girl he loves 'Shirin'. He robs a jewelry with the help of Jalal and Khosrow. Khosrow betrays them and steal the money and runs away. Naser and Jalal find him and take the money back, but then begin to fight each other (imdb.com).

This film, based on a well-known novel of the same name by Sadegh Chooback, is about a wronged man seeking revenge. Director Amir Naderi's inspiration for making the film was one of his childhood heroes, the legendary Zar Mohammad, who waged a one-man war against four swindlers and provoked wide spread popular sentiment against tyranny (imdb)

REQUIEM begins as Nasrollah, just released from prison, returns home to discover that his mother has died while he was incarcerated. Nasrollah hits the streets looking for work, but finding none he resumes his previous life as a street peddler. Casting his lot with two other peddlers, with whom he becomes roommates, for a while Nasrollah seems to achieve once again a sense of community and belonging (imdb)

Ali is a young boxer who is going to America to pursue his dream of becoming a champion, but very soon is trapped by a gangster mob. He get involved with them agreeing to follow their orders. He wins his boxing matches and everything is OK until they order him to loose a match. He wins that match causing them to loose a lot of money so they beat him to death (imdb)

It all began with "Black Friday" - a massacre on Sept 8, 1978, by the Shah's police. Official pronouncements put the death toll at 200, but the next day the people of Teheran witnessed how thousands of bodies were brought to Behast Zahra cemetery. Yet even this wasn't the whole extent of the tragedy. As the families continued looking for their relatives they began to realize just how many had disappeared (imdb.com).

A young teenager returns home after an absence to find his village in Iran deserted because of an incredibly severe drought. He begins a search to find his family, traveling through an amazingly bleak and desolate landscape (imdb)

MANHATTAN BY NUMBERS is the story of George Murphy, a laid-off newspaperman who has 24 hours to come up with the back rent he owes or be put out in the street. Desperately, he sets out to find an old friend who might help, yet when he discovers that his old friend has seemingly disappeared, George's search begins to take on a whole different meaning.

Three women are to make vital decisions about their future. Colleen wants to be a photographer but can't support her daughter Stella. Casey is looking for her dog stolen by her ex-boyfriend and lesbian lover who has dumped her. Kate decided to break up with Stevie and start living on her own (imdb)

Mitch is a 22 year-old projectionist who is loading the last film for the final screening at a small theatre that is about to be converted into a digital cineplex. He dreads loading this last film reel into the projector because he knows it will drag him into yet another desperate search for love now lost. He gazes through the small projection window, onto the flickering light of the screen and then somehow farther, into another world; a world that is his and his alone.He sees another version...