Akbar Meshkini has been a Set Designer in some movies:
Sex and Philosophy is about that A 40 year old man who has celebrated his birthday alone by himself invites his four lovers to a dance class that he teaches. He searches for the roots of his own loneliness and by reminiscing the memories of how each of his love affairs were evolved and diminished, he realizes that the more the contemporary world has become sexually oriented, the farther it has moved away from love.. In this film Akbar Meshki
...ni collaborates with Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Hossein Mahdavi, Ebrahim Ghafouri, Daler Nazarov, Mariam Gaibova, Farzana Beknazarov, Tahmineh Ebrahimova, Malohat Abdulloeva, Vanessa Mai, Nadira Abdullaeva, Ali Akbar Abdulloev, Dilafruz Burkhanova, Lutfullo Davlat, Malika Gadoeva, Nika Gafurova, Gulrukhsor Gayurova, Turana Ismail, Tamanno Karimova, Nodira Mazitova, Nasiba Nasimova, Ahliddin Sharipov, Neekqadam Shohnazarov, Zarina Shugaipova, Nikolai Tibikin, Margarita Yen, Nahid Zeinalpur.
Kandahar is about that Nafas is a young Afghan journalist who has taken refuge in Canada. She receives a desperate letter from her little sister, who has stayed behind in Afghanistan and has decided to end her life before the imminently approaching eclipse of the sun. Nafas fled her country during the Taliban civil war. She decides to go and help her sister in Kandahar and attempts to cross the Iran Afghanistan border. In this film Akbar Meshkini collaborates with Mohammad Reza Sharifinia, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Hossein Mahdavi, Farrokh Fadaee, Behrouz Shahamat, Mohammad Reza Darvishi, Ebrahim Ghafouri, Siamak Alagheband, Niloufar Pazira, Hassan Tantai, Sarv Teymouri, Hayatolah Karimi, Safdar Shojai, Mohammad Heidr Barbari, Moa Zaher Teimouri, Monica Hankieh, Mohammad Javad Arefian, Zahra Shafahi, Nafas Gol, Ike Ogut, Sadou Teymouri, Hoyatala Hakimi, Noam Morgensztern, Mollazaher Teymouri, Kamran Khalaj.
The Day I Became a Woman is about that The Day I Became a Woman comprised of three interconnected vignettes that depict women at three stages of life in Iran. Episode one, entitled 'Havva' concerns a young girl on the morning of her ninth birthday. Against her better wishes, she is forced to stay home, away from her best friend who has asked her to play with him, due to her mother and grandmother's proclamation that she is now a woman. Learning she was born at noon, the young girl requests one more hour to do what she wishes so she can be a girl one last time. Episode two, entitled 'Ahoo', follows a young woman who is being pursued on horseback by her stern husband, whom she is fleeing on bicycle in the midst of a women's biking race. Soon, her in-laws and relatives are also pursuing her, and she must make a quick decision about whether or not to return to family life. The final episode, called 'Houra', follows an elderly woman who enlists the help of a young boy and his friends to take her on a shopping spree, where she intends to buy all of the things she has ever wanted out of life. In this film Akbar Meshkini collaborates with Marzieh Makhmalbaf, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mohammad Ahmadi, Shabnam Tolouei, Moharram Zeinalzadeh, Behrouz Shahamat, Mohammad Reza Darvishi, Abbas Rastegarpour, Ebrahim Ghafouri, Shahrzad Pouya, Maysam Makhmalbaf, Fatemeh Cherag Akhar, Hassan Nebhan, Shahr Banou Sisizadeh, Ameneh Passand, Norieh Mahigiran, Azizeh Sedighi, Badr Iravani.
Buddha Collapsed out of Shame is about that A young girl zealously wants to go to school and learn to read and write. Almost everywhere she is met with hostility or indifference. It must not go unnoticed that the schoolgirls and the female teacher are likewise hostile toward this girl. None of them want her in the classroom. On her way home she and other girls are taken as prisoners by boys playing talibans. What will happen next? In this film Akbar Meshkini collaborates with Hana Makhmalbaf, Marzieh Makhmalbaf, Mastaneh Mohajer, Farid Pirayesh, Wild Bunch, Abbas Alijome, Abdolali Hosseinali, Nikbakht Noruz, Ostad Ali, Tolibhon Shakhidi.
Two Legged Horse is about that A father sets out to find someone who can attend to his severely disabled son, a young boy who is unable to walk; Mirvais, one of the inhabitants of the pipes, is willingly hired to carry the boy around on his back. It is not long, however, before Mirvais's simple duties are extended by his new young master. Mobile for the first time in years, the boy sees an opportunity to use Mirvais for his own ends. In this film Akbar Meshkini collaborates with Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Samira Makhmalbaf, Hossein Mahdavi, Houra Maleki, Farzad Jodat, Tolibhon Shakhidi, Mehrdad Zonnur, Ziya Mirza Mohamad, Haron Ahad, Gol Ghotai Karimi, Khojeh Nader, Yasin Tavildar.
Stray Dogs is about that A woman is unaware of his husband for five years. She thinks he has been killed so she marries another man. After a while, he returns and when he sees that his wife has married another man, complains and accuses her without even thinking about her children. The kids spend their life by beggary and selling garbage and at night they come back to their mother in prison. They save a stray baby dog , and decide to keep it. When the police finds out about the situation, they are banned from coming to prison and when they understand that prison is for keeping the criminals, they try to commit a crime; so they go for small robberies, but they are always forgiven by the people . Upon watching the "Bicycle Thieves" movie in cinema, they decide to rob a bicycle in public to be arrested. The girl is afraid to be beaten during the robbery, so his brother takes her and the dog in a safe place and promises her to introduce her as his colleague when he is arrested and beaten by people. When police arrests him, no one hears him telling about his sister in the crowd. The girl runs following the car but she is wandered among the cyclists around her. The boy is delivered to a penitentiary while he was trying to reach his mother in prison. The girl is alone and wandered, but she eventually makes a decision and takes the dog in a place telling it to stay there. The baby dog watches the girl going and some time later the voice of a boy is heard yelling "my bicycle is stolen". There are also police whistles and noise of the crowd. The baby dog is curious and begins to bark. The girl's voice who is arrested is heard harder and harder. The baby dog is alone and it barks to call the girl and her brother. In this film Akbar Meshkini collaborates with Marzieh Makhmalbaf, Mohammad Ahmadi, Mastaneh Mohajer, Farrokh Fadaee, Mohammad Reza Darvishi, Ebrahim Ghafouri, Maysam Makhmalbaf, Agheleh Rezaie, Gol Ghotai Karimi, fakhreddin Ayyam, Sohrab Akbari, Jamil Ghanazideh, agheleh Shamsollah, Razeddin Sayyar, Maydeh Gol, Ghomri Valad Amir, Shah Mahmood Golbahari, Emameddin Vakil, Akhtar Abdolaziz.
Osama is about that After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a pre-teen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother. In this film Akbar Meshkini collaborates with Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mastaneh Mohajer, Hossein Mahdavi, Farrokh Fadaee, Behrouz Shahamat, Mohammad Reza Darvishi, Ebrahim Ghafouri, Marina Golbahari, Makoto Ueda, Khojeh Nader, Siddiq Barmak, Julia Fraser, Julie LeBrocquy, Mohammad Arif Herati, Zubaida Sahar, Hamida Refah, Gul Rehman Ghorbandi, Mohammad Nadir Khwaja, Marcus Sujata.
Other films are:
Bump, Blackboards
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