Born in 1957, Mohsen Abdolvahab started his cinematic activities in 1980 by editing documentary and fictional films. In addition to writing and directing two feature films Please Don’t Bother and To Be Born, he is also one of the best-known Iranian documentary makers in Iran. He has researched and/or directed more than 20 documentary films including Jobseekers in Two Shots, Lakh Mazar, and Haji Abbas’ Wives. He also has co-directed two feature films with director Rakhshan Banietemad: Gilaneh and
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Please Don't Disturb is about that Three interwoven stories about life in modern day Iran that explore the redemptive qualities of human nature. A TV host tries to prevent his wife from telling authorities that he assaulted her, a clergyman tries to get legal documents back from the man who robbed him, and a thief suffers a crisis of conscience when an elderly couple force him to reconsider his values. Taking a voyeuristic look beneath the veneer of ordinary tragedy, Mohsen Abdolvahab's Please Don't Disturb is a dramatic tour-de-force about our innate capacity for forgiveness. In this film Mohsen Abdolvahab collaborates with Baran Kosari, Hamed Behdad, Lili Farhadpour, Afshin Hashemi, Hedayat Hashemi, Mohsen Kazemi, Mohammad Ahmadi, Shirin Yazdanbakhsh, Yadollah Najafi, Sepideh Abdolvahab, Hadi Amel, Mehrdad Mirkiani, Fardin Khalatbari, Mazdak Mirabedini, Amir Esbati, Majid Forughi, Arash Sadeghi.
Mainline is about that Picking up from her highly successful 'Under the Skin of the City', the mother of Iranian cinema Rakshan Bani-Etemad returns to her artistic city Tehran to document the plight of its drug dependent population. Narrating the spiralling relationship between a mother and her addict daughter, we are presented with all faces of poverty and desperation, as the drugs put an emotional and financial strain on the family. Adopting hand-held camera work, Bani-Etemad continues her realist visual style in this gritty study of urban life. In this film Mohsen Abdolvahab collaborates with Bahram Radan, Baran Kosari, Bita Farahi, Masoud Rayegan, Mahmoud Kalari, Rakhshan Banietemad, Jahangir Kosari, Yadollah Najafi, Farid Mostafavi, Mohammad Reza Delpak, Sepideh Abdolvahab, Mehrdad Mirkiani, Naghmeh Samini, Zhila Mehrjui, Farid Valizadeh, Mitra Mahaseni.
Mohsen Abdolvahab has been a Editor in some movies:
Saffron is about that An Iranian saffron farmer chooses to continue with his plans of fertilizing his saffron crop, against all the odds. With the environmental risks and arid conditions, his treasured plants may wilt in the desert heat. Scenes of flowing water contrast with the apparently hostile and unforgiving land, as he optimistically battles through his trials. A charming but realistic portrait of the difficulties that come with the choice of an agricultural life in rural Iran. In this film Mohsen Abdolvahab collaborates with Ebrahim Mokhtari, Rassaneh Pouya, Reza Jalali.
Our Times is about that This docu-fiction focuses on the lives of several Iranian women throughout the presidential elections of 2001. Director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, one of Iran's most respected feminist filmmakers, explores two groups of women, one old and one young, to contrast divergent political attitudes across the generation gap. At one end of this spectrum is the director's daughter and a group of her friends, on the other end is a group of forty-eight older women running for office. Binding these two stories together is the tale of Arezoo Bayat and her daughter who are simply trying to make a living amid the headier issue of the elections. A compelling portrait of life as a Iranian woman at the turn of the 21st century. In this film Mohsen Abdolvahab collaborates with Reza Davoudnejad, Baran Kosari, Pegah Ahangarani, Rakhshan Banietemad, Pirooz Kalantari, Jahangir Kosari, Milad Sadrameli, Hossein Mahdavi, Mohammad Reza Delpak, Nava Rohani.
Gilaneh is about that The year is 1988 and Iraqi bombs are falling on Tehran in a bloody chapter of the Iran-Iraq war known as 'The War of the Cities'. In the middle of the conflict we find widow Gilaneh, who has assumed responsibility for her son and pregnant daughter after the death of her husband. When her son-in-law abandons his military post, Gilaneh must venture into the very heart of the capital to find him, and as she is confronted at every turn by the horror and hopelessness of war, she comes to dread that this will not be the first bloodshed she will witness in her lifetime. In this film Mohsen Abdolvahab collaborates with Bahram Radan, Baran Kosari, Fatemeh Motamed Aria, Nayereh Farahani, Shahrokh Foroutanian, Niloofar Khoshkholgh, Rakhshan Banietemad, Jaleh Sameti, Morteza Poursamadi, Saeed Saadi, Mohammad Reza Aligholi, Yadollah Najafi, Majid Bahrami, Davoud Yousefian, Farid Mostafavi, Mohammad Reza Delpak, Amir Hossein Ghasemii, Mehrdad Mirkiani, Mitra Mahaseni, Mohsen Seyedi.
Marriage of the Blessed is about that After Partial recovery from the impact of explosion waves, Haji a young combatant leaves hospital and advised by doctors to get married for perfect recuperation. His fiancée's father is a businessman who is planning to marry his daughter to a rich man. While resolving the problem of marriage, Haji gains a new understanding of social problems. He relapses during the wedding and is taken back to hospital. Going over recent events he comes to the conclusion that battle front is the only place for him, and leaves the hospital before complete recovery. In this film Mohsen Abdolvahab collaborates with Roya Nonahali, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Ebrahim Abadi, Mohsen Zehtab, Abdollah Eskandari, Alireza Zarrindast, Babak Bayat, Ahmad Ahmadpoor, Mahmoud Bigham, Hossein Moslemi, Iraj Saghiri, Esmat Makhmalbaf, Ameneh Kholdebarin, Karim Zargar, Hossein Hossein Khani, Bahram Jalali.
Friends at Work is about that In 1983, amidst the hardships of post-revolutionary and war-torn Iran, a group of engineering classmates established a steel foundry near the city of Sari, in the North of Iran. Their main goal was to gain income for themselves and at the same time eliminate the nation’s dependence on foreign steel. They dubbed themselves 'the Tabarestaners' after the name of the province where they first began their successful collaborations. Over the years they have worked together to overcome many obstacles which were mostly due to economic problems at the national level. They founded the Tabarestan Steel Foundry and have since established other factories around Iran. The Tabarestaners have maintained their circle of friends and relatives for years. Now that they have reached retirement age they are thinking about the future of their industries. The film starts with Mr. Gholamreza Rasoolian, CEO of Tabarestan Steel Complex, traveling to visit his factory. During the course of the film, we get to know the other Tabarestaners one by one and their roles in the development of their projects and their individual achievements. Moreover, the film depicts the Tabarestaners’ cordial relationships. Website: karafilm.ir In this film Mohsen Abdolvahab collaborates with Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Mohammad Haddadi, Yadollah Najafi, Mohammad Reza Jahanpanah, Amir Hossein Ghasemii, Reza Teymouri, Reza Mortazavi, Nezamoddin Kiaie, Ahmad Vafaei, Abbas Kowsari.
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MAHAK: A World She Founded, Being Born
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