A welder discovers his wife has disappeared. He sets out to look for her.
A railway crossing guard and his wife live in a routine of total isolation and uneventfulness.
A young orphan named Amiro lives alone in an abandoned tanker in the Iranian port city of Abadan. He survives by shining shoes, selling water, and collecting deposit bottles. Although he sometimes finds himself at odds with both adults and competing older kids, he finds solace in dreams about departing cargo ships and airplanes—and by running.
Ambrosia is the story of an Iranian-Canadian couple, Ali and Leila, who dream of an exciting future in Vancouver: Ali owns a pizza shop and thinks of expanding and Leila is an up-and-coming clothing designer. However, their situations change dramatically when Ali's shop is affected by bad economy and Leila is hired to work at a fashion design firm.
Ebrahim leaves his family and tries out his luck in Teheran. But in this urban jungle where everything's for sale and anything can be bought, dreams rapidly become nightmares. Caught up, in spite of himself, in a trafficking ring, will Ebrahim find an opportunity of escaping?
Broth Soup (Persian: آش نذری) is a 2000 Iranian film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi .
Ghost (Persian: شبح) is a 1998 Iranian drama film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)
Bright Shadow (Persian: سايه روشن) is a 1997 Iranian drama film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)
Tunnel 18 (Persian: تونل 18) is a 1997 Iranian Historical drama film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)
The Traces of Light (Persian: رد پاي نور) is a 1996 Iranian drama film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)
Hundred to one hundred (Persian: صدبرابرصد) is a 1995 Iranian film written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)
Elevator (Persian: آسانسور) is a 1995 social drama Iranian film, written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.
Maryam (Negar Javaherian) and Reza (Shahab Hosseini) are different from other people, it's not just a simple difference, but a very big difference. They must try to prove to others they have solved the big difference with the miracle of love ...
Amir, a young Iranian, signs on with a fisherman on the rugged Caspian Sea coast in order to earn the money he needs to marry his sweetheart, Narges. But in so doing, he becomes entangled in the criminal machinations of caviar poaching. Piece by piece, a complex hierarchy is revealed in a parallel realm that becomes ever more constricting and oppressive, endangering Amir’s relationship with Narges as well.
On Jan. 22, 1965, the day before the Iranian prime minister is assassinated, a car drives up to a shipwreck. Inside the wreck, a banished political prisoner has hung himself and the walls are covered in diary entries, literary quotes, and strange symbols. Fifty years later, the evidence, including intelligence tape recordings, is found in a box. The contents attest to the fact that the inspector and his colleagues were arrested, but why?
An experimental short film that evokes moments in the life of a man recreated through the magic of memory. Made from documents from various sources, this film is composed of several scenes: the stages of the day and of life between joy and carefree youth, the cruelty of the working world, the horror of war. The final result is put into perspective with the birth of a child, perpetuating the cycle of life.
A lonesome man at the threshold of death finds himself trapped in a place called the Endless.
The Last Word (Persian: حرف آخر) is a 2009 social drama Iranian film Written And Directed By Hossein Shahabi. This is a film about Iranian champion athletes.