Azita Damandan
Drama
Echoes
short film, 2023
Post-Production
Hannah is working hard to finish her thesis project which is a feature script, portraying a Persian writer and activist’s biography, Houshang Golshiri through bits and pieces of his stories. Through these excerpts, parts of political history of contemporary Iran ‘s been reviewed. In spite of Hannah’s supervisor’s insisting on Hannah just focusing on her project, she can’t help getting involved with the new revolution in Iran and including the significant events happening there in her thesis.
Way Out
8 min, 2021
A protest is being suppressed. A fleeing protestor encounters a government soldier who can kill her or let her go. Things get complicated when another soldier comes into the picture. Perhaps there’s more than one choice to make.
Mourners
70 min, 2023
A protest is being suppressed. A fleeing protestor encounters a government soldier who can kill her or let her go. Things get complicated when another soldier comes into the picture. Perhaps there’s more than one choice to make.
Unseen
23 min, 2020
Mentally and emotionally sick and traumatised from drastic events in her past, Tara desperately is in search of any kind of connection with others.
Awards; Delhi Short International Film Festival, Searchlight Short Film Festival, Accolade Competition
Mourners
17 min, 2021
Inspired by two powerful short stories by Houshang Golshiri, Silence explores the cost of freedom under oppressive regimes.
Awards; Delhi Short International Film Festival, Searchlight Short Film Festival, Accolade Competition
Untold
29 min, 2017
Iranian immigrant Ava feels spiritually lost and is struggling with her sexual identity. When she becomes a carer for Roxy – religious, lonely, and facing a life-threatening illness – things begin to shift.
Selection: Short Film Corner, Cannes Film festival; Colortape International Film Festival , Brisbane, Australia
Silence
30 min, 2013
Inspired by two powerful short stories by Houshang Golshiri, Silence explores the cost of freedom under oppressive regimes.
Awards; Delhi Short International Film Festival, Searchlight Short Film Festival, Accolade Competition.
Lullaby
2009
Trapped in a lift, a young nurse is hit by claustrophobia while her only hope is the non-English speaking patient with her.
The 3rd prize for the best director. The Inaugural Nurses Short Film Festival” Sydney, Australia
A Woman, A Man, A Kid
2006
The family’s gone for the day. Dad has the place to himself … then he collapses and is unable to move or make a sound. Now that he can only listen he starts to discover what his life truly is.
The honorary Diploma for the best director of fiction movies “The first Festival of female Directors” IRAN
Neighbour
2000
An Afghani refugee enjoys his life and work in Iran in 1998. But the World Cup is on and Iran is playing USA – but he has no idea how he’s going to catch the match.
Selection of the “Kabul/Tehran 1979ff, “Filmlandschaften, Stadte unter stress und migration”
Part of the Truth
1991
An old man lives an everyday ordinary life. Even the local petty thief comes and goes on time every morning. But one day things change for him… and the world around him.
The Best director Award, “the first regional film festival of Isfahan”, IRAN