Mehdi Azadi

Mehdi Azadi

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Saffron 1990

A Khorasani saffron grower struggles to fertilize the saffron plant with dehydration and the risk of losing the dull flowers of the saffron in order to obtain the flower stigma or saffron root.
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Taraz 1988

The documentary "Taraz" is about a group of nomads in Bakhtiari alley who live in two provinces of Khuzestan (tropical region) and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari (cold region) every year according to the hot and cold seasons. The group, which spends seven months of the year in an area north of Masjid Suleiman (Andika), migrates from this area to their summer territory on the southern slopes of Zardkuh in late April. As the weather cools in their cold territory and before rain and snow fall, they return to their winter territory in Khuzestan province in September. (A group of nomads about whom the film Taraz has been made is a few families from the "Bamdi" tribe of the "Haft Lang" Bakhtiari tribe.)
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Holy Wedding 1996

Every year in the middle of winter, the residents of the village of Oraman Takht in Kurdistan hold a ceremony in memory of a mystic man for two weeks. This film is a look at this ritual.
Mehdi Azadi

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Sunless Shadows 2022 (6)

In an Iranian juvenile detention center, a group of adolescent girls serve their sentence for the grave crime of murdering their father, their husband or another male family member.
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1001 Apples 2013 (9)

In 1988 the Iraqi Ba'ath party murdered and buried 182,000 Kurds in 350 mass graves. Only 10 people managed to escape. Faraj climbed out from amongst the dead and was taken to the USA by 'Human Rights Watch'. Realizing that few people were aware of the genocidal 'Anfal' massacres, Faraj formed the 'Iraqi Mass Graves Survivors' group. He returned to Kurdistan where, with four other survivors, he bought 1001 red apples and cloves and distributed them to families who had lost members. These apples and cloves became symbols of reconciliation and peace.
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Holy Bread 2022

A documentary on the precarious lives of the koolbari, who carry goods on foot across the mountainous borders from Iran's northwestern Kurdish region.