Name Mehdi Shabani | Role Director | |
Movies The Bathhouse That Wanted To Keep On Being A Bathhouse | ||
حمامی که میخواست حمام بماند
Mehdi Shabani (born 1975 in Tehran, Iran) has worked in several professions, as a director, writer, taxi driver, bookseller, cook and company executive.
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His directorial credits include, Shesh-Besh: How I learned to stop worrying and play backgammon (Turkey, 2013), a feature documentary about backgammon aired on VOA (Voice of America); The Bathhouse that wanted to keep on being a bathhouse (Iran, 2009–2010), aired on BBC and Emigration: An Unfinished Life (Iran, Turkey, 2011–2013). He has published a collection of poems, prepared and presented radio programs in several Persian-language radios as well as a series of articles about the arts, history and politics in Iranian and Persian newspapers.
His last movie, "Meyhane, A Home For My Grandfather" has been officially selected in some festivals included 15.Ankara International Film Festival and 8.Istanbul Documentarist Film Festival.
Filmography
• The Revenge (2002 Iran)
• Street-Style Politics (2003 Iran)
• Such as It Was, Nevertheless a Fine Life:that of Contemporary Iranian Poet Shams Langroodi (2008 Iran)
• Feature-length documentary “Emigration: An unfinished life“ (2011–2013 Iran/Turkey)
• The Bathhouse that wanted to keep on being a bathhouse (2011 Iran)
• Shesh-Besh: How I learned to stop worrying and play backgammon (2013 Turkey)
• Meyhane, A Home for My Grandfather (2014 Turkey)
• SAKALLOGIA (2016 Turkey)