Hadi Afarideh

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  • Norooz, Tehran's Time

    نوروز به وقت تهران
    Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2015 • Iran
    "Nowruz, Tehran's Time" is about Nowruz rituals in Tehran. While touring and watching the Nowruz rituals in Tehran, the film takes a look at the background of this ceremony in Tehran through conversations with Professor Abdullah Anvar, Ja...

  • Aqueduct, The Story of Water

    کاریز
    Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2021 • Iran
    Aqueducts or Kariz were invented and developed by Iranians in the dry regions of Persia in the first millennium BC.
    This technology was an underground channel that carried fresh water several kilometres from mountain slopes to plains so that farmers ...

  • Baluchi Garden

    باغ بلوچی
    Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2021 • Iran
    Sistan and Baluchestan Province is located in the southeast of Iran in an arid desert climate.
    Due to the drought, most of the villagers were forced to immigrate to other towns.
    This documentary shows two lifestyles in the desert region. One group...

  • Face Reading

    صورت خوانی
    Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2012 • Iran
    Curtain Reading (Pardeh khani) is a type of Iranian traditional religious stage play rooted in Iranian story-teller culture & painting. Its history goes back to Iran's pre-Islam era. This art form is now dying with very few Curtain Readers around...

  • The Story of Gordafarid

    نقل گردآفرید
    Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2008 • Iran
    Naqali (Musical Narration) is an Iranian traditional solo theatre in which only men are allowed to perform. As a matter of fact, it's been forbidden for women to appear in a Naqali performance. The place for this theatre has usually been teahou...

  • Plane Grove

    چنارستان
    Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2014 • Iran
    The 17km Vali Asr street with 60,000 plane trees connects the south of Tehran to the North. Afarideh's film portrays past hundred years of modern Tehran by looking at the longest street in the Middle East as a manifestation and remembrance of socia...

  • The Greetings Line

    صف سلام
    Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2020 • Iran
    The story of the discovery and restoration of a large wall painting that dates back to the reign of Fath Ali Shah Qajar introduces us to a part of the culture, social and political history of the Qajar rule in Iran.

  • The Nowrooz Maqam

    مقام نوروز
    Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2011 • Iran
    The Maqaami music, aka Maqaam, is a form of traditional music found in the Middle East & Central Asia.
    In 2003, The United Nations declared the Maqaami Music a vocal masterpiece & a spiritual heritage of humanity.
    In this documentary, we’ll get t...

  • Water Lorry

    کامیون آبی
    Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2021 • Iran
    This documentary is narrated by the driver of a lorry that carries water to the villages, and it deals with the story of Baluchestan people and the Iranian crocodile, and the competition and dangers on the way to find water in Baluchestan.

  • Iranian Pets Club

    باشگاه حیوانات
    Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2018 • Iran
    In the last decade, keeping special pets such as snakes, tarantulas, alligators, monkeys, and even scorpions has become very common in Iranian houses.
    Unlike domestic pets such as dogs, these animals do not need to go outside the house and th...

  • The Memory of Niavaran

    خاطره نی‌آوران
    Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2009 • Iran
    This documentary is going to review –after 30 years- the events leading to the overtaking of the Shah’s most important palace, Niavaran.

  • The Afar

    آفر
    Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2015 • Iran
    "The Afar", while introducing the ancient and local dances of Torbat Jam and Torbatt Heydarieh, introduces the influential figure of Farooq Kiyani in preserving the local dances of the region, including the dance of Afar, which was a ritual of Nowruz in...