
Acting
Dec 25, 1942
Tabriz, Iran
Reza Naji
Acting
Biography
Reza Naji is an Iranian actor and an iconic figure of Iranian cinema. Naji started his career in theater when he was a teenager. While serving in the Iranian army, he continued to perform in different roles. His first role in a film goes back to 1997 in Children of Heaven, which proved to be a breakthrough. For playing the role of Ali's father, director Majid Majidi was seeking an actor with an Azeri accent, and Naji was carefully selected from a group of 2,500 actors tested for the role. Since then, he has played several roles in Iranian films. Among his most notable performances is his appearance in "The Song of Sparrows", directed by renowned film director Majid Majidi, for which Naji won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, and Best Performance by an Actor at the 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Reza Naji, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Feature Films (36)

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.
Children of Heaven

Sasan and Bahram are back to Iran and Alice is with them too. Babak's father and Sasan's mother come to airport to take them home but they don't know that they are married. Meanwhile Bahram takes the wrong suitcase which lead them to confront with a gang and enter them in new adventures.
Texas 2

Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?
The Willow Tree

On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.
Baran

When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.
The Song of Sparrows

Rafiq and his family are struggling to come to terms with the loss of his older brother Tauqir, a tourist photographer, who is one of the thousands of young men who have disappeared, since the onset of the militant insurgency in Kashmir. After an unsuccessful attempt to cross the border into Pakistan,to become a militant, Rafiq returns home to an aimless existence. Until one day when he accidentally finds his brother's old camera.
Autumn

You always have to think of a way to invade the Apaches. Unless you know what lies ahead...
Apache

In a small provincial Iranian town, the children work hard to support their families. One day nine-year-old Yahya and his friend Leyla find a precious statue. Sharing a passion for cinema, Yahya's boss Naser Khan decides to help them find the owner.
Winners

Arjang, who was born before the revolution in Iran, has been in love with his childhood sweetheart, Roya, for the past 40 years. Roya, however, has brought him nothing but trouble. Now 50, and having experienced a revolution, a war, a divorce and both poverty and wealth, Arjang finds himself still in love with Roya.
Sperm Whale

The story of this film is a loose adaptation of a novel of the same name written by Ruhollah Rashidi and narrates the attachments of a building painter who loves cinema, who has succeeded in producing several short films and dreams of making his first feature film.
Projectionist

Nasi spends months after release from prison, watching the films and memorizes all the lines. He then travels around to perform the films as a one man show on a bench. Gradually he forms a theatre group called Cinema Bench...
Bench Cinema

Tensions abound in the relationships featured in the three episodes which make up the film - that between two young children and their stepfather, a cripple setting off alone on a pilgrimage without the company of his fellow villagers, and a teacher returning to his remote village and finding himself the subject of unrealistic expectations of the other villagers.
Birth of a Butterfly
Television & Series (5)

Qudrat and Jahangir, famous falsifiers wanted by the police, intend to flee the country, but the two find themselves in adventures where they can start a new business with Ramali. Although the police have identified them, but they do not give up witchcraft due to greed, and by fraud, they can get property that ...
The Sorcerer

The story of Occasion, which takes place in the 70s, is the story of Rahim, who plans to go to Canada to continue his education, but he finds out that he is banned from leaving and this incident is under the control of Mohsen's uncle, so he must look for a solution...
Occasion

Divar Be Divar (2017) Divar be Divar is a Iranian comedy show made in the Persian year 1396, or the year 2017. The show contains 2 seasons with 48 episodes in season 1, and 17 episodes in season 2. This show is about 4 families who have lost their money due to buying apartments. While having no place to stay, they all move to one big house, but things became crazier then expected.
Next Door Neighbor

Morteza When he loses his father, he's forced to leave school and work in the fields. He falls in love with Golrokh, After getting married, Golrokh insists that Morteza finish school and sign up for college.
Forgotten

Two young couples named "Sadaf" and "Chavosh", who have married after many problems, decide to travel to the island of Kish for their honeymoon. In the meantime, due to arriving late at the airport, they miss the plane and at "Sadaf"'s suggestion, the two decide to take the train to Kish; but at the train station, they pick up "Chavosh" and in the meantime, a wanted person encounters them and...
