Niyaz Saghari

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Niyaz Saghari (Iran/UK) is an Iranian born, UK based filmmaker. Graduating from Film Directing from Art University of Tehran, she continued her studies on the MA Animation at Newport. She has been directing documentaries and making experimental films. Her work focuses on urban life in her home towns of Tehran and Bristol. She is a member of Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (BEEF), a collective focused on analogue vision and sound.

Most Popular Niyaz Saghari Trailers

Total trailers found: 11

Filmfarsi Trailer (2019)

26 July 2019

A found-footage essay, Filmfarsi salvages low budget thrillers and melodramas suppressed following the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Ripple Effect Trailer (2024)

31 August 2024

The diver plunges into the sea (death), but also into life (eternity), where he will rediscover the primordial waters of life.

The Charcoal Alley Trailer (1998)

05 August 1998

Behind the hostel and bustle of shopping malls in Tajrish, a bazaar in north of Tehran, where the old meets the new, there is an old street where time seems to have stopped.

Ghazal no 884 By Bidel Trailer (2020)

25 September 2020

This films follows the emotionally intense experience of Saghari staying in her mother’s room, sleeping on her death bed, and trying to experience her point of view by going through her mundane objects.

The Missing Commas I & II Trailer (2021)

01 September 2021

Shot during the lock down in the spring of 2020, Missing Commas combines images of our daily family life confined to the small garden and the empty train station with the sounds from 50’s Sci-Fi film and songs from old nursery rhymes that resonate other pandemics in human history.

VHS Diaries Trailer (2021)

21 July 2021

The filmmaker revisits the diaries she kept during the years when video was banned in Iran. Using her personal VHS archive of films as a point of reference, the film explores a very personal film history with audio interviews with film historians, film buffs and those involved in the film black market.

Celluloid Underground Trailer (2023)

05 October 2023

After the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, a boy grew up obsessed with all the movies he couldn't see.

The Stairs, The Suitcases and The Grand Hall of Books Trailer (2019)

17 August 2019

The poet Ali Sarandibi takes us to an experimental journey in to his work place in The Grand Hall of Books in Enghelab street in Tehran,best known for its bookshops and Tehran University.

Entangled as Species Trailer (2022)

13 November 2022

Daily observations and reflections of the second year of living in a pandemic. Our lives are limited to visits to the local Windmill Hill City Farm where animals and humans seem to live in harmony.

+X+=+ Trailer (2021)

28 April 2021

Even in the last week of her life, my mother believed in the power of positive thinking. She told her nurse ‘+ x+=+’.

The Walnut of Knowledge Trailer (2025)

01 December 2025

Under the shadow of a walnut tree, a boy explores the histories and cultures of his mother’s land.g