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Director Biography

Nasser Saffarian was born in Tehran on July 9, 1975. He is a graduate of English Literature .

He Started writing on cinema on 1991 and has collaborated with a number of Film periodicals and newspapers like:
Film monthly, Salam, Adineh, Iran, Cinema jahan, Mehr, Cinema-ye no, Donya-ye tasvir, Gozaresh-e Film, Zanan, Nowrooz, Vaghayeh Etefaghieh, Hamshahri, Film international, Akhbar, Yas-e now, Afarinesh, Cinema Varzesh, Sedaye Edalat &... .
Books :

The Chants of Sigh (Ayeha-ye Ah) - 2003 Deals with the Life and Works of the Legendary Iranian poet, Forough Farrokhzad.

Films :

Forough Farrokhzad`s Trilogy (The mirror of the soul, Summit of the wave, The Green Cold) - 2000/2004
The House is Dark: The Original Version - 2003
The Song of Sunshine - 2003
Auto-Stop - 2004
A Good Time for Tragedy - 2003/2005

A Good Time for Tragedy - وقت خوب مصائب

َAdditional Music by Fariborz Lachini

Synopsis: A documentary about the life and works of Ahmad-Reza Ahmadi, an Iranian poet.

Director , Screenwriter , Researcher & Executive Producer : Nasser Saffarian

Producers: Documentary and Experimental Film Center & Nasser Saffarian

Genre: Documentary

Editor : Bahman Kiarostami

Image : Mohammad-Reza Sokoot

Still Photographer: Hasan Ghaffari & Mehrshad karkhani

Sound : Mehrdad Dadgari

Interview Group : Reza kianian , Ahmad Talebi-Nezhad , Mohammad Ghaed, Mahoor Ahmadi , Hamid-Reza Sadr & Nasser Saffarian With : Aydin Aghdashloo , Mahoor Ahmadi , Farah Osooli, Ezzat-Ollah Entezami , Majid Entezami , Rakhshan Bani-Etemad , Shohreh Heydari , Khosro Khorshidi , Davood Rashidi , Omran Salahi , Zhaleh Olow , Ezzat-Ollah Foolad-Vand , Houshang Kamkar , Abbas Kiarostami , Masoud Kimiai & Masoud Masoomi

Production year: Iran - DVCAM - 57 minutes - 2003/2005

Official Site: @ Nasser Saffarian website

Fariborz Lachini and Ahmad-Reza Ahmadi had also released a CD of "Sohrab Sepehri's" Poems with Ahmad-Reza Ahmadi's voice called Abyat-e Tanhayee back in early 90s.