Shoes

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1942-12-26

Place of Birth

Tabriz, Iran

Reza Naji

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.​

Known for

Projectionist

Projectionist

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.

Children of Heaven

Children of Heaven

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.

Next Door Neighbor

Next Door Neighbor

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.

Sperm Whale 3

Sperm Whale 3

Middle-aged influencer Arjang Senobar becomes widely known for his romance with Roya—a story that once captivated many. A team of filmmakers decide to create a movie based on his life.

The Willow Tree

The Willow Tree

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?

Wave and Rock

Wave and Rock

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...

Forgotten

Forgotten

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.

After the Incident

After the Incident

A sudden, life-altering tragedy shatters young Ruhollah's world, thrusting him into a harsh new reality where he must confront not only the profound grief of losing his father but also the daunting responsibility of providing for his struggling mother. Forced to mature far beyond his years, Ruhollah finds himself precariously balancing the demands of his education with the crushing weight of adult responsibilities.

Baran

Baran

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.

The Sorcerer

The Sorcerer

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 ...

Parvaze Morghabiha

Parvaze Morghabiha

Rahman who is a forest ranger gives his son Ali an injured duck to take care of it and treat it. Little by little an emotional relationship between the boy and the duck formed which leads to some adventures for them.

The Maiden Tower

The Maiden Tower

Two young people who love each other but cannot be reunited - Tuncay and Aytekin - have an endless love for each other. The reason for their separation is that Aytekin is the daughter of a king, and Tuncay is a simple engraver. Another issue is that Tuncay takes a shaman as his apprentice. As a result of a miracle, Tuncay arrives a thousand years later - in modern Baku and manages to find both the girl he loves and her father. But what has changed in Baku during these thousand years? Will our hero be able to reunite with the woman he loves in conditions that are completely alien to him, in the vortex of time?

The Ride

The Ride

A young man, with unknown troubles and philosophy of life, hits the streets of Tehran to clear his mind. Soon he finds himself in the role of a taxi driver. As he drives through the city, each person he picks up brings his story, stories that he tries to make sense of in order to understand and make sense of his own life.

Occasion

Occasion

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...

Kandaloos Gardens

Kandaloos Gardens

Kaveh ( Mohammad Reza Foroutan ) and Aban ( Khazar Masoumi ), a young couple who fell in love with the heroes of our story, are foreshadowed by Bijan, Ali and Said looking for them for gardens such as Paradise of Idaho, and in this mysterious journey, we lay in layers Inside love.