PAPER FATHERS
Screenplay · Registered
Fatherhood, absence, and an inherited lie.
IRANIAN HOUSE OF CINEMA
FILMMAKER · WRITER
Stories where memory,
silence, and moral consequence meet.
01 / SELECTED SCREENPLAYS
A selected group of screenplays registered with the Iranian House of Cinema. Stories shaped through character, visual rhythm, and what remains unsaid.
Screenplay · Registered
Fatherhood, absence, and an inherited lie.
IRANIAN HOUSE OF CINEMA
Screenplay · Registered
Containment, longing, and distorted intimacy.
IRANIAN HOUSE OF CINEMA
Screenplay · Registered
An island retreat and the limits of return.
IRANIAN HOUSE OF CINEMA
Screenplay · Registered
A private belief begins to reshape reality.
IRANIAN HOUSE OF CINEMA
Screenplay · Registered
Separation, memory, and a voice left behind.
IRANIAN HOUSE OF CINEMA
Screenplay · Registered
Two fathers, one absence, and a decision.
IRANIAN HOUSE OF CINEMA
Screenplay · Registered
A coastline, a fracture, and a return.
IRANIAN HOUSE OF CINEMA
Screenplay · Registered
Care, endurance, and an irreversible choice.
IRANIAN HOUSE OF CINEMA
“The image should reveal what dialogue cannot.”
02 / ABOUT
Fereshte Rahim is a filmmaker and screenwriter working in narrative cinema. The work is drawn to memory, identity, family fracture, and the moral instability beneath ordinary life.
Each project begins with a question rather than an answer: what does a person protect when the truth costs too much?
03 / SELECTED TRAINING
Long-form study in screenwriting and directing, complemented by film analysis, editing, and independent masterclasses.
01
Directing with Shahram Mokri (Karnameh) and Reza Mirkarimi (Ghermez); filmmaking workshops with Arman Khansarian (Bamdad) and Mehdi Asghari Aghzadi (Clap).
Also: Contemporary Film Analysis with Shahram Mokri02
Advanced screenwriting studies with Saeed Aghighi (five semesters, Maktab-e Shahid Saless), Mehran Kashani (Hilaj), and Mehdi Asghari Aghzadi (Clap).
Also: Dialogue Writing · Film Theory03
Film viewing and analysis with Saeed Aghighi at Maktab-e Shahid Saless; film analysis with Shahram Mokri at Karnameh; editing with Elnaz Abdolmohammadi at Clap.
How to Watch Films · Film Analysis · Analysis of Ten Contemporary Films · Editing04
Online masterclasses in filmmaking and writing by Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Aaron Sorkin, and David Mamet.
Continuing independent study04 / PRACTICE
Interested in collaborations, development, and festival conversations around independent narrative film.