Nezam Manouchehri

Director/ Producer/Writer - Nezam Manoucheri is a filmmaker, writer, and an actor. His film “Letters from Iran” 2005, a 30 minute docu-drama, which he wrote, produced and directed premiered in Barcelona last year, with a magnificent review in the Spanish daily, El Pais. He has also played the lead in two recent Iranian films, “Khamooshi” (Blackout) and “Mosafere Shab” (Night Traveler.)

He served as a production manager on a historical documentary of Atlantic Productions of the UK, shot on location in Perspolis. He was also location manager and guide in ;In Search of Eden” a documentary production for Discovery Channel written by David Rohl and directed by Peter Minns. He appeared and assisted in the production of Selim Nassib’s film for Arte Television Paris “Le tapis d’Assia.” In 1987 he switched residence to Tehran and since then has split his time between there and San Francisco.

He is currently working on the post-production of “Letters from America” the follow up to his film “Letters from Iran.”

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Letters from Iran

Letters from Iran is a moving account of an exile’s return to his homeland. Through a series of letters written to a friend in America, he describes his homecoming and the ambivalent emotions it evokes in him. His joyous reunion with his family is coupled with feelings of deep sadness and longing for a vanished past.

More than two decades after the revolution, Iran is still a mystery to outsiders, including many expatriate Iranians. Letters from Iran provides a glimpse at the everyday life in present-day Tehran and uncovers the political and cultural changes taking place.