Houman Seyyedi facts for kids
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Houman Seyyedi
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| هومن سيدی | |
Seyyedi in 2016
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| Born | November 29, 1980 Rasht, Iran
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| Nationality | Iranian |
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| Years active | 2004—present |
| Spouse(s) |
Azadeh Samadi
(m. 2007; div. 2014)Bita Aslani
(m. 2017) |
| Children | 1 |
Houman Seyyedi (Persian: هومن سيدی, born November 29, 1980) is an Iranian actor, director, screenwriter and editor. He has received various accolades, including six Crystal Simorghs–making him the only director to have three wins in Special Jury Prize category–two Hafez Awards, five Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Awards, a NETPAC Award and an Asian New Talent Award. His sixth film, World War III (2022) won the Orizzonti Award for Best Film at the 79th Venice International Film Festival.
Career
Houman Seyyedi is an Iranian theater, television and cinema actor & director, known for his role in " The Endless Way " series.
His directing of short movies, including ’35 Meters Below Sea Level’ and ‘Blue Tooth’, earned him several awards at Tehran International Short Film Festival. He also directed his first long movie ‘Africa’ in 2010.
Seyyedi, who was the writer as well as editor of ‘Africa’, managed to receive an award for Best Movie in video works section of the 29 Fajr International Film Festival.
He has participated in several movies, including ‘Fireworks Wednesday’ (2005), ‘Barefoot in Heaven’ (2005), ‘He Who Goes to Sea’ (2006), ‘The Wound on Eve’s Shoulder’ (2007), ‘The Freeway’ (2010), ‘Thirteen’ (2012), ‘The Exclusive Line’ (2013), ‘Confessions of My Dangerous Mind’ (2014), ‘Buffalo’ (2014), ‘I am Diego Maradona’ (2014), ‘Sleep Bridge’ (2015) and ‘Profiles’ (2015).
Filmography
Film
| Year | Film | Actor | Screenwriter | Editor | Director |
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| 2005 | A Piece of Bread | Yes | No | Kamal Tabrizi | |
| 2006 | Fireworks Wednesday | Asghar Farhadi | |||
| Barefoot in heaven | Bahram Tavakoli | ||||
| 2006 | He who goes to sea | Arash Moayerian | |||
| 2007 | The wound on Eve’s shoulder | Hossein Ghena'at | |||
| 2008 | An ounce of the sky | Ali Vazirian | |||
| 2010 | The freeway | Abbas Rafe'ee | |||
| Africa | Houman Seyyedi | ||||
| 2012 | Thirteen | Houman Seyyedi | |||
| 2013 | Outside of night | Kaveh Sajjadi Hosseini | |||
| The exclusive line | Mostafa Kiaee | ||||
| 2014 | Half-faces | Iraj Karimi | |||
| I Am Diego Maradona | Bahram Tavakoli | ||||
| Confessions of my dangerous mind | Houman Seyyedi | ||||
| In the period known | Vahid Amirkhani | ||||
| Buffalo | Kaveh Sajjadi Hosseini | ||||
| 2015 | Sleep bridge | Oktay Barahnai | |||
| Nobody dies here | Hossein Kandari | ||||
| Motherhood | Roghayeh Tavakoli | ||||
| Sound and Fury | Houman Seyyedi | ||||
| 2017 | Human Comedy | Yes | No | No | Mohammad Hadi Karimi |
| Azar | Yes | No | No | Mohammad Hamzeiy | |
| 2018 | Confiscation | Yes | No | No | Mehran Ahmadi |
| Sheeple | No | Yes | Yes | Houman Seyyedi | |
| 2019 | Tala | Yes | No | No | Parviz Shahbazi |
| 2022 | World War III | No | Yes | Yes | Houman Seyyedi |
Web
| Year | Title | Role | Actor | Director | Screenwriter | Editor | Platform | Ref. |
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| 2016 | The Romance | Peyman Rastag | Yes | No | No | No | Video CD | |
| 2018 | Golshifteh | Houman | Yes | No | No | No | ||
| 2020–2021 | The Frog | Amirali Shamsabadi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Namava | |
| 2021 | Gisoo | Peyman Rastag | Yes | No | No | No |
Television series
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Network | Ref. |
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| 2007 | Endless Path | Mansour Pourvatan | Homayoun Assadian | IRIB TV3 | |
| 2009–2010 | In the Eye of the Wind | Masoud Djafari Djozani | IRIB TV1 | ||
| 2010 | The 30th Day | Siavash Kiani | Javad Afshar | IRIB TV1 | |
| 2011 | Up to The Sky | Hamid | Sirous Moghaddam | IRIB TV1 | |
| 2013 | Mehr Abad | Farid Sajadi Hosseini | IRIB TV5 |
Television Film
| Title | Director |
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| Sayab | Mohammad Ali Sajadi |
| The Deserted Road | Ali Shah Hatami |
| At the Beginning of a Day | Bahram Tavakoli |
| If It Rains | Rouhollah Hejazi |
| The Plagiarize | Reza Beheshti |
| The Shadow | Rouhollah Hejazi |
| One Moment Later (episode "The Biliard") | Reza Beheshti |
| The story of Davoud and the Lunar | Ida Panahandeh |
| The Story of Us, Your Story | Reza Beheshti |
| The Winter Semester | Reza Beheshti |
| The Runner | Asgher Hashemi |
See also
In Spanish: Houman Seyyedi para niños
