traumatized man

Iran, January 16th, 1979. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees after being overthrown. Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Tehran and proclaims the Islamic Republic on April 1st, 1979. In the same year, Saddam Hussein seizes power in Iraq and, after several border skirmishes, attacks Iran on September 22nd, 1980, initiating a cruel war that will last eight years. Since its outbreak, correspondent Saeid Sadeghi documented it from its beginning to its bitter end.

Albert and Devon retreat to a remote cabin to explore a connection sparked by a string of sexually charged messages on a dating app. Albert is a closeted husband struggling with the collapse of his heterosexual identity; Devon is a wounded soul who uses fleeting affairs with married men to shield himself from his past. As their bond deepens, reality begins to fracture. The forest won’t let them leave. The walls whisper with voices they’ve tried to forget. And the cabin itself seems alive, bending time and conjuring personal ghosts in physical form. Trapped in a metaphysical bubble, the men must confront the truths they’ve spent their lives avoiding... before the cabin consumes them both. Shadows of Willow Cabin blends queer romance with supernatural horror. A moody, intimate, and chilling film that unspools like a fever dream.

War and Peace of Mind explores what war does to the human mind and how both, the individuals and the nation as a whole, survive it psychologically. Finland and WWII, locally known as continuation war, is the backdrop of this documentary.

After twenty years, Wiam Al Zabari starts a conversation with his father. Why did they flee from Iraq? Why was that never discussed? Will he be able to let go of the past and embrace a Dutch future?

This short sequence (or film) is my submission for the imagistic/abstract shot breakdown exercise at Whistling Woods International (film school). As direction students, the objective was to do a shot breakdown and then present a sequence of shots to finally make something that can be distinctly expressed via film and no other art form in terms of its effect.

Marc Page, a physics teacher and amateur writer, is thrown into the memory of a traumatic incident from his childhood during his daily commute. He suddenly finds himself in the cramped yet infinite space of a tram car, grappling with all the possibilities of his very existence...

In the midst of a civil war, a soldier wakes up in a car, surrounded by fields that have become infertile. The vehicle's driver, who had returned from the front a few days earlier, shared his doubts about the conflict with him. This journey would be a way for the soldier to finally reflect on his actions and then briefly connect with a forgotten past. At the end of the road, he will find the horror of his mission.

A young man who never leaves his house tries to take control of his life. At the same time, a large sinkhole appears in the middle of the small-town he lives in.

Repressed trauma resurfaces, and Captain Callum realizes he has made a mistake that threatens his own universe and countless others. When poacher Nikolas tampers with a meteorite fragment, the balance between the universes is disrupted.