Reza Dormishian

• Name — رضا درمیشیان Reza Dormishian • Born — 6 November 1981 • Birthplace — Tehran, Iran • Occupation — Writer Screenwriter Documentarian director Producer • Years Active — 1996present

He started writing as a film critic in 1997 for several newspapers. He later worked as an executive editor for cinema books and magazines. He was an assistant to some prestigious Iranian filmmakers, including Dariush Mehrjui and Alireza Davood Nejad. He has also worked as a screenwriter. He started making short films and documentaries in 2002. Hatred was his first feature film, produced independently in Istanbul. Hatred displays the frenzied love and hatred and two accounts from two phases in the life of an Iranian refugee couple in Istanbul, Turkey. The film was received well by critics and cinema writers and the Iranian critics gave it three awards (Best Directing, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing). Although Hatred was censored to be screened in Iran, it was screened and praised in various festivals such as the Competition Section of the 36th Montreal World Film Festival in Canada, Competition Section of the 28th Warsaw Film Festival in Poland, and Competition Section of the Camerimage Film Festival in Poland. His second feature, I'm not angry!, was the most controversial film of the Iranian cinema in 2014. This social drama criticizes the Ahmadinejad era, and it was the only Iranian film present in the Panorama Section of 64th Berlin International Film Festival. I'm not angry! was screened in the 32nd Fajr Film Festival while 15 minutes of it had been censored, and it was faced with warm welcome by the audience and grave opposition by extremist groups, to the extent that the cinema authorities stopped its screening. As the hardliners and extremists were going to attack the closing ceremony of the festival with 15 buses of their men, the festival authorities forced Reza Dormishian not to receive his awards and to withdraw his film from the festival, and they announced in the closing ceremony that Reza Dormishian had waived his awards to maintain calmness in the Iranian cinema. The jury members, however, revealed the next day that the awards had indeed belonged to I'm not angry! and that Dormishian had agreed to resignation under pressure. Screening of I'm not angry! in Iran has been banned since then. On 3 February 2026, Dormishian was among several figures in the Iranian film industry who signed a statement supporting the 2025–2026 Iranian protests and condemning the government's response to them.

• Year — English title — Original title — Director — Screenwriter — Producer — Directing Advisor — First Assistant Director — Assistant Director — Line Producer — Year of Released — Note • 2019 — LA minor — LA-minor — YES • 2018 — No Choice — Majbourim — YES — YES — YES — 2020 — Tokyo International Film Festival, “No Choice” by Reza Dormishian is an entry to the Tokyo Premiere section. • 2017 — White Chairs — Yavashaki — YES — 2017 — Premiered at the 41st International São Paulo Film Festival • 2016 — Lantouri — Lantouri — YES — YES — YES • 2014 — I'm not Angry! — Asabani Nistam! — YES — YES — YES • 2013 — Good to Be Back — Che Khoobe Ke Bargashti — YES • 2012 — Hatred — Boqz — YES — YES • 2012 — I Am a Mother — Man Mathar Hastam — YES — YES • 2012 — Orange Suit — Narenji Poosh — YES • 2010 — Fairy Tale — Gheseye Pariya — YES • 2010 — Pamenar — Pamenar — YES — YES — YES — Short Film • 2010 — Tehran, Tehran — Tehran, Tehran — YES • 2007 — Magician — Jadougar — YES — YES — YES — Documentary • 2007 — Parkway — Parkway — YES • 2007 — The Music Man — Santouri — YES • 2006 — Being a Star — Setareh Misahavad — YES • 2006 — Persian Carpet — Farsh-e Irani — YES — Documentary, the segment: 'The Carpet and the Angel'. • 2005 — Salad-e Fasl — Salad-e Fasl — YES • 2004 — Stars 3: Was a Star — Setareh Bood — YES • 2003 — Meeting the Parrot — Molaghat ba Tooti — YES