Niaz Salimi
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Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Maman
When a disgruntled Iranian-Canadian mama's boy and his dead-beat mom embark on a heist to alleviate family debts, tensions boil over between them mid-robbery.
Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • as Layla
Sisters Farrah, Miriam, and Layla bond over chai and hair removal, dragging daughters Rina and Nora into witchy rituals that unravel trauma, family baggage, and body hair.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Zahra Moridi
In Toronto lively music, intricate textiles and vibrant colours paint an unlikely story of love and family when Badi and Sharon, two young students with very different upbringings from a divided Persian community, accidentally fall in love.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Maman Joon
Unibrow follows Leyla, a second-generation Irani-Canadian girl striving for the perfect brows, as she befriends a new student from Iran, Sahar, who introduces her to the cultural significance of eyebrows.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Maman
During 1979 at the height of the Iran Hostage crisis, Babak goes on a trip to meet his fiancé’s parents and ends up confronting the realities of what it means to be an Iranian immigrant in a patriotic post-Vietnam America.