Stories by @sepanta_kazemi

All Men Are Mortal

When rising stage actress Regina meets a quiet, enigmatic man named Raymond Fosca, she is drawn to the strange intensity behind his eyes. But Fosca carries a secret that defies all reason—he is immortal, condemned to walk the world for centuries, unable to die. Obsessed with understanding him, Regina pushes Fosca to reveal the truth of his past. What begins as curiosity turns into a sweeping journey across time, as Fosca recounts lifetimes of triumph and loss: the rise and fall of kingdoms, revolutions, betrayals, and the deep loneliness that has followed him through every century. While Regina imagines immortality as the ultimate safeguard for her fame and legacy, Fosca’s memories expose a harsher truth—eternal life strips the world of meaning, leaving every love and every ambition to eventually fade into emptiness. As their relationship blurs the line between passion and desperation, Regina becomes captivated by the very condition that has destroyed Fosca’s ability to feel connected to anything. And in the clash between her hunger for significance and his exhaustion from endless existence, the film asks a haunting question: What does it mean to live forever… when nothing around you does? A psychological drama that moves between modern life and centuries of lived history, All Men Are Mortal explores desire, fear, and the fragile human need for purpose—revealing that immortality may be the greatest curse of all.

Night One, Night Two

After the collapse of a love he cannot escape, Zavosh Izadan, a writer drifting between bitterness and longing, sits alone with the only pieces of his past that still breathe—the letters of Bibi. Bibi, born into privilege and raised in Europe, has always lived at the edge of rebellion. Trained in fashion and makeup design, she becomes infamous for a daring line of clothing created for workers, titled “Night One, Night Two.” Her return to Iran brings her into the bohemian circles of artists and intellectuals, where she meets Zavosh. Their connection is immediate, turbulent, and intoxicating—two restless souls clinging to each other in a world that refuses to hold them still. But Bibi is a woman in motion. She leaves Iran once more, drifting to Zurich, where she marries and tries to build a stable life. Yet her marriage cannot quiet the ache she carries for Zavosh. Through her letters—sometimes tender, sometimes cruel—Bibi pulls him back into a love that refuses to die, even as distance, time, and choices sharpen its pain. Every time she returns to Iran, her refuge is the warmth of Zavosh’s arms… and every time she leaves, she leaves him emptier than before. As Zavosh rereads the letters, the film intercuts between memory and present—revealing a fractured love story marked by freedom, desire, betrayal, and the quiet devastation of two people who can neither fully be together nor fully let go. A raw, intimate portrait of longing, Night One, Night Two is a story about the wounds we choose, the loves we return to, and the memories that refuse to fade.

Night of Terror

Night of Terror follows one sleepless night in the final years before the Iranian Revolution, where the lives of two men—born from the same wounded past yet shaped into opposite extremes—intertwine in a tense psychological spiral. Hedayat, a university professor and once-idealistic intellectual, now finds himself paralyzed by fear, self-doubt, and the weight of a collapsing society. His anger turns inward, feeding a quiet, corrosive despair. Meanwhile, Hadi, a brutal security agent molded by the same history, has learned to weaponize his rage outward, inflicting pain on others with ruthless confidence. As political unrest intensifies outside, both men are forced to confront the origins of their shared darkness. Through fragmented memories, feverish thoughts, and the growing tremor of revolution in the streets, the story reveals that the line between the “intellectual” and the “thug” is thinner than it appears—both products of the same broken system, both carrying the same seed of violence. Over the course of a single night, their inner storms collide with the external chaos of a nation on the brink, where buried rage erupts, identities crumble, and no one escapes the fire of what is coming.

The Infernal Times of Mr. Ayaz

Set in a brutal imperial court where power is measured in blood, The Infernal Times of Mr. Ayaz follows the haunting confession of Ayaz, a young servant bound to Sultan Mahmud. The story opens with a public execution—an act of savage spectacle that exposes the cruelty ruling the land. As Ayaz recalls the dismemberment of a man named Mansour, his memories begin to unravel a deeper truth about his own life. Through fragmented flashbacks, Ayaz recounts the disappearance and death of his family: a murdered father, brothers hunted by the regime, and the tragic fate of his gentle brother Samad. Inside the palace, he carries a forbidden love for Kimia, a young woman forced to flee after a dangerous secret is revealed. Drawn back into the world outside the palace walls, Ayaz joins his surviving brothers on a desperate search for Samad — a journey that confronts him with the stark contrast between their struggle for freedom and his own entanglement in the court’s violence. Torn between blood ties and the oppressive sanctuary of the palace, Ayaz must face the truth of who he has become — and the dark bond that ties him irrevocably to the sultan.

‏Adieu Gary Cooper

Set against the vast, icy silence of the Swiss Alps, Adieu Gary Cooper follows Lenny, a restless young American who has walked away from the world he was born into. Drawn to the mountains for their purity and danger, he seeks a life stripped of expectations, politics, and the noise of the modern age. Lenny’s retreat is shaken when he meets Jess Donahue, the sharp-witted daughter of a U.S. diplomat. Their unlikely connection pulls him into a circle of wanderers—outsiders and idealists who escape to the heights hoping to outrun their own shadows. But the mountains are not simply a refuge; they are a mirror. As Lenny is forced to confront where he comes from and what he’s running toward, the snowy peaks begin to close in around him, revealing the thin line between freedom and isolation. A story of youth, rebellion, and quiet longing, Adieu Gary Cooper explores what happens when a generation searching for meaning climbs as high as it can go—only to find that the air grows thinner with every step.

Bloody

In a city haunted by loss and unfinished stories, Mohsen Meftah, a young man struggling to fund his studies in Beirut, takes over his late father’s unusual job: performing prayers on behalf of the dead. His routine visits to the cemetery lead him to the graves of five brothers, known as the Sukhteh siblings—men scattered across Mashhad, Tehran, Abadan, and war-torn Beirut, each claimed by a different shadow of history. As Mohsen begins to trace the fragments of their lives, he is pulled into a world where personal tragedy, political upheaval, forbidden love, and forgotten wars collide. Through his eyes, their stories unfold like a tapestry of the Iran–Iraq War era, the violent streets of the 1980s, and the chaos beyond the country’s borders. Ghosts—both real and metaphorical—emerge, blurring the line between past and present, truth and memory. What begins as a simple act of duty becomes a journey into the heart of a fractured generation. Mohsen must confront not only the brothers’ lost paths but the forces that shaped an entire society—forces that refuse to stay buried. “Bloody” is a haunting, atmospheric drama about five lives extinguished too soon, and the young man determined to understand why.

My Uncle Napoleon

In 1940s Tehran, young Saeed falls hopelessly in love with his cousin Leili, the daughter of his paranoid uncle, Colonel Daei Jan Napoleon — a man obsessed with the idea that the British are behind every misfortune. As Saeed struggles to win Leili’s heart amid a web of family feuds, absurd scandals, and mistaken conspiracies, the household spirals into chaos. What begins as a love story turns into a biting satire of pride, paranoia, and the crumbling illusions of an aristocratic family convinced that the whole world is plotting against them.

‏The Raw Shark Texts

After waking up in a house he doesn’t recognize, Eric Sanderson discovers he has no memory of who he is or how he got there. Letters addressed to him from a “previous version” of himself begin to arrive, warning of an invisible predator that feeds not on flesh, but on thoughts and identity. As Eric follows the cryptic trail of clues across England, he becomes entangled in a world where memory, language, and reality blur together — a place where ideas have weight, and forgotten emotions can take physical form. Haunted by the ghost of a lost love and hunted by something that shouldn’t exist, Eric must piece together the truth about his past before it’s completely erased. A mix of psychological thriller, metaphysical mystery, and emotional odyssey, The Raw Shark Texts explores the limits of memory, the fragility of identity, and the terrifying hunger of the things we can’t see.

The Cold Coffee of Mr. Writer

A young writer named Arman Roozbeh wakes one morning with a memory he thought long buried, of loving a girl fifteen years his senior. That memory—an odd, delicate affair born of childhood obsession—pulls him into a maze of guilt and longing. Two decades later, Arman is successful but haunted: a single musical piece, once playful sabotage in his youth, resurfaces on stage and brings everything crashing into view. Simultaneously, Maral, a sharp-witted journalist and Arman’s former love, grapples with his sudden disappearance and the cryptic letters he sends. As she tracks the truth, Arman plunges into the surreal corridors of a psychiatric hospital, where reality frays and identities double-back on themselves. As past and present collide, the writer must decide whether to confront his secret sabotage, the ambiguous love he once felt, and the person he has become. In the chill of unanswered questions, their lives converge over a cup of cold coffee that holds more meaning than either of them ever expected.

House of Leaves

When Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Will Navidson moves his family into a quiet Virginia farmhouse, he hopes for a return to normal life. But soon, an impossible discovery shatters that peace — the house is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. Curiosity turns to obsession as Navidson begins documenting the house’s shifting corridors and endless, cold darkness. The deeper he ventures, the more reality bends: walls breathe, gravity folds, and time dissolves. Parallel to this footage, Johnny Truant, a young man drifting through Los Angeles, stumbles upon the unfinished manuscript of an old, blind scholar named Zampanò — a detailed analysis of Navidson’s impossible film. As Johnny deciphers the text, his own grip on sanity unravels; the house seems to follow him, whispering through every page. Two men, decades apart, become bound by the same labyrinth — one made of brick and shadow, the other of words and fear. Inside both, the same question waits at the end of every corridor: What happens when the space you live in begins to consume you?

Her Eyes

After the mysterious death of Master Makan, a celebrated painter and political exile, a haunting portrait titled Her Eyes captures the nation’s attention — the image of a woman whose gaze holds untold stories. Years later, a school director obsessed with uncovering the truth seeks to find the real woman behind those eyes. When she finally appears — Farangis, once a privileged young woman turned disillusioned artist — her confession reveals a forbidden bond between passion, art, and rebellion in a time of tyranny. Through her memories, the painting’s silent eyes begin to speak of love, sacrifice, and the cost of freedom.

The Blind Owl

Alone in a decaying house on the edge of the desert, Nader, a tormented painter, drifts between dream and delirium. Haunted by the image of a mysterious woman and a shadowy old man beneath a cypress tree, he becomes trapped in a cycle of obsession, guilt, and hallucination. As opium-fueled visions blur the line between past and present, love and death, Nader’s grip on reality begins to crumble. The world around him — filled with grotesque faces, fleeting beauty, and unbearable silence — becomes a mirror of his own fractured soul.

Symphony of the Dead

In the snowbound city of Ardabil, the Orkhani family stands at the crossroads of faith, power, and change. Among them, Aydin, a young man devoted to art and freedom, struggles against the suffocating traditions of his stern father and the envy of his brother, Orhan. Torn between loyalty and independence, love and duty, Aydin’s defiance slowly unravels the fragile balance that holds the family together. Through generations of silence, guilt, and lost dreams, their lives intertwine like movements of a dark, haunting symphony — one that echoes long after the music stops.

Project Chimera

PROJECT CHIMERA is a present-day action thriller where the missing don’t come home. They break out. For years, a black-site program erased six ordinary people from the world. No ransom. No bodies. No answers. Behind sealed doors, scientists rebuilt them into engineered hybrids. Human spliced with predator. Bone reshaped. Blood rewritten. Names replaced by codenames. Then, an incident tears the facility open. Five experiments escape into the city. Seth Vaymar, designated VIPERION, is the first through the breach. Part man, part serpent, he moves with silent precision and a vengeance that never cooled. He does not run to survive. He runs to hunt. The people who did this, and the world that let it happen, are on his list. At his side is Lennie Marrow, designated CHARCHARION. A human-shark hybrid made for impact and appetite, he follows the smell of fear like a signal. Where Viperion plans, Charcharion crashes. Together they turn an escape into a message. But the other survivors refuse to become the lab’s prophecy. Lyra Storm, designated AERALIS, carries wings that make her a target in every camera frame. Kailey Forrester, designated STRYVERA, a white tiger hybrid built for slaughter, wants one impossible thing. To see her family again and still be recognized. They move through back alleys and abandoned places, trying to pass as human long enough to reach home, while the city closes in with armed teams and blind panic. Caught between them is Damon Kross, designated LYKANIS. A wolf-hybrid with instincts on a hair trigger, he shifts from protector to threat in a heartbeat. He doesn’t know which side he belongs to. He only knows the world outside feels as dangerous as the one they escaped. And somewhere beneath the same concrete walls they fled, Selena Graves remains in captivity. Designated VENOMORA. A toxic butterfly hybrid, she is the most lethal specimen the project produced. Her poison kills fast. Her presence turns air into a weapon. Yet she is the gentlest among them, trapped in a body designed to end lives. Viperion wants her freed, not to save her, but to unleash her. In his mind, Venomora is the point of no return. The difference between revenge and extinction. As the manhunt escalates, alliances form in the wrong places. Some of the hybrids risk everything to work with humans who want the truth exposed. Others choose open war. The experiment becomes the headline. The city becomes the cage. And the question stops being who survives. The question becomes what escapes with them. PROJECT CHIMERA is a relentless blend of action and drama about stolen identities, fractured loyalties, and the moment victims decide what the world deserves back.

Cold Files ( Die Kalten Akten )

Cold Files is a surreal German crime mystery set in the early 2000s. Johann Stolz, a disgraced 50-year-old former detective, returns to the police force as a nobody in the archives. His job is to read unsolved cold cases and file them away. Until every file becomes a door. Johann has to go to the actual crime scene, and once he steps onto the location, the world shifts. Like an invisible spirit, he sees the murder with brutal clarity. Time rewinds around him. Footsteps. Voices. The killer’s route. The victim’s final moments. It all plays out in front of his eyes. The first presence to find him is Lydia Finkel, a rape and murder victim who becomes his guide. She pulls Johann toward scenes no one wants reopened, showing him details that never made it into reports. Johann has to turn what he witnessed into real evidence before anyone labels him unstable. Case by case, he exposes killers the system missed, until a pattern points back to a legend from the East Germany era under Soviet control. A faceless murderer known as Der Gesichtlose. When Johann reaches Lydia’s file, he returns to her crime scene and relives everything. And there, in the sharpest vision of all, he learns the truth. The man he’s been hunting is the one who killed her. Now Johann isn’t sorting old failures. He’s being pulled straight toward the most dangerous case of his life.

StoryShuffle

StoryShuffle is a serial anthology framed as bedtime. Henry Hemsely tells stories to his grandkids, Selene and Milo. He is a shaky storyteller, so he rewrites everything mid sentence. The kids interrupt and demand changes. Comedy swings into action, then into sudden drama. The twist. The characters inside the stories hear Henry’s narration. They argue with the voice controlling their world. Five rotating stories drive the series. The Knight and the Talking Tree Sir Alden Greyford gets an order from King Edwin of Bramblekeep. Kill the “monster” in the Blackwood. Alden charges in with a sword that keeps breaking. At the center, he finds Gravelroot, a kind talking tree who wants someone to listen. Henry tries to force a battle. The kids change the rules. Alden gets a ridiculous fire sneeze. Gaylord Munck appears to mock every mistake. Alden wins by listening, not killing. The Three-Day Sheriff Jack Miles enters a dusty border town and gets mistaken for a sheriff because of his huge hat. He teams with Claudia, his smart horse, and Rose Harper, the saloon owner. Billy “Three Fingers” Kane threatens the town. The kids demand a ten man duel and random chaos, including a giant cow in the street. Jack becomes a hero by doing the job while terrified. The Last Bus Sam Headley drives an old bus toward a bridge that closes soon. Every passenger creates a new problem. A cat rescue detour. A prank kid. A forgotten stop. A couple fighting in the aisle. Mad Tax narrating louder than Henry. Officer Baker chasing them for shifting reasons. Sam holds the group together and pushes through the chaos. Operation Teapot Occupied France. A resistance team must destroy an enemy radio station. They discover it under a bakery, surrounded by tea and pastries. The kids demand cake, so the team throws a tea party as cover. Messages hide in poetry. A cake loving enemy soldier becomes a weak link. The mission succeeds through distraction and nerve. Café Rain In a small town cafe, Ethan Parker and Claire Bertrand keep meeting. Every time they get close to honesty, it rains. The regulars вмеш. The musician scores the tension. The painter captures their moments. The kids demand upgrades, so the rain turns colorful and the cafe turns surreal. The rain stops only after they admit their feelings. StoryShuffle runs on one engine. Henry, Selene, and Milo reshape the plot in real time. The story worlds fight back. The bedtime voice becomes part of the action.

The Confession

On a freezing winter night, a mysterious hitman known as The Confessor steps into a quiet church and demands that a priest hear his confession. What begins as a tense, uneasy exchange quickly turns into a psychological duel as the two men argue about guilt, punishment, morality, and faith. Through fragmented glimpses of the hitman’s past, it becomes clear that he has lived a life shaped by violence but also unexpected moments of restraint. The priest challenges him, searching for a spark of remorse, while the hitman pushes back, determined to expose uncomfortable truths about human nature—and about the priest himself. As the night unfolds, their conversation grows darker and more personal, building toward a revelation that forces both men to confront the deepest parts of who they are. By the time the confession ends, neither the priest nor the confessor will leave the encounter unchanged.

Rope

Two brilliant but dangerously arrogant young men, Brandon and Philip, commit what they believe is the “perfect murder,” strangling a former classmate to prove an intellectual point. Seeking the thrill of superiority, they hide the body in a chest… then invite the victim’s friends and family over for a dinner party—using that same chest as the serving table. As guests mingle unaware, the tension grows unbearable. Brandon revels in the secret, treating the murder like an elegant philosophical experiment. Philip, wracked with guilt, begins to unravel. But it’s their former mentor, Rupert Cadell, a sharp-minded professor with a taste for moral debate, who senses something off. His curiosity turns into suspicion as the evening drifts from polite conversation to chilling glimpses of the boys’ twisted beliefs. Every movement in the room becomes a ticking clock, every remark a test of conscience. What began as an intellectual game soon threatens to collapse under the weight of their own philosophy—and the presence of a man clever enough to expose it.

God of Carnage

A minor playground scuffle brings two seemingly composed couples together for what should be a simple conversation. Alain and Annette Reille, polished, well-off, and determined to stay formal, arrive at the apartment of Véronique and Michel Houllié, who pride themselves on being rational, cultured, and morally grounded. The incident? Alain and Annette’s son, Ferdinand, struck Bruno, the Houlliés’ son, during an argument, leaving Bruno with a bruised lip and a damaged tooth. Nothing life-changing—at least, that’s what the adults keep telling themselves. At first, everyone speaks with polite smiles and careful restraint. Véronique tries to guide the conversation with intellectual calm, Michel hides his impatience behind casual humor, Alain remains half-distracted by work calls, and Annette struggles to keep her nerves steady. But beneath their smooth manners, tension stirs. What begins as a civil discussion about two boys becomes a slow-burning confrontation between four adults. Old frustrations slip into the room. Tone grows sharper. Small remarks ignite bigger reactions. Alliances shift, tempers rise, and the elegant living space turns into a battleground of pride, resentment, and unraveling composure. By the end of the afternoon, the fight between Ferdinand and Bruno seems almost innocent compared to the storm their parents unleash on one another.

Waiting For Adolphe

A cozy dinner among lifelong friends is thrown into chaos when Vincent Leprince, charming, confident, and soon to be a father, casually reveals the name he plans to give his unborn son: Adolphe. What starts as a joke—or so everyone hopes—hits a nerve instantly. Pierre Salomon, Élisabeth’s husband and a proud Marxist who despises everything tied to fascism, erupts in disbelief. Élisabeth tries to mediate, but Vincent enjoys provoking Pierre just a little too much. Meanwhile, Anna Delambre, Vincent’s pregnant wife, watches the storm with a mix of confusion and amusement. And their childhood friend Claude Barret, always the quiet observer, suddenly finds himself pulled into the argument. Within minutes, the warm family gathering spirals into a sharp, hilarious, and bitter clash. Political ideologies collide, personal grievances resurface, and long-ignored tensions between siblings, spouses, and friends bubble up fast. As the night unravels, the name “Adolphe” becomes more than a name—it becomes the match that sets off a chain of confessions, accusations, and revelations that these five people never expected to face at a simple dinner at home. By the end, this seemingly trivial conversation forces everyone to confront who they are, what they believe, and how fragile even the closest relationships can be.