
Vishka Asayesh
Actor · b. 1972 · Tehran, Iran
Vishka Asayesh was born on November 7, 1972 in Tehran. She is an Iranian actress, set designer and an art director. She obtained a degree in set design from the U.K. She is also a sculptor and has exhibited her art works at Etemad Gallery in Tehran in 2012. Vishka Asayesh is an Iranian actress, performer, art director, and sculptor. She became a household name following her portrayal of a female fatal in the epic hit TV series Imam Ali. She has been nominated 3 times for the best actress award of the Fajr Film Festival and won the Crystal Simorgh for best actress in a leading role in 2011 for No Men Allowed. This was the first time this award was bestowed to a female in a comedy role in the history of this festival. Her most successful films include No Men Allowed (2011), Sperm Whale (2015), Me and Sharmin (2017), The Good, the Bad & the Corny (2017), and Sly (2018). Her latest role is in The Badger (2020) and is a total shift from her comedy performances in recent years. Her stage performances include The Beauty Queen of Leenane (2013), a dramatic play written by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, and Mississippi Dies Seated (2016), based on a play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Vishka was also nominated for the best leading actress award for her role in The Beauty Queen of Leenane by the 11th Iranian Theater Actor Festival. Sculpting is one of Vishka’s main passions apart from cinema and theater and she has already exhibited her art at Etemad and Assar galleries in Tehran and is currently working on her next exhibition due in 2020.
Movies23
Movie6.4ComedyDramaCommissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · 160 votes
Movie6.2DramaA hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
Movie7.9DramaThe imprisoned Iranian women’s rights activist Maryam is allowed to meet her family for seven days. Her husband and children beg Maryam to flee with them instead of returning to prison but she has not yet made her decision.
Movie6.2CrimeDramaThe lack of communication between the mother and the father of a 13 year old, leads inevitably to a divorce. During this ordeal their son, feeling out of place, befriends some troubled older kids and gets involved in murder.
Movie5.8DramaComedyA serial killer is going around killing Iran's most beloved filmmakers. Hasan, a blacklisted filmmaker himself, is depressed and wonders: why isn't he being targeted?
Movie6.0DramaThe Badger is the story of a 40-year-old woman called Soodeh Sharifzadegan who faces a strange incident, right before her second marriage.
Movie8.0Naser Khavari and his fiancee ...
MovieDramaDramaSudabeh returns to Iran after years to escape the punishment of conscience, but he needs to tell a secret that it is difficult to tell a secret ...
Movie5.3DramaPiano teacher Roya (Mahnaz Afshar) realizes that her marriage to Ali is in a deadlock when she discovers some of her husband's secrets. In the meantime she meets a young musician (Saber Abar) and has to make a painful choice.
Movie5.0ComedyThe story of a young girl Tina who believes in her aunt's forecasts which is affecting all her life. She is not getting married, waiting for her hidden half Sharmin to come.
Movie3.2DramaComedyThe film addresses a series of questions about the sexual problems of Iran's youth from puberty until marriage life.
Movie2.0DramaThis movie is a romance scene in the context of a city trip in Tehran, where the main character of the film is trying to maintain the balance between the four personality dimensions of a woman (Mistress, Mother, Amazon, and Madonna archetypes). Like the very close encounter, this movie has a playfulness and narcissistic feelings besides thematic and temporal concerns.
The Red Trauma
2017 · 1 votes
Movie4.2FamilyDramaWhen the corrupted groom starts shooting in the wedding ceremony, guests try to run away. Aida and Davoud accidentally end up in a car that crashes a police car. Aida lies to the inspector that Davoud is her husband and that's where the story begins.
Movie5.0ComedyAn artistic director is put under pressure by a wealthy investor to make a police movie featuring two commercial actors. The director believes they are the worst choices for the film but in order to prepare them for the roles he enlists the help of a police officer.
Movie4.0ComedyDramaGhodrat Samadi wants to become a member of parliament, but he has a reputation for recklessness and taking arbitrary action. Deciding his best course of action is negotiating with assorted parties and politicians, none take him seriously until he's connected to a single, notorious incident.
Movie4.8ComedyDramaReza is a naive and honest middle age teacher that has difficulties in communicating with women. He meets a gummies saleswoman
MovieRomanceFour years after breaking up, Mahmood meets Yasaman on the day of her father's funeral, just after the latter has returned back from abroad. Mahmood has met Mina a year after his and ...
Movie3.4ComedyThe adventure of a plane crash with passengers who have different secrets; the secrets that are not supposed to remain hidden forever...
Movie6.8DramaDue to drought, Rasoul has left the village. He is glad to find a job as a night guardian at a complex under construction. In the deserted construction site, something wrong is going on. In the strange circumstances around him, Rasoul finds himself trapped…
Movie1.0DramaMahtab and Ava are classmates in their second year of college studying engineering. The story begin when they and other classmates go on a trip to Esfahan.
Movie5.1ComedyArjang, who was born before the revolution in Iran, has been in love with his childhood sweetheart, Roya, for the past 40 years. Roya, however, has brought him nothing but trouble. Now 50, and having experienced a revolution, a war, a divorce and both poverty and wealth, Arjang finds himself still in love with Roya.
Movie3.9DramaRomance- MovieComedy
Jamsheed 'Jerry' Shahbazi is a down-and-out Persian billboard lawyer who, desperate for cash, joins an insurance scam that spirals out of control. Soon, he must escape a deadly triangle involving the feds, the Armenian mob and his own chaotic Persian family.
Series6
TV6.5DramaMysteryArmin is a gifted and introspective student of network security that spends most of his time on his newly established book publishing site.
TV6.5DramaWar & PoliticsThe Mokhtar Narrative is an Epic/History television series directed by Davood Mirbagheri, based on the life of Al-Mokhtar. Over 140 actors were cast in it. Mokhtar Saqafi was a Shiite Muslim leader who sets up a rebellion movement in 686 A.D in the town of Kufa to avenge the martyrdom of Hussain (grandson of Islamic Prophet Muhammad).
TV6.6DramaDocumentaryseries focusing on the life of Ali ibn Abi Talib, directed by Davood Mirbagheri and originally broadcast in 1992 in 22 episodes. It was subsequently released on DVD, with other editions including one with English sub-titles, and one dubbed into Urdu. The series covers the events before the caliphate of Ali ibn Abi Talib to his assassination in Kufa, Iraq.
TV10.0DramaFamilyBahman Mardani after, 30 years, turns back to Iran to find out about a puzzle that made him left his country.
TV7.0DramaComedyKamran Kamerva is informed that his son has been arrested for setting up betting sites abroad and that agents will come to him soon. Upon hearing this news, Kamerva boarded his helicopter and ...
TV6.7ComedyFamilyDivar Be Divar (2017) Divar be Divar is a Iranian comedy show made in the Persian year 1396, or the year 2017. The show contains 2 seasons with 48 episodes in season 1, and 17 episodes in season 2. This show is about 4 families who have lost their money due to buying apartments. While having no place to stay, they all move to one big house, but things became crazier then expected.