Age: 38
male
Navid Pourfaraj is an Iranian actor. He is best known for his role as Amir in Sheeple for which he earned a Crystal Simorgh, a Hafez Award, an Iran Cinema Celebration Award and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award nominations.
In The Body of Farhad, the story is told by a woman who drifts between time, memory, and imagination — a figure once seen only as a painted image on a pen case from The Blind Owl, now stepping out of the artwork to speak for herself. As she moves from canvas to canvas, she becomes different women across history: a noblewoman of the Sasanian era, a shy girl with glasses, a modern model posing under studio lights. Each new form carries the same invisible weight — generations of women separated by centuries yet bound by a shared struggle for freedom, dignity, and a happiness that always seems to slip just out of reach. The narrative unfolds like a stream of consciousness, blending dreams, fragments of the past, and echoes of ancient myths. Through shifting identities and blurred realities, the film explores the unbroken chain of expectations, silence, and sacrifice imposed on women in a deeply traditional world. What emerges is the portrait of a woman who refuses to stay confined — not to a painting, not to a role, not to a destiny written for her. As she breaks through one identity after another, her defiance becomes the voice of countless women before her, carrying the timeless ache of longing and the fierce need to be seen. The Body of Farhad becomes a poetic, haunting meditation on womanhood across the ages — a story where history, dream, and rebellion intertwine in the search for a life that finally belongs to her.
