Stories by @sepanta_kazemi

One Point Perspective

At the height of his fame, Stanley Kubrick retreats from Hollywood and turns filmmaking into an obsession with absolute control. From the abandoned dream of Napoleon to the punishing perfectionism of The Shining and the secrecy surrounding Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick pushes actors, studios, and himself beyond their limits in pursuit of something flawless. As his legend grows, so does the distance between the man, his family, and the world outside his carefully constructed frame. One Point Perspective is an intimate psychological portrait of a filmmaker who spent his life controlling every image—while slowly discovering that some things cannot be directed.

DANGEROUSLY

In 1990s Philadelphia, a brilliant and reckless promoter transforms a struggling wrestling company into a violent underground revolution. As Paul Heyman pushes ECW from a cult phenomenon toward national fame, his greatest creation begins to collapse beneath ambition, loyalty, and a mountain of debt.

AUTEUR

A young Japanese dreamer enters the video game industry after abandoning his hopes of becoming a filmmaker, only to discover a new medium for telling stories. From the unlikely creation of Metal Gear to worldwide fame, corporate conflict, and the collapse of everything he built, Hideo Kojima risks starting over from nothing—determined to prove that games can become something the world has never seen before.

All Caps

After tragedy shatters his life and derails his rising career, Daniel Dumile disappears from hip-hop—only to return years later behind a metal mask. Reborn as MF DOOM, he transforms grief, isolation, and rejection into one of the most mysterious and influential personas in music history.

The King: A Jack Kirby Story

In the golden age of American comics, Jack Kirby rises from the streets of New York to become one of the most influential artists in the medium’s history. As he helps create gods, heroes, and entire universes, Kirby finds himself fighting a more personal battle—over recognition, ownership, and the true cost of building worlds that may never fully belong to him.

One Winged Angel

From a small-town dreamer in Canada to a wrestling icon in Japan, Kenny Omega sacrifices comfort, certainty, and pieces of himself in pursuit of perfection. Through friendship, rivalry, reinvention, and pain, he discovers that becoming the best in the world may demand more than any championship can repay. ONE WINGED ANGEL is the story of a man who turned wrestling into art—and nearly destroyed himself trying to make it immortal.

The Final Countdown

From small independent wrestling halls to the brightest stages in the world, Bryan Danielson spends his life fighting to prove that passion can outweigh size, politics, and pain. But when the career he loves begins to destroy the body carrying it, he is forced to confront the one opponent he cannot outwrestle: time itself. The Final Countdown is an intimate, visceral story of ambition, sacrifice, family, and the impossible need to keep fighting—even when walking away may be the bravest victory of all.

Human After All

In 1990s Paris, two quiet teenagers, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, turn their shared obsession with music into something the world has never seen before. From underground clubs and homemade machines to global superstardom, the pair reinvent themselves as mysterious robots, hiding their faces while transforming electronic music forever. But behind the chrome helmets are two friends navigating fame, artistic obsession, technology, isolation, and the increasingly blurred line between the humans they are and the icons they have created. Spanning nearly three decades, Human After All is the story of Daft Punk — their music, their friendship, their mythology, and the final decision to let the robots disappear.

Victims of a Down

In 1990s Los Angeles, four young Armenian Americans—shaped by migration, inherited trauma, and buried anger—create a sound unlike anything their generation has heard. Rising from small clubs to the world’s biggest stages, System of a Down becomes the voice of a restless generation through music that is chaotic, political, absurd, and impossible to ignore. But as the band’s fame grows, so does the divide between Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian over creativity, control, and the future of the group. While the four members fight to deliver a shared message to the world, they discover that staying united may be harder than challenging the entire system. Victims of a Down is the story of four artists who found one voice—but could never agree on a single truth.

Kingdom of One

Once collaborators, two of hip-hop’s defining voices find themselves locked in a quiet battle for the crown. As admiration turns to rivalry and coded lyrics become public declarations of war, their conflict spreads from recording studios to families, headlines, and millions of listeners around the world. With every verse reshaping the truth and every response raising the stakes, both men must decide how much of themselves they are willing to sacrifice to prove that, in a kingdom built for one, they are the only rightful king.

Exit Music

In the rain-soaked suburbs of Oxford, five outsiders find each other at the exact moment they begin drifting away from the world around them. EXIT MUSIC is not the story of a band becoming famous—it is the story of five young men trying to survive success, reinvention, and their own restless creativity. As the music industry demands certainty, they pursue uncertainty, transforming from awkward school friends into one of the most influential and enigmatic bands in modern history. Told through fractured memories, late-night recording sessions, creative battles, and moments of fragile friendship, the film follows Thom Yorke and Radiohead as they struggle against expectations, fame, and the fear of becoming trapped by their own past. As decades pass and the world changes around them, one question remains: How do you keep moving forward when everyone wants you to stay the same? A haunting and emotionally charged portrait of art, obsession, friendship, and the price of refusing to stand still. “For a minute there, I lost myself.”

In The End

From a small garage in Southern California to becoming the voice of a generation, IN THE END tells the extraordinary story of six young musicians whose passion, friendship, and determination transformed them into one of the most influential rock bands of the 21st century. As their music reaches millions around the world, the band must navigate the pressures of fame, personal struggles, and the sacrifices that come with chasing a dream. Through triumph, heartbreak, and an unbreakable bond forged by music, they discover that the greatest legacy is not measured by records sold or stages conquered, but by the lives they touch along the way. Directed by James Mangold, IN THE END is a powerful and emotional celebration of brotherhood, resilience, and the enduring impact of Linkin Park — the band that gave a voice to a generation.

The Snowman

The first snow falls on Oslo, clean and quiet. By morning, a woman is missing. In her yard, a snowman stands where it shouldn’t, watching the house like a warning. Detective Harry Hole steps into a case that feels wrong from the start. No struggle. No clear suspect. Only a pattern that starts to surface as more families break apart. Women vanish. Winter keeps erasing footprints. And after each disappearance, a snowman appears. Built with care. Placed with intent. Harry teams up with a sharp young investigator and follows the trail through suburb streets, cold apartments, and files no one wants reopened. The deeper they go, the more the case looks like a ritual. A killer who plans around weather. A killer who doesn’t rush. A killer who wants to be remembered. Oslo turns into a frozen maze. Witnesses misremember. Old cases echo the new ones. The police chase shadows while the snow keeps falling, covering evidence, covering guilt, covering fear. Harry realizes the snowmen aren’t trophies. They’re countdowns. As the storm closes in, Harry has to connect the past to the present before the next snowfall brings another perfect, silent figure. Another empty house. And another name erased by winter.

The Redeemer

Oslo, late November. The city dresses itself in Christmas lights, but the cold underneath is real. Crowds gather. Music plays. And somewhere behind the glow, a rifle is being assembled with steady hands. A Salvation Army street concert becomes the perfect cover for a killing. One shot. One body. Panic in the snow. The shooter disappears into the holiday rush like he was never there. Detective Harry Hole arrives to a scene that feels staged for maximum chaos. Witnesses clash. Timelines slip. A single clue suggests the assassin is trained, disciplined, and following a plan that started long before this night. As Harry hunts through Oslo’s back streets and quiet rooms, the case opens into two worlds. One is the city’s public face, charity, faith, and tradition. The other is hidden, built from old loyalties, old crimes, and men who learned to survive by becoming ruthless. The killer isn’t improvising. He’s correcting something. Every move points to a target beyond the first victim. Harry realizes the murder is not the end of the story. It’s the opening scene. With Christmas closing in, the pressure turns personal. Harry pushes past orders, past politics, past the limits of his own body. Because the next shot is already scheduled. And in a city singing carols, someone is about to deliver redemption at gunpoint.

The Devil’s Star

Oslo is sweating through a brutal summer when the first body turns up. A young woman lies in her apartment, staged with quiet precision. In her mouth, a small red five-pointed star. Not jewelry. Not a symbol of love. A signature. Detective Harry Hole returns to a department that barely trusts him. The case is high-profile, the city is on edge, and the pressure is political. Harry gets a new partner, a polished investigator from Security Police with perfect manners and unreadable motives. Together they follow a trail of victims who seem unrelated. Different neighborhoods. Different lives. One common detail. The star. Then the killings escalate. Each scene feels like a performance designed for an audience of one. Harry senses the murderer is not chasing attention. He’s testing the police. He’s testing Harry. And he’s hiding behind rules that only he understands. As Harry pushes into Oslo’s night world, the heat turns the city into a pressure cooker. Leads rot fast. Witnesses lie. Evidence points in two directions at once. Harry starts to suspect the worst. The killer is inside the investigation’s blind spot. When a private tragedy hits close to home, Harry breaks protocol and runs the case on instinct. He digs into old files, old grudges, and a pattern nobody wanted reopened. The more he learns, the clearer the trap becomes. Someone is manufacturing trust. Someone is writing the next crime scene in advance. And the final star is meant for Harry.

Nemesis

Oslo, mid-day. A man walks into a bank with a cap pulled low and a calm voice. He gives the teller a deadline. No alarms. No heroics. One mistake and someone dies. Minutes later, he’s gone. The cash is gone. And a woman lies dead. Detective Harry Hole takes the case and sees the detail that doesn’t fit. The robbery looks clean. Too clean. Like a message. Then Harry gets hit from the side. An old girlfriend is found murdered in her apartment, and the evidence points straight at him. The department tightens the leash. The press smells blood. Someone wants Harry chasing two fires at once. As the bank robber strikes again, the pattern sharpens. Precise timing. Controlled fear. A plan built around pressure, not chaos. Harry digs into money trails, security footage, and the quiet lives of people who think they’re invisible. Every step forward costs him trust, allies, and time. The deeper he goes, the more the two cases start to echo each other. Motive hides behind a personal history. Revenge wears a professional mask. And Harry realizes the killer isn’t running from the police. He’s leading them. Oslo turns into a clock. Every tick brings another deadline. Harry has one job. Find the mind behind the robberies. Clear his own name. And stop the next call that ends with a body on the floor.

The Redbreast

In wintry Oslo, a single gunshot opens a door nobody wants opened. Detective Harry Hole gets pulled off routine police work and into a case that feels political, sealed, and untouchable. A rare rifle surfaces. A chain of quiet meetings, erased files, and coded warnings follows. Someone has planned a killing with patience, skill, and a grudge that refuses to die. As Harry tracks the weapon’s path, the city’s present starts to blur into another Norway, one buried under the snow of history. Decades earlier, young men chose sides during the German occupation. Some chased glory. Some chased survival. One choice, made in the name of loyalty, poisoned everything that came after. The investigation tightens around a small circle of veterans and a secret they protected for a lifetime. Harry realizes the target is not random. The shooter is not hunting power. He is hunting a name. He is hunting closure. With a storm building over Oslo, Harry races through freezing streets and dim hallways where the past still breathes. Every clue points to the same truth. This is not a murder plot. This is a reckoning. And the bullet that’s coming was fired a long time ago.

Cockroaches

In Bangkok, the Norwegian ambassador is found dead in a seedy hotel room. The official story needs to stay clean. The truth will not. Detective Harry Hole is sent in to shut the case fast and keep it quiet. No headlines. No scandal. No loose ends. But the city does not cooperate. Heat presses in. Neon hides decay. Everyone smiles while they measure your price. Harry follows the trail from embassy corridors to backstreet bars, from polite handshakes to paid silence. Each answer opens a deeper problem. A web of corruption, secrets, and debts that reaches far past the victim. The killer is close. The motive is older than the crime. As pressure mounts from both governments and criminals, Harry realizes the case is not about one death. It is about what powerful people fear becoming public. In a city where truth gets buried fast, Harry has one job. Dig it up before it buries him.

The Bat

When a young Norwegian woman is found murdered in Sydney, detective Harry Hole is sent halfway around the world to assist Australian police on a case that feels both distant and uncomfortably personal. Out of his element and battling his own shadows, Harry follows a trail through nightclubs, back alleys, and the bright, deceptive calm of coastal suburbs. Each lead pulls him deeper into a city where everyone seems to be performing a role. Witnesses with selective memories. Friends with motives. Strangers who know more than they admit. As the investigation tightens, Harry begins to see a pattern. The killer is patient. The crimes are controlled. And the next move is already in motion. To stop what’s coming, Harry must decode the logic behind the violence and confront the part of himself that recognizes it. Because in Sydney, the danger is not hiding in the dark. It is watching from above.

Lost in a Good Book

Thursday Next tries to build a quiet life after her last case, but the world around her starts to fracture. A political storm rises. A lost Shakespeare play reappears at the perfect moment. The powerful Goliath Corporation moves in the shadows. A new threat targets Thursday’s family. Reality feels unstable and someone is rewriting lives. To fight back, Thursday pushes deeper into fiction than ever. She learns to “bookjump,” entering stories without machines. Inside the vast universe of literature she meets Jurisfiction, a secret police force that protects the order of books. Miss Havisham becomes her volatile mentor as Thursday trains, solves crises inside classic novels, and uncovers traces of a hidden enemy manipulating memories. As pressure mounts in the real world and inside fiction, Thursday races to expose the conspiracy behind the political rise of a dangerous figure, the stolen manuscript at the center of the chaos, and the force trying to erase parts of her life. She crosses between worlds, evades time-agents and corporate hunters, and chases the truth buried in her own memories. The story builds toward a showdown that tests Thursday’s loyalty to her family, her world, and the fragile boundary between fiction and reality.