Taies Farzan
Biography
Taies Farzan (born 1974 in Tehran) is a Turkish-German-Iranian actress, film director, and producer. Taies Farzan was born in Iran, spent part of her childhood in Turkey, and moved to Germany in 1990, where she completed her *Abitur* (secondary school graduation) in 1993. She received her acting training through various seminars, drama schools, and workshops in Germany and Turkey. Subsequently, she worked as a stage, film, and television actress, as well as a voice actress for radio dramas, across several countries and languages. Farzan made her feature film debut in 2005 in Yılmaz Arslan’s drama *Fatricide – Brudermord*. She also garnered international attention as a director with her short film *Weiße Lügen* (White Lies), which was awarded Best International Directorial Debut at the 2007 LA Independent Film and Video Festival. As an actress, she has played lead roles in films such as *Hitler’s Grave*, *Içimdeki Sessiz Nehir*, *Pia*, and *Sandstern*. Additionally, from 2012 to 2014, she played the title role in *Antigone* at the Istanbul State Theatre. Farzan works in Persian, Turkish, English, and German, and also possesses basic knowledge of the Kurdish language.
Known For & Full Filmography13 Titles
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as Middle Class Iranian Woman
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • as Hacer
A barber working in Istanbul longs to be ‘both here and far, far away’. One day, he takes the day off and disappears abruptly without warning anyone. He then settles in a far-flung village. Some mysterious events start happening in the village as people disappear one by one.
Movie - 2007, 2h 15m • as Berta
A 2007 English language comedy film written and directed by Daryush Shokof, starring Souzan Alavi, Blondine Costaz and Taies Farzan.
Drama Series - 2023, 16 episodes • as Shahanaz
Set in 1980s London, a group of Arab students attempts to navigate life amid love, jealousy, and conspiracy in the city of fog.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Dr. Farhadi
Elaha, 22, believes she must restore her supposed innocence before she weds. A surgeon could reconstruct her hymen but she cannot afford such an operation. She asks herself: why does she have to be a virgin anyway, and for whom?
Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • as Shireen
A recently orphaned young Kurdish-French woman travels to Iraqi Kurdistan to find her mother's village, likely destroyed during the Anfal genocide. On her journey she meets two American film students who are traveling to remote villages screening Charlie Chaplin films. They decide to help her search, an undertaking that brings them to the war-weary Mount Qandil, dubbed by the locals the Kurdish Bermuda Triangle, along the Iraqi-Turkish-Iranian borders.
Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • as Roya
Young American Catherine Mulligan follows her love to Iran and converts to Islam. After being raped she is sentenced to death by stoning.
Movie - 2011, 2h 15m • as Atossa
A young Islamic woman, whose brother is tortured to death during the Iranian elections, goes to Berlin to fulfill two promises made to her brother on his deathbed.
Movie - 2005, 2h 15m • as Zilan
Two young Kurdish refugees, recently arrived in Germany struggle to make their way through the harshness of the occidental city. Their encounter with a gang of Turks will rapidly led them into an inevitable tragical spiral filled with death and revenge.
Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An out-of-pocket friendship between a criminal who escapes from justice and a child he has to take hostage.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Fatma
Set in West Germany in the 1980s, the tormented destiny of a young Turk confronted with uprooting and illness...
Movie - 2011, 2h 15m • as Ayla
Halis is in his 40s, he is one of his own, who makes a living by his own katmer shop. He and his wife, Ayla, have had the coldness for years now. Probably the only common points of Halis and Ayla are their daughters. Halis, who is also a municipal councilor, takes Meznun one day to run next to the katmer shop. Grateful to Halis for recruiting him in the beginning, Meznun crumbles the family's tense but obscure mundane lives after a while. The privacy is up and the family is faced with the realities that are known but are afraid to speak ...
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • as Arzu
Ali Baltaoglu, a construction magnate with high-fying ambitions and deep ties with the government who dreams of carrying Europe’s Alps to the Black Sea in a Dubai-like metropolitan city concept, sponsors three guys -who are not even in the flm business- to flm a documentary about the urban legends of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Ali Baltaoglu plans to use the documentary as a covert advertisement and propaganda tool for the beneft of his mountain city project 'Kackar MegaMount 2023' which was planned to be built within Kackar Mountains National Park. Joined by a reticent driver who cannot drive, they set out to locate the legendary Swearing Ofu Hodja, a saintly and foul-mouthed imam with supernatural powers who works miracles, supports nuclear fusion, and condemns all kinds of authority. The team tumbles through a series of misadventures brought on them by the mysterious hodja, changing their lives forever in this war between matter and meaning.