Screen
Cinema, screenwriting, story and treatment contributions, assistant direction and video work by Ghazi Rabihavi, with source-specific credits.
Screen works and roles
Hejleh
Video work from photography and a story · 1989 · DIV.cz listing;18 September 2013 · Tableau upload
Kaveh Golestan’s war photograph and Rabihavi’s story meet in a narrated work presented by Tableau.
- Work and imagery · Tableau credit
- Kaveh Golestan
- Story · Tableau credit
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Narrator · DIV.cz credit
- Ghazi Rabihavi
Colours of Exile
Documentary · Documented in a thesis dated March 2025 · exact film premiere not established
Rabihavi appears among the Iranian artists interviewed for Vahid Keshavarz Sarkar’s documentary about exile.
- Filmmaker and doctoral researcher
- Vahid Keshavarz Sarkar
- Interview participant
- Ghazi Rabihavi
Chrysanthemums
Feature film · 1363 (1984–85) · recorded production year
An initial story outline by Ghazi Rabihavi, developed into a screenplay by Fereydoun Jeyrani and directed by Rasul Sadr Ameli.
- Initial story outline
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Screenplay
- Fereydoun Jeyrani
- Director
- Rasul Sadr Ameli
A Warm Day
Feature film · 1363 (1984–85) · recorded production year
An early original-story credit, following two car thieves and the consequences of an accident.
- Initial story outline
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Director, as listed by Salam Cinema
- Ali Asgari
- Writer, as listed by Salam Cinema
- Ali Asghar Asgarian
Beside the Ponds
Feature film · 1365 (1986–87) · recorded production year
Rabihavi contributed both to the writing and to assistant direction on a family drama directed by Yadollah Noasri.
- Writers, as listed by Salam Cinema
- Mehdi Assam, Ghazi Rabihavi, Yadollah Noasri
- Director
- Yadollah Noasri
- Assistant director
- Ghazi Rabihavi
Shadows of Sorrow
Feature film · 1366 in Soureh · 1988 in Cinema Iranica
A screenplay shared by Rabihavi and director Shapur Gharib, about a marriage, separation and a child displaced by war.
- Writers
- Ghazi Rabihavi, Shapur Gharib
- Director
- Shapur Gharib
- Production company, Cinema Iranica record
- Kargah-e Film-e Andishe
Hasrat-e Didar
Feature film · 1373 (1994–95) · recorded production year
A wartime search for a medical student, with a writing credit for Rabihavi and direction by Moharram Zeynalzadeh.
- Writer
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Director
- Moharram Zeynalzadeh
Ey Iran
Feature film · 1368 (1989–90) · recorded production year
Rabihavi worked as an assistant director on Nasser Taghvai’s film, set amid the upheaval of the revolution.
- Director and writer
- Nasser Taghvai
- Assistant director
- Ghazi Rabihavi
The Oak Tree
Short fiction film · 2017 / 2018 · differing production and festival records
A cane maker returns for a branch and finds that the tree has become a shrine: a film directed by Ethan Jahan, with Rabihavi’s screenplay.
- Director
- Ethan Jahan
- Screenplay
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Producers, Beverly Hills record
- Malek Hosni, Joelle Manih
- Cinematography, Zurich programme
- Yiannis Manolopoulos
- Music, Zurich programme
- Benjamin Ellin
- Music, UK Film Review credit
- Louai Alhenawi, Benjamin Ellin
- Cast, UK Film Review credit
- Antoine Balabane, Maroun Cherfane, Yann Delage, Mohammad Karra, Paul Sleiman, Tarek Yaacoub
- Editing, Zurich programme
- Malek Hosni
Loophole
Short fiction film · 2021 · production-collaborator record
A prisoner’s interrogation turns into an attempt to manufacture his confession, directed by Ethan Jahan from a concept supplied by Rabihavi.
- Director
- Ethan Jahan
- Writer, UK Film Review credit
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Cast, UK Film Review credit
- Mamad Heidari, Amir Hosseini, Alex Moradi
- Sound design
- Rob Szeliga, John Cohen
- Music editor
- Rob Szeliga
Ceasefire
Three-episode short-film project · 14 April 2022 · announced screening, production date unconfirmed
Three episodes approach war, religious power and violence against women, announced for a Lecce screening in 2022.
- Director, screening announcement
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Named collaborators, specific roles unstated
- Manoocher Deghati, Kaveh Golestan
Fairy Lights
Short film / story adaptation · 12 June 2024 · announced screening, production date unconfirmed
A collaboration filmed by Kaveh Golestan and realised with Rabihavi, connected to a story in the Italian Four Seasons book.
- Filmed by, organiser’s wording
- Kaveh Golestan
- Realised with, organiser’s wording
- Ghazi Rabihavi
Motherly
Video art / adapted theatre text · Published by 3 May 2020 · author-interview evidence
A mother remembers a nurse who dies after helping an injured protester: a theatre text transformed into video art during lockdown.
- Text and adaptation
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Text read by
- Sousan Farrokhnia
- Editing, image development and production collaboration
- Ethan Jahan
Ghazi Rabihavi: A Theatre of Truth
Documentary portrait · 2013 filmmaker · 2014 Solent/Westminster · 2016 UAL records
David Alamouti’s documentary about Rabihavi’s writing and theatre, commissioned and broadcast by the BBC World Service.
- Filmmaker / repository creator
- David Alamouti
- Documentary subject
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Commissioning and broadcast, source descriptions
- BBC World Service