Documentary film, 2027
It's a 90-minute observational documentary following an 89-year-old beekeeper in rural China who has sustained his family through traditional beekeeping since 1978. Filmed across four seasons between 2026 and 2027, the film observes his daily labour alongside the unwavering support of his daughter, as environmental pressures, industrialised beekeeping, and rapid development threaten a way of life rooted in care, patience, and deep knowledge of the natural world. Directed by Gaylan Nazhad and Ji Yang, Last Bee is an intimate portrait of resilience, ageing, and the quiet persistence of tradition in a changing society.
Filmed, 2026 - 2027
Location, China
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Grandpa Bee
Documentary film, 2026
GrandpaBee is documentary film following a Chinese inventor and educator in Shanghai who has transformed his passion for bees into a unique world of learning, innovation and environmental awareness. Set inside a public park in Shanghai, the film explores how “GrandpaBee” combines traditional beekeeping, educational programs for children, interactive museum spaces, and inventive honey-based products to reconnect people with nature in a rapidly modernising society. Through observations of bee life, public education, and the surprising intersection of nature and technology, the documentary offers a warm and visually rich portrait of one man’s belief that even the smallest creatures can inspire creativity, community and a different vision for the future.
Filmed, 2026
Location, China
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Fragments of China
Documentary film, 2024
A series of visual fragments drawn from everyday life. Each story offers a glimpse into individual experience, together forming a broader reflection on society, culture, and human connection.
Filmed, 2023 - 2024
Location, Shanghai-China
Documentary film, 2012
This documentary offers an intimate portrait of a remote village and its aging school near the Iraq–Iran border. Home to just over a hundred residents, the community endures daily life without electricity, gas, clean water, or proper roads. Dependent on rudimentary farming techniques and lacking government support, their resilience defines their survival.
Beyond observation, the project became a collaboration. Over two months, I trained a small group of villagers in the fundamentals of filmmaking, enabling them to take ownership of their story. Within six months, they completed the filming themselves, gaining experience both in front of and behind the camera. The result is not only a film about the village but also a film made by the village, a collective act of storytelling and self-representation.
Filmed, 2011
Location, Kurdistan-Iraq
Double Portrait Documentary film, 2009
A surrealist docudrama tracing the love of Mirela and Peter, a Romanian couple who wander in search of the landscapes where affection might endure. Mirela believes love can only survive in silence rooted in the shade of trees, in the grace of nature, and in the modest shelter of an old house. Peter, however, carries his places within him. His visions are born from poetry, where love takes shape not in geography but in imagination itself. For him, love resides in the body, his own, Mirela’s, or even in the living body of a tree.
Filmed, 2008
Location, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Single Portrait Documentary film, 2009
Ethereal, poetic from the world of Tarkovsky. This portrait of a modern nomad is set in an imaginary space where memories, thoughts and ideas are packed and unpacked like the suitcase. Sound, light and shadow are used to evoke a sense of changing time and space. the voice whispers as if the subject of the portrait, a photographer is not sure about sharing or revealing the depths of his world.
Screened,
London National Portrait Gallery | Liverpool Fact Cinema | Manchester Fact Cinema | Nottingham New Arts Exchange | Nottingham Broadway Cinema | London Waterman Cinema| Northampton Nanoplex
Filmed, 2009
Location, United Kingdom
Double Portrait Documentary film, 2009
A double portraits film of a married couple who did not believe in marriage way back in 1988, however due to exceptional circumstances they were forced to marry in order to keep one of them in the country.
Screened,
London National Portrait Gallery | Liverpool Fact Cinema | Manchester Fact Cinema | Nottingham New Arts Exchange | Nottingham Broadway Cinema | London Waterman Cinema| Northampton Nanoplex
Filmed, 2009
Location, Birmingham, United Kingdom