Ruz-e Vaqe'e (The Fateful Day) was adapted into a film in 1995 and another screenplay was adapted into a film named Fasl-e Panjom (The fifth season) in 1996, whilst he also made four of his finest films. He also edited Ebrahim Hatamikia's Borj-e Minu (Minoo Tower). 1990–present He married the actress and make-up artist Mozhdeh Shamsai in 1992. After Mosaferan, he failed to get a permit for the production of a number of screenplays. In 1995, he left Iran for Strasbourg at the invitation of the International Parliament of Writers. Soon however he returned and staged The Lady Aoi in Tehran. In 2001, he made his best-selling film Killing Mad Dogs, after which he managed to stage three plays as well before he left Iran for the United States. He left Iran in 2010 at the invitation of Stanford University, and has since been the Daryabari Visiting Professor of Iranian Studies, teaching courses in Persian theatre, cinema and mythology. There he has given workshops on the Shahnameh, the history of Iranian performing arts, Iranian as well as Semitic myths, etc. He has also staged several of his plays including his nine-hour Tarabnameh. Cinematic style He is known as the most intellectual and conspicuous "author" in Iranian cinema and theater. The main theme of his works is the history and "crisis of identity" which is related to Iranian cultural and mythical symbols and paradigms. He is considered as Iran's most prominent screenwriter in terms of dramatic integrity of his works, many of which have been made into films. Reception and criticism Critics have often praised Beyzai above all Persian filmmakers as well as playwrights. He was voted the best Persian filmmaker of all time in 2002, and his Bashu, the Little Stranger was voted the finest Persian film of all time. All the same, his formalism has occasionally raised criticism, even from himself. Ebrahim Golestan, who had previously made objections to Beyzai's style, praised him in a letter in 2017. Works Filmography (as director) Amū Sibilū (1969 - short) Safar (1970 - short - a.k.a. The Journey) Ragbār (1972 - a.k.a. Downpour) Qaribé va Meh (1974 - a.k.a. The Stranger and the Fog) Kalāq (1976 - a.k.a. The Crow or The Raven ) Charike-ye Tārā (1979 - a.k.a. Ballad of Tara) Marg-e Yazdgerd (1982 - a.k.a. Death of Yazdgerd) Bashu, the Little Stranger (1986 - a.k.a. Bashu - released 1989) Shāyad