Mahnaz Afshar
Mahnaz Afshar ( fa, مهناز افشار; born June 10, 1977) is an Iranian actress. She gained wide recognition in the record-breaking film ''Cease Fire'' (2006). She has received various accolades, including a Crystal Cymorgh, two Hafez Awards and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award. Life and career Afshar was born in Tehran, Iran. She graduated in natural science in high school. After graduation, one of her relatives who was the Theater Affairs Assistant in "Soureh" college introduced her to "Hannaneh" Art institute. Having studied video editions in the following years, she participated in the assembly job of "Ketāb-e Avval as a Golddigger" training materials, directed by Dariush Mehrjui. Later on, she was invited by Shamsi Fazlollahi to act in a TV series called Gomshodeh (Lost) directed by Masoud Navaii, making her first official play in the TV industry. Her professional career continued by acting in a movie called "Doostam" (Friends) directed by Abdol ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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37th Fajr Film Festival
The 37th Fajr Film Festival ( fa, سی و هفتمین جشنواره فیلم فجر) held from 1 to 11 February 2019 in Tehran, Iran. The nominees for the 37th Fajr Film Festival were announced on February 10, 2019, at a press conference. Jury Main Competition * Mohammad Ehsani * Mohammad Ali Bashe Ahangar * Mohammad Bozorgnia * Mehrzad Danesh * Pouran Derakhshandeh * Rima Raminfar * Mahmoud Kalari First Look, Short Film, Documentary * Mohammad Afarideh * Habib Ahmadzadeh * Aida Panahandeh * Saeed Soheili * Maziar Miri Winners and nominees Main Competition First Look Advertising Competition Films with multiple wins Films with multiple nominations Films Main Competition First Look Animation Documentary Short Film References External links 37th Fajr Film Festivalat IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Men At Work (2006 Film)
''Men at Work'' ( fa, کارگران مشغول کارند, Kargarān Mashghoul-e Kār-and) is a 2006 Iranian comedy written and directed by Mani Haghighi. It was awarded best film in 10th Dhaka International Film Festival. Plot Four men on a skiing trip encounter a tall boulder standing precariously near a cliff. The men resolve to push it over but find the task to be more difficult than anticipated. Over the course of a day the men unbury the rock, culminating in the boulder falling unnoticed while the men argue about whether to continue. Cast *Mahnaz Afshar as Sahar *Ahmad Hamed as Mammad *Mahmoud Kalari as Mohsen *Reza Kianian as Jalil * Fatemah Motamed Aria as Mina *Atila Pesyani as Morteza *Omid Roohani as Nader *Rana Azadivar Rana Azadivar ( fa, رعنا آزادیور; born April 6, 1983) is an Iranian actress. She is best known for her role as Faezeh in ''The Lizard'' (2004). Azadivar gained wide recognition after portraying the leading role of Samira in the wide ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maziar Miri
Maziar Miri (born 1974 in Tehran) is an Iranian filmmaker. Maziar Miri graduated in editing, and started his career with making documentaries about Iran. He made his first short film in 1996, and worked for several years in the editing department of Iranian TV, channel 2. He made his debut feature film in 2000 titled The Unfinished Piece that won him several international awards but the movie was never allowed to release in Iran because of its topic about women being banned from singing in Iran. He directed a documentary series titled Red Migration that lasted from 2002 to 2004. His second feature film, '' Gradually'', was selected to be screened in 2006-Berlin film festival for the programme section. Reward of Silence is his third film with a different anti-war view at Iran -Iraq war. The Book of Law is the fourth film made by Miri on the topic of wrong customs and conventions in Iranian culture which was banned immediately for 2 years and was allowed neither to attend intern ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Felicity Land
''Felicity Land'' ( fa, سعادت آباد ''Saadat Abad'') is a 2011 Iranian drama film directed by Maziar Miri. Cast * Hamed Behdad as Mohsen * Leila Hatami as Yasi * Mahnaz Afshar as Laleh * Hossein Yari as Bahram * Amir Aghaei Amir Aghaei ( fa, امیر آقایی, born August 1, 1975) is an Iranian actor and author. Career Aghaei made his cinematic debut by performing in Ebrahim Hatami-Kia's ‘Low Heights’ (2001). Among his movies are ‘The Second Woman’ (2007 ... as Ali * Hengameh Ghaziani as Tahmine * Mina Sadati as Mina References External links * Official Website 2011 films 2011 drama films Iranian drama films 2010s Persian-language films {{2010s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rambod Javan
Rambod Javan ( fa, رامبد جوان; born on 22 December 1971 in Tehran) is an Iranian actor, director, TV host and the author of many screenplays. Rambod Javan has made and directed a locally famous TV program, Khandevane. Khandevane has so far had 8 successful seasons. Career Javan began stage acting in 1991. Three years later, he came into the spotlight with a short role in ''The Spouses'' (1995) series and found fame after appearing in the series ''The Green House'' (1995). He is more known as a comedic actor. In 2002, he directed his first series, ''Lost'', which was broadcast during the fasting month of Ramadan and was well received by both viewers and critics. Rambod made his film-directing debut with ''Spaghetti in 8 minutes'' (2005) and received a Fajr International Film Festival Phoenix for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for ''Sinners'' (2012). The diverse roles he took on in ''Mummy 3'' (1999) and ''A Place of Love'' (2000) established him as a versatile act ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Farzad Motamen
Farzad Motamen ( fa, فرزاد مؤتمن; born 9 August 1957), is an Iranian film director. Early life and background Farzad Mo'temman spent his childhood and teenage in south of Iran and, after graduating from high school, went to the United States to study. In 1979, he left school in the field of cinema and returned to Iran. After that, Motemn was active in photography, filming Cinematography (from ancient Greek κίνημα, ''kìnema'' "movement" and γράφειν, ''gràphein'' "to write") is the art of Film, motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Cinematographers use a lens (o ..., and documenting. He has also been teaching at Sooreh University and Pars University since 1999 besides making films. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Motamen, Farzad Soore University faculty 1957 births Living people Iranian film directors ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami ( fa, عباس کیارستمی ; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including short film, shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the ''Koker trilogy, Koker'' Koker trilogy, trilogy (1987–1994), ''Close-Up (1990 film), Close-Up'' (1990), ''The Wind Will Carry Us'' (1999), and ''Taste of Cherry'' (1997), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival that year. In later works, ''Certified Copy (film), Certified Copy'' (2010) and ''Like Someone in Love (film), Like Someone in Love'' (2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively. His films ''Where Is the Friend's House?, Where Is the Friend's Home?'' (1987), ''Close-Up'', and ''The Wind Will Carry Us'' were ranked among the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shirin (film)
''Shirin'' () is a 2008 film directed by Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. The film is considered by some critics as a notable twist in the artistic career of Kiarostami. The film features close-ups of many notable Iranian actresses and French actress Juliette Binoche as they watch a film based on a part mythological Persian romance tale of Khosrow and Shirin, with themes of female self-sacrifice. The film has been described as "a compelling exploration of the relationship between image, sound and female spectatorship." The film depicts the audience's emotional involvement with the story. The story is read between the tragic and kitsch by a cast of narrators led by Manoucher Esmaieli and is accompanied by a historical "film score" by Morteza Hananeh and Hossein Dehlavi. The film's production is replete with curious anecdotes. According to some reports, the women were filmed individually in Kiarostami's living room, with the director asking them to cast their gaze at a mere serie ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ebrahim Hatamikia
Ibrahim (also spelled Ibraheem) ( ar, إبراهيم, ) is the Arabic name of the prophet and patriarch Abraham and one of Allah's messengers in the Quran. It is a common first name and surname among Muslims and Arab Christians, a cognate of the name Abraham or Avram in Judaism and Christianity in the Middle East. In the Levant and Maghreb, Brahim and Barhoum are common diminutives for the first name Ibrahim. Given name *Ibrahim ibn Muhammad (died 632), was the third son of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. *Ibrahim (died 750), the Umayyad caliph and a son of Caliph al-Walid I *Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi (779–839) was an Abbasid prince, singer, composer and poet. He was the son of the third Abbasid caliph Al-Mahdi. *Ibrahim ibn Salih (died 792) Abbasid governor of various provinces in Syria and Egypt in the late eighth century. * Ibrahim ibn Jaʿfar or Al-Muttaqi (died 968), Caliph of Baghdad during Later Abbasid period *Ibrahim ibn Jaʿfar al-Muqtadir, was the Abbasid prince and so ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Invitation (Davat) (2008 Film)
''Invitation'' ( fa, دعوت, Davat) is a 2008 Iranian drama film directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Chista Yasrebi. It is a poly-layered narrative, with many celebrities in the cast. Synopsis A number of different families face a similar crisis and they react according to their specific points of view. It is a Persian drama film about several couples realizing that they are going to have a baby, and each of these couples' lives play out in different episodes through the film. The film revolves around the theme of child abortion and its main message can be interpreted as "a child who is invited to come to this world should not be aborted" even if it is from a 60 year old, widow or a concubine who likes her job more than her child, or a wandering woman in a city that is distancing herself from her plumper husband. One critic described it as "a movie about abortions in which no abortions happen". This episode of the film which about two universi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Masoud Kimiai
Masoud Kimiai (or Masoud Kimiaei, fa, مسعود کیمیایی, born 29 July 1941) is an Iranian director, screenwriter and producer. Biography Kimiai started his career as an assistant director and made his debut, ''Come Stranger'', in 1968. With his second film, '' Qeysar'' (1969), he and Dariush Mehrjui with The film The Cow, caused a historical change in Iranian film industry. But Dariush Mehrjui's film with more artistic values has sustained its level of greatness through history of Iranian cinema. Qeysar became a great success at the box office and opened the way for young, talented filmmakers who never had a chance in the industry before. His films deal with people at the margin of the society with his anti-hero characters that die at the end. Many directors of commercial films imitated his ''Kaiser/ Qeysar'' for about 6 years, but in the last decade he focuses on young antagonists. He usually writes his screenplays, using slang dialogues based on ordinary tradition ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sirus Alvand
Sirus Alvand (Persian: سیروس الوند; born January 31, 1951), also spelled Cyrous Alvand, is an Iranian director and screenwriter who was born in 1951 in Tehran, Iran. He began his career as film critic and screenwriter and directed his debut film ''Sanjar'' in 1971. He is among filmmakers of pre-Revolution era who are still working. Some of his films were among box office hits. In 1993, he won a Crystal Simorgh The Crystal Simorgh ( fa, سیمرغ بلورین) is an award given by Fajr International Film Festival Iran's annual Fajr International Film Festival ( fa, جشنواره بینالمللی فیلم فجر), or Fajr Film Festival (litt ... for best director in the 11th Fajr International Film Festival. Films * ''Outcry under the Water'', 1977 * ''Stemming from Blood'', 1983 * ''Cargo'', 1987 * ''Once and for All'', 1992 * ''The Face'', 1995 * ''The Corrupted Hands'', 1999 * ''The Intruder'', 2001 * ''Porteghal Khoni'', 2010 References ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |