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Negar Javaherian
Negar Javaherian (; born January 12, 1983) is an Iranian actress. She is best known for her acting in '' Gold and Copper'' (2010), '' Here Without Me'' (2011), ''A Cube of Sug''ar (2011) and '' The Painting Pool'' (2013). She has received various accolades, including a Crystal Simorgh, two Iran Cinema Celebration Awards and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award, in addition to nominations for two Hafez Awards. Early Life Negar Javaherian was born on January 12, 1983, in Tehran. She was one of the candidates for the lead role in ''I, Taraneh, Am 15'' (2001), which went to Taraneh Alidoosti, but she played a minor role in the film. She won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actress at the 28th Fajr Film Festival for her role in ''Gold and Copper''. She also received the Best Actress award at the 14th House of Cinema Celebration for ''Gold and Copper''. Additionally, she dubbed Kristen Stewart’s voice in the Persian version of the film '' Camp X-Ray'' (2014). Pers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
37th Fajr Film Festival
The 37th Fajr Film Festival () was 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 the press conference. 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 Festival at IMDb {{Fajr International Film Festival Fajr International Film Festival ceremonies Film festivals in Tehran 2019 in Iran 2019 film festivals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
The Book Of Law (film)
''The Book of Law'' (; , transliteration: Ketabe ghanoun) is a 2009 Drama, Comedy, Romance Iranian film directed by Maziar Miri, written by Mohammad Rahmanian, and produced by Mohsen AliAkbari. The film is about a Lebanese woman and convert to Islam struggling with the contrast between the behaviour of Iranian Muslims and the principles of Islamic religion. The film stars Parviz Parastui and Darine Hamze. Plot Engineer Rahman Tavana, a government employee, falls in love with a Christian girl, Juliet Khamse, while working in an international mission. She converts to Islam, changes her name to Ameneh, and moves to Iran with Rahman. Once in Iran she finds that she cannot accept what she sees as contradictions between the actions of Iranian Muslims, including her husband and his family, and the teachings of the Qu'ran, and eventually decides to return to the Lebanon, where she takes a job as a teacher for refugees. cast * Parviz Parastui as Rahman * Darine Hamze as Ameneh * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami ( ; 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 (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 House?'' (1987), ''Close-Up'', and ''The Wind Will Carry Us'' were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture. ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirin (film)
''Shirin'' () is a 2008 Iranian drama film directed by 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 the 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] |
Behnam Behzadi
Behnam Behzadi (Persian: بهنام بهزادی, ''Behˈnām Behzādī,'' born July 24, 1972) is an Iranian director, screenwriter, editor and produce He’s one of the internationally acclaimed Iranian directors and his films have received multiple awards from national and international film festivals. His latest feature film ''Inversion'' appeared in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes Film Festival official selection. This film also received the Best Picture award at MedFilm Festival, Med Film Festival in Italy and the Best Picture and Best Screenplay awards at Jaipur International Film Festival in India. He has also won the Best Director award for ''We Only Live Twice (Before The Burial)'' from Granada film festival in Spain and received the Special Jury Prize for ''Bending The Rules'' at International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival in Germany and Tokyo International Film Festival. He has also received the Audience Choice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahram Tavakoli (film Director)
Bahram Tavakoli (born 1976) is an Iranian peoples, Iranian film director and screenwriter. He won a Crystal Simorgh award for his debut film ''Barefoot in Heaven'' (2007). Since then, he has released several films that have met with critical acclaim. Filmography Film Home Video Television series References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tavakoli, Bahram category:Iranian film directors 1976 births Living people Crystal Simorgh for Best Director winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farzad Motamen
Farzad Motamen (; 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 () is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Cinematographers use a lens to focus reflected light from objects into a real image that is transferred to some image sensor or light-s ..., 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 Academic staff of Soore University 1957 births Living people Iranian film directors Mass media people from Tehran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasul Sadr Ameli
Rasoul Sadr Ameli or Rasul Sadrameli (; born 1954 in Isfahan) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, journalist and film producer. The Managing Director of MILAD FILM (established in 1979, the first company in the distribution and production of Iranian films after the revolution In political science, a revolution (, 'a turn around') is a rapid, fundamental transformation of a society's class, state, ethnic or religious structures. According to sociologist Jack Goldstone, all revolutions contain "a common set of elements ...) began his journalism career when he was just 17. He collaborated with '' Ettela'at'' Newspaper as a reporter, story writer and editor of Incident page and then as the Editor of Parliamentary Service. He studied sociology at Paul Valéry University of Montpellier in France. He began his professional activities in the Cinema by producing a film entitled Blood Raining in 1981. This film is the first cinematic project after the revolution. Filmography (as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm Taraneh, 15
''I'm Taraneh, 15'' () is a 2002 Iranian film directed by Rasul Sadrameli. The film was selected as the Iranian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 75th Academy Awards The 75th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) took place on March 23, 2003, at the Dolby Theatre, Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AM ..., but it did not make the final shortlist. Plot Fifteen-year-old Taraneh, whose widowed father is in jail, refuses the unwanted attentions of carpet salesman Amir - until Amir's mother, at the insistence of his son, talks Taraneh into accepting Amir's marriage proposal. However, instead of a typical marriage, the union is in form of a temporary religious ceremony or " sigheh." Within four months the couple realize that they are incompatible, they divorce and Amir returns to Germany. When Taraneh discovers that she is pregnant she decides against all advi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodreads
Goodreads is an American social cataloging website and a subsidiary of Amazon that allows individuals to search its database of books, annotations, quotes, and reviews. Users can sign up and register books to generate library catalogs and reading lists. They can also create their own groups of book suggestions, surveys, polls, blogs, and discussions. The website's offices are located in San Francisco. Goodreads was founded in December 2006 and launched in January 2007 by Otis Chandler and Elizabeth Khuri Chandler. In December 2007, the site had 650,000 members and 10,000,000 books had been added. By July 2012, the site reported 10 million members, 20 million monthly visits, and thirty employees. On March 28, 2013, Amazon announced its acquisition of Goodreads, and by July 23, 2013, Goodreads announced their user base had grown to 20 million members. By September 2023, the site had more than 150 million members. History Founders Goodreads founders Otis Chandler and Elizabeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
