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Peyman Yazdanian
Peyman Yazdanian ( fa, پیمان یزدانیان , born in 1968) is an Iranian pianist and music composer. He has written over forty pieces for solo piano and has composed for both national and foreign feature films. He wrote original soundtracks for plays and multimedia. Early life He was trained by pianist Farman Behboud. He attended the courses of Gerhard Geretschlaeger in Vienna and Ginette Gaubert in Marseille. In conducting, he studied under Iradj Sahbai in Strasbourg. Career As a pianist-interpreter, he won first prize in the competition of excellence at the Musical Confederation of France in 2000. He is recognized for his interpretations of works by Rachmaninov, Liszt, Beethoven, and Chopin. In 1998, he began writing film music for the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's ''The Wind Will Carry Us''. Peyman Yazdanian composed the music for ''Summer Palace'' by Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye, a film selected for the Cannes Film Festival in 2006. He composes for Iranian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iranian Peoples
The Iranian peoples or Iranic peoples are a diverse grouping of Indo-European peoples who are identified by their usage of the Iranian languages and other cultural similarities. The Proto-Iranians are believed to have emerged as a separate branch of the Indo-Iranians in Central Asia around the mid-2nd millennium BC. At their peak of expansion in the mid-1st millennium BC, the territory of the Iranian peoples stretched across the entire Eurasian Steppe, from the Great Hungarian Plain in the west to the Ordos Plateau in the east and the Iranian Plateau in the south.: "From the first millennium b.c., we have abundant historical, archaeological and linguistic sources for the location of the territory inhabited by the Iranian peoples. In this period the territory of the northern Iranians, they being equestrian nomads, extended over the whole zone of the steppes and the wooded steppes and even the semi-deserts from the Great Hungarian Plain to the Ordos in northern China." The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fireworks Wednesday
''Fireworks Wednesday'' ( fa, چهارشنبهسوری, italic=yes, ''Čahâršanbe-Suri'') is a 2006 Iranian drama film directed by Asghar Farhadi and co-written by Farhadi and Mani Haghighi. It stars Hedieh Tehrani, Taraneh Alidoosti, and Hamid Farokhnezhad. The film screened for the first time at the 24th Fajr Film Festival and received 9 nominations, 4 awards and a diploma honorary. Plot The film portrays the life of a turbulent couple, Mozhdeh and Morteza Samiei, as they prepare for a vacation to Dubai the morning after Chaharshanbe Suri, a festival held on the eve of Wednesday before Nowruz. Morteza hires a new maid Rouhi through an agency, a bride-soon-to-be, to help the couple clean their apartment, though Mozhdeh initially insists that she is not required. While she is doing her work, Rouhi learns piece by piece what is happening between the two: Mozhdeh suspects that Morteza is seeing their divorced neighbor, Simin, behind her back, after discovering Simin's phone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panâhi ( fa, جعفر پناهی, ; born 11 July 1960) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly associated with the Iranian New Wave film movement. After several years of making short films and working as an assistant director for fellow Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, Panahi achieved international recognition with his feature film debut, ''The White Balloon'' (1995). The film won the Caméra d'Or at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, the first major award an Iranian film won at Cannes. Panahi was quickly recognized as one of Iran's most influential filmmakers. His films were often banned in Iran, but he continued to receive international acclaim from film theorists and critics and won numerous awards, including the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival for '' The Mirror'' (1997), the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for '' The Circle'' (2000), and the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for '' Offside'' (2006). Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood And Gold
''Blood and Gold'' (2001) is a horror novel by American writer Anne Rice, the eighth book in her '' Vampire Chronicles'' series. Plot summary The book begins with an ancient vampire of Nordic descent awaking after being frozen in a block of ice for hundreds of years. The vampire, Thorne, meets Marius de Romanus and inquires about Marius' past. Marius then provides his life story. As a young Roman patrician, Marius was abducted by druids who were trying to find a replacement for their "god of the grove"—a vampire, kept locked inside a chamber underneath a tree, who took on the role of a god in a druidic religion. Marius does not want to receive the powers of the dying god, but is given them nonetheless. Unable to face a life imprisoned in a tree, Marius escapes from the druids (one of whom is Mael). He embarks on a trip to Egypt, where he learns of Akasha and Enkil, the Mother and Father or Those Who Must Be Kept—the progenitors of all vampire-kind. He takes them back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wind Carpet
''The Wind Carpet'' or Kaze no jûtan ( fa, فرش باد) is a 2003 Iranian drama film directed by Kamal Tabrizi. Plot A Japanese female designer a Carpet she wants to show at the Nakayama Carnival, Orders weavers in Isfahan to weave, but her death leaves the action unfinished. her husband and daughter go to Iran to finish the half-finished work and become the guests of a family in Isfahan... Cast * Reza Kianian * Rentarō Mikuni * Youki Kudoh * Hushang Harirchiyan * Shirin Bina * Miyu Yagyu * Maryam Boubani * Fereydoon Heydari * Mohammadreza Khorshidi * Reza Nabavi * Takaaki Enoki is a Japanese actor and artist from Isa District, Kagoshima. He is known for his role as private detective Mitsuhiko Asami in the ''Asami Mitsuhiko Series''. He attended Musashino Art University but left before graduating and joined the Shiki The ... * Yuri Masuda * Farboud Ahmadjoo * Fariba Kamran * Hossein Ghgiabi * Abbas Ahmadi Motlagh * Mehdi Tarokh References The Wind Carpeton Cp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamal Tabrizi
Kamal Tabrizi ( fa, کمال تبریزی, born 28 October 1959) is an Iranian film director. He was born in Tehran, with his parents having moved there from Tabriz. A newly released picture shows that he was as a photographer and reporter among the 1979 hostage takers at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Kamal Tabrizi graduated from Tehran University of Art at Faculty of Cinema and Theater. Biography After graduating from Cinema & TV from Art University in Tehran;He went to the war front of Iran-Iraq war (1981~1989) as a director and photographer and has made his first documentary on war ''Martyrs'' which won the best documentary award in Tashkent Film Festival. He taught Cinema and direction in Young Cinema Society and Film making Educational Center for some years and arranged many workshops on cinema. He made his first feature film ''Passage'' in 1988. Since then he has made more than 18 feature films, including two co-productions with Japan ("Wind Carpet" (2001) which was the bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maziar Bahari
Maziar Bahari ( fa, مازیار بهاری; born May 25, 1967) is an Iranian-Canadian journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist. He was a reporter for ''Newsweek'' from 1998 to 2011. Bahari was incarcerated by the Iranian government from June 21, 2009 to October 17, 2009, and has written a family memoir, '' Then They Came for Me'', a ''New York Times'' best seller. His memoir is the basis for Jon Stewart's 2014 film '' Rosewater''. Bahari later founded the IranWire citizen journalism news site, the freedom of expression campaign Journalism Is Not A Crime and the education and public art organizatioPaint the Change Family and education Bahari was born in Tehran, Imperial State of Iran, but moved to Pakistan in 1987 before he immigrated to Canada in 1988 to study communications. His family has been involved in dissident politics in Iran: his father was imprisoned by the Shah's regime in the 1950s, and his sister Maryam under the revolutionary government of Ayatollah Khomein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water And Fire (Iranian Film)
''Water and Fire'' (Persian: ''Ab va Atash'') is a 2001 film by the Iranian director Fereydoun Jeyrani. The film was scripted by Jeyrani and lensed by Mahmoud Kalari. It starred Leila Hatami, Parviz Parastui Parviz Parastui ( fa, پرویز پرستویی ; born 24 June 1955) is an Iranian actor. He has received various accolades, including four Crystal Simorgh for Best Actor–making him the only actor to have four wins in that category–four Hafez ... and Atila Pesiani in the principal roles. References {{reflist Persian-language films 2000 films 2000s crime drama films Iranian drama films Films about domestic violence Films directed by Fereydoun Jeyrani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,660 attending in 2016. It takes place each January in Park City, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah; and at the Sundance Resort (a ski resort near Provo, Utah), and acts as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature films and short films, and a group of out-of-competition sections, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Sundance Kids, From the Collection, Premieres, and Documentary Premieres. History 1978: Utah/US Film Festival Sundance began in Salt Lake City in August 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to attract more filmmakers to Utah. It was founded by Sterl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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