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Saeed Hanaei
Saeed Hanaei or Said Hanai ( fa, سعید حنایی; 1962 – April 8, 2002) was an Iranian serial killer. Personal life Hanaei was born in 1962. He had a dysfunctional relationship with his mother, who violently abused him; he later claimed that she frequently scratched him with her fingernails hard enough to draw blood, and attempted to bite off pieces of his flesh. At the time of his murders, he was married and had three children. He was a construction worker by profession, and served as a volunteer in the Iran-Iraq war. Crimes Hanaei targeted female prostitutes in the eastern city of Mashhad. He often targeted drug addiction, drug addicts. The murders were referred to as the "spider killings" by the Iranian press because Hanaei lured the women to his home and strangled them and dumped their bodies. He killed 16 women between August 2000 and July 2001, when he was apprehended by the police. The murders were the following: * On August 7, 2000, Afsaneh Karimpour, a 30-yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mashhad
Mashhad ( fa, مشهد, Mašhad ), also spelled Mashad, is the List of Iranian cities by population, second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. It serves as the capital of Razavi Khorasan Province and has a population of 3,001,184 (2016 census), which includes the areas of Mashhad Taman and Torqabeh. The city has been governed by different ethnic groups over the course of its history. Mashhad was once a major oasis along the ancient Silk Road connecting with Merv to the east. It enjoyed relative prosperity in the Mongol period. The city is named after the shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Shia Imam, who was buried in a village in Khorasan Province, Khorasan which afterward gained the name, meaning the "place of Martyr, martyrdom". Every year, millions of pilgrims visit the Imam Reza shrine. The Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid is also buried within the same shrine. Mashhad is also known colloq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanging
Hanging is the suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. Hanging as method of execution is unknown, as method of suicide from 1325. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain "hanging". Hanging has been a common method of capital punishment since medieval times, and is the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. The first known account of execution by hanging was in Homer's ''Odyssey'' (Book XXII). In this specialised meaning of the common word ''hang'', the past and past participle is ''hanged'' instead of ''hung''. Hanging is a common method of suicide in which a person applies a ligature to the neck and brings about unconsciousness and then death by suspension or partial suspension. Methods of judicial hanging T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Cannes Film Festival
The 75th annual Cannes Film Festival is an upcoming film festival scheduled to take place from 17 to 28 May 2022. The festival will see a tribute to actor Tom Cruise, whose film '' Top Gun: Maverick'' is due to premiere at the festival. The official poster for the festival was designed as an homage to ''The Truman Show'' (1998). Juries The following juries were named for the festival. Main competition * Vincent Lindon, French actor, Jury President * Asghar Farhadi, Iranian director, screenwriter and producer * Rebecca Hall, English-American actress, producer, director and screenwriter * Ladj Ly, French director, screenwriter, actor and producer * Jeff Nichols, American director and screenwriter * Deepika Padukone, Indian actress * Noomi Rapace, Swedish actress * Joachim Trier, Norwegian director and screenwriter * Jasmine Trinca, Italian actress and director Un Certain Regard * Valeria Golino, Italian actress, director and producer, Jury President * Benjamin Biolay, French si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan
Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan River. Jordan is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south and east, Iraq to the northeast, Syria to the north, and the Palestinian West Bank, Israel, and the Dead Sea to the west. It has a coastline in its southwest on the Gulf of Aqaba's Red Sea, which separates Jordan from Egypt. Amman is Jordan's capital and largest city, as well as its economic, political, and cultural centre. Modern-day Jordan has been inhabited by humans since the Paleolithic period. Three stable kingdoms emerged there at the end of the Bronze Age: Ammon, Moab and Edom. In the third century BC, the Arab Nabataeans established their Kingdom with Petra as the capital. Later rulers of the Transjordan region include the Assyrian, Babylonian, Roman, Byzantine, Rashidun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sight & Sound
''Sight and Sound'' (also spelled ''Sight & Sound'') is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). It conducts the well-known, once-a-decade ''Sight and Sound'' Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time, ongoing since 1952. History and content ''Sight and Sound'' was first published in Spring 1932 as "A quarterly review of modern aids to learning published under the auspices of the British Institute of Adult Education". In 1934 management of the magazine was handed to the nascent British Film Institute (BFI), which still publishes the magazine today. ''Sight and Sound'' was published quarterly for most of its history until the early 1990s, apart from a brief run as a monthly publication in the early 1950s, but in 1991 it merged with another BFI publication, the ''Monthly Film Bulletin'', and started to appear monthly. In 1949, Gavin Lambert, co-founder of film journal ''Sequence'', was hired as the editor, and also brought with him ''Sequence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Abbasi (director)
Ali Abbasi ( fa, علی عباسی, born 1981) is an Iranian filmmaker. He is best known for his films '' Shelley'' (2016), ''Border'' (2018), and ''Holy Spider'' (2022). Abbasi also directed the last two episodes of the first season of the series ''The Last of Us''. He has received various accolades, including an Un Certain Regard award, four Robert Awards, and a German Film Award, in addition to nominations for seven European Film Awards, a Goya Award, and two Guldbagge Awards. Early life Abbasi attended Tehran Polytechnic until 2002, when he emigrated to Sweden to study architecture at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. After earning his bachelor of arts in 2007, he enrolled at the National Film School of Denmark, earning a degree in 2011 with the short film ''M for Markus''. Abbasi lives in Copenhagen and continues to hold an Iranian passport. Career 2018: ''Border'' In 2018, Abbasi premiered his second film, ''Border''. It won the Un Certain Regard award a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehdi Bajestani
Mehdi Bajestani ( fa, مهدی بجستانی; born January 12, 1975) is an Iranian actor. He is best known for his performance as Saeed Hanaee in the crime thriller '' Holy Spider'' (2022). Career He is member of the Naqshineh Theatre group. Filmography Film * ''Thirteen'' (2003) short film, directed by Vahid Rahbani * ''There Are Things You Don't Know'' (2010), directed by Fardin Saheb Zamani * ''Resident of the Middle Floor'' (2014), directed by Shahab Hosseini * ''Sweet Taste of Imagination'' (2015), directed by Kamal Tabrizi * ''Mahrokh's House'' (2021), directed by Shahram Ebrahimi * '' Holy Spider'' (2022), directed by Ali Abbasi Television * ''Whisper'' (2018) tv series, directed by Ebrahim Sheibani Theatre *'' The Caucasian Chalk Circle'', 1997, by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Hamid Samandarian, Tehran. * '' Waiting for Godot'' (1998), by Samuel Beckett, directed by Vahid Rahbani, Tehran and Paris. * ''Rhinoceros'' (2001), by Eugène Ionesco, directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Zahra Amir Ebrahimi ( fa, زهرا اميرابراهيمی; born July 9, 1981) known professionally as Zar Amir Ebrahimi (), is an Iranian-French actress, producer and director. She is best known for her performance as journalist Arezoo Rahimi in the crime thriller ''Holy Spider'' (2022), for which she won the Best Actress award at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. She is also a producer and host for the BBC and oversees a cultural program for the Persian branch of BBC World. In 2022, Amir Ebrahimi appeared on BBC's '' 100 Women'' list as one of the world's inspiring and influential women of the year. Early life Zahra Amir Ebrahimi was born on July 9, 1981 in Tehran, Iran. She studied theater in Azad University and started her professional career by making short films. She speaks Persian, Pashto, English and French fluently, and knows basic Arabic, German and Italian. Career 1999–2004: Career beginnings Amir Ebrahimi started her career by directing her first short film, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Spider
''Holy Spider'' ( fa, عنکبوت مقدس, Ankabut-e moqaddas) is a 2022 Persian-language crime thriller film directed by Ali Abbasi, starring Mehdi Bajestani and Zar Amir Ebrahimi. Based on the true story of Saeed Hanaei, a serial killer who targeted street prostitutes and killed 16 women from 2000 to 2001 in Mashhad, Iran, the film depicts a fictional female journalist investigating a serial killer. ''Holy Spider'' was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival in May 2022, where Ebrahimi won the Best Actress Award for her performance. It was chosen as the Danish entry for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, and made the December shortlist. Plot Journalist Arezoo Rahimi arrives in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad from Tehran to investigate a series of murders of local street prostitutes. The killings follow a pattern, with women picked up from area roundabouts by a man on a motorcycle, taken elsewhere, and strangled with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sareh Bayat
Sareh Bayat ( fa, ساره بیات; born 6 October 1979) is an Iranian actress. She is best known for her role as Razieh in the Academy Award-winning ''A Separation'' (2011), for which she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival. Filmography Film Web Television Awards *SilverBear for Best Actress in 61st Berlin Film Festival, Shared with other actresses of ''A Separation'' *Best actress in a supporting role in 29th Fajr International Film Festival for ''A Separation'' *Supporting Actress of the Year in 32nd London Critics Circle Film Awards for ''A Separation'' *Best Actress in Palm Springs International Film Festival, 2011 for ''A Separation'' - Shared with Leila Hatami Leila Hatami ( fa, لیلا حاتمی; born October 1, 1972) is an Iranian actress. She has received numerous accolades, including a Silver Bear, two Crystal Simorghs, two Hafez Awards, two Iran Cinema Celebration Awards and three Iran's Film ... and Sari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohsen Tanabandeh
Mohsen Tanabandeh ( fa, محسن تنابنده; born April 15, 1975) is an Iranian actor, director and screenwriter. In 2022, he won the Orizzonti Award for Best Actor at the 79th Venice International Film Festival for acting in ''World War III'' (2022). He has received various accolades, including three Crystal Simorgh and four Hafez Awards Hafez Awards is an annual awards ceremony which is held honoring cinematic achievements in Iranian cinema. The awards, first presented in 1997, are presented by Picture World Magazine (Aka. Donyaye Tassvir in Persian) which makes it to be known a .... Early life Tanabandeh has studied acting at University of Art and Architecture. He began theater acting in 1992 and appeared in his first cinematic movie in 2001. Filmography Film Web Television Awards and nominations References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tanabandeh, Mohsen 1975 births Iranian male film actors Iranian male stage actors Iranian male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebrahim Irajzad
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 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
