Fariborz Kamkari( fa, فریبرز کامکاری) is a

Kurd ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian peoples, Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Ir ...

ish

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

ian

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and producer. Kamkari was born in 1971 in Iran, and studied cinema and

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Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

. He has written several

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s for other Iranian directors, and has produced and directed some short

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s. In 2002, he wrote and directed his first feature film, ''Black Tape'' (edited by Amin Aslani. The film won the top jury prize at Cinequest Film Festival, and was in competition at several other festivals, including the Venice Film Festival. In 2005, Kamkari wrote and directed ''The Forbidden Chapter'', an

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co-production.

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* 1971 births Living people Iranian film directors Italian people of Iranian descent Italian Muslims {{Iran-film-director-stub