Kiumars Pourahmad ( fa, کیومرث پوراحمد, born 16 December 1949 in Najaf Abad,

Isfahan Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian Empire, middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Regio ...

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 ...

) is an Iranian

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and

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Career

Pourahmad started his career as a film critic and assistant director in a TV series in early 1970s. He made his directorial debut, ''Tatureh'' in 1983 after making some short films. Children and young adults with their problems are the central characters in most of his films. Recently, Pourahmad has shown a tendency toward mass audience and box office and his latest film, ''The Yalda Night'', was a self-expression. Pourahmad recently published his autobiography, ''Unfinished Childhood''.

Filmography

Cinema

* ''Tatoureh'', 1984 * ''Bibi Chelchele'', 1984 * ''Goyar'', 1987 * ''The Harbour'', 1988 * ''Silent Hunt'', 1989 * ''The Shame'' 1992 * ''The Morning After'', 1992 * ''Bread and Poem'', 1993 * ''For the Sake of Haniyeh'' 1994 * '' Khaharan-e-gharib'', 1995 * '' Yalda Night'', 2001 * '' Gol-e Yakh'', 2005 * ''Noke Borj'', 2005 * ''

The Night Bus ''The Night Bus'' ( fa, اتوبوس شب; Transliteration: ''Otobus-e Shab'') is a 2007 Iranian film directed by Kiumars Pourahmad. The film, which is in sharp monochrome, relates the story of a twenty-four-hour-long journey of two young Iranian ...

'', 2007 * ''Where Are My Shoes?'', 2016 * ''

Blade and Termeh ''Blade and Termeh'' ( fa, تیغ و ترمه, italic=yes) is a 2019 Iranian film written and directed by Kiumars Pourahmad. The film premiered at the 37th Fajr Film Festival. Storyline ''Termeh'' ( Diba Zahedi) is a young girl who lost her fa ...

'' 2019 * ''

The Night Guardian ''The Night Guardian'' (Persian: نگهبان شب, romanized: ''Negahban-e Shab'') is a 2022 Iranian drama film directed and produced by Reza Mirkarimi and written by Mirkarimi and Mohammad Davoudi. The film screened for the first time at the 4 ...

'' 2022

TV

* ''

The Tales of Majid ''Majid's Tales'' or ''The Tales of Majid'' ( fa, قصه‌های مجید, italic=yes) is a collection of short stories by Iranian author Houshang Moradi Kermani. Many years before it became a book, it was a radio program script (1974). In 1985 ...

'', 1990 * '' Sarenakh'', 1997 * ''Parantez Baz'', 2010

References

External links

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Photograph of Kiumars Pourahmad, Āftāb, Friday 9 February 2007
Iranian film directors Iranian screenwriters Iranian film editors People from Najafabad 1949 births Living people Crystal Simorgh for Best Director winners {{Iran-film-director-stub