film directors
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, pro ...
representing various
genre
Genre () is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other for ...
s and periods of
Iranian cinema
The Cinema of Iran (Persian: سینمای ایران), also known as the Cinema of Persia, refers to the cinema and film industries in Iran which produce a variety of commercial films annually. Iranian art films have garnered international fame a ...
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Narges Abyar
Narges Abyar ( fa, نرگس آبیار, born 8 August 1970) is an Iranian film director, author and screenwriter, best known for directing '' Track 143'', ''Breath'', and ''When the Moon Was Full''. The film Track 143 is adapted from Abyar's novel ...
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Saber Abar
Saber Abar ( fa, صابر اَبَر; born June 8, 1984) is an Iranian actor, director and writer. He is best known for his performance in ''About Elly'' (2008), directed by Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Academy Award-winning ...
Mania Akbari
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Reza Allamehzadeh
Reza Allamehzadeh ( fa, رضا علامهزاده) is an Iranian-born Dutch filmmaker, film critic and writer who lives in the Netherlands. He is primarily known for his films about refugees, such as ''The Guests of Hotel Astoria'' (1988), and ...
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Cyrus Alvand
Sirus Alvand (Persian: سیروس الوند; born January 31, 1951), also spelled Cyrous Alvand, is an Iranian director and screenwriter who was born in 1951 in Tehran, Iran. He began his career as film critic and screenwriter and directed h ...
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Mohsen Amiryoussefi
Mohsen Amiryousefi ( fa, محسن امیریوسفی, born 1972) is an Iranian director and screenwriter. A graduate in mathematics from Isfahan University, he completed his first short film in 1997 based on a story by Franz Kafka
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Abolfazl Attar
''Mirza Abolfazl Attar. Z "Adin Attar"'' ( fa, ابوالفضل عطار ; born September 23, 1968) is an Iranian film director, actor, screenwriter and film editor.
Early life
Adin Attar was born in Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran and s ...
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Reza Attaran
Reza Attaran (Persian: رضا عطاران, born May 10, 1968) is an Iranian actor, director, screenwriter and singer. He has received various accolades, including three Crystal Cymorgh, five Hafez Awards
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Kianoush Ayari
Kianoush Ayari ( fa, کیانوش عیاری; born May 14, 1951) is an Iranian director and screenwriter. He is famous for his realistic style and unique stories like heart transplantation in his movie ''To Be or Not to Be'' (1998) or fate of a te ...
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Reza Badiyi
Reza Sayed Badiyi (also known as Reza Badiei; Persian: رضا بدیعی; April 17, 1930 – August 20, 2011) was an Iranian-born American film and television director. His credits also include developing the opening montages for '' Mission ...
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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 Ju ...
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Ramin Bahrani
Ramin Bahrani ( fa, رامین بحرانی; born March 20, 1975) is an American director and screenwriter. Film critic Roger Ebert ranked Bahrani's ''Chop Shop'' (2007) as the sixth-best film of the 2000s, calling him "the new director of the ...
Bahram Bayzai
Bahrām Beyzāêi (also spelt Beizāi, Beyzāêi, fa, بهرام بیضائی; born 26 December 1938) is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and '' ostād'' ("master") of Persian letters, arts and Iranian studies ...
Shiva Boloorian Shiva Boloorian (; born October 6, 1979) is an Iranian playwright, Actor, actress, and both a Film director, film and theatre director, as well as a television presenter.
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Shiva Boloorian has starred in 21 Movies, 29 TV-series and 32 theatre ...
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Henri Charr
Henri Charr, also credited as H. Charr, is an Assyrian filmmaker born in Iran and living in Southern California. He started in educational films and documentaries, then turned to mainstream cinema in genres including thrillers, drams, action-adve ...
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Hajir Darioush Hajir Darioush ( fa, هژیر داریوش , , Bandar Pahlavi, Iran – 2 October 1995, Blagnac, France) was an Iranian film maker, described by Javed Jabbar in 1982 as "the leader of the organised progressive Iranian cinema". He took his own li ...
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Masoud Dehnamaki
Masoud Dehnamaki ( fa, مسعود دهنمکی, born 1969 in Ahar, East Azerbaijan) is an Iranian conservative activist, filmmaker, and former journalist.
Early life
Dehnamaki says that he was a member of the army that liberated Khoramshahr in ...
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Pouran Derakhshandeh
Pourān Derakh'shandeh ( fa, پوران درخشنده) (born 27 March 1951 in Kermanshah, Iran) is an Iranian film director, producer, screen writer, and researcher.
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Derakh'shandeh graduated in film directing in 1975 from Advanced School ...
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Nader Ebrahimi
Nader Ebrahimi ( fa, نادر ابراهیمی; April 3, 1936 – June 5, 2008) was an Iranian writer, screenwriter, photographer, director, actor, songwriter, and an outstanding contemporary novelist.
Son to Ata-ol-molk Ebrahimi, who was a des ...
Matt Eskandari
Matt Eskandari is an Iranian-born American film director and screenwriter. His films include ''Victim'', ''The Gauntlet'', and ''12 Feet Deep''. He was also a contestant on the Fox Studios and Steven Spielberg filmmaker competition ''On the Lo ...
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Mitra Farahani
Mitra Farahani (in fa, میترا فراهانی; born 1975) is an Iranian filmmaker and painter who currently lives in Paris.
Biography
Mitra Farahani was born on January 27, 1975 in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran. Farahani has a degree in graphic ar ...
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Asghar Farhadi
Asghar Farhadi ( fa, اصغر فرهادی, ; born 7 May 1972)Soureh Movie Database
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Bahman Farmanara
Bahman Farmanara ( fa, بهمن فرمانآرا, Bahman Farmānārā; born 23 January 1942) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer.
Bahman Farmanara is the second son in a family of four brothers and one sister. The famil ...
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Mohammad Farokhmanesh Mohammad Farokhmanesh ( fa, محمد فرخمنش; born 1971 in Shiraz) is a Gerd Ruge-Prize winning Iranian film director, scriptwriter and producer, residing in Germany.
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Mohammad Farokhmanesh, born 1971 in Shiraz, (Iran) started makin ...
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Hamid Farrokhnezhad
Hamid Farrokhnezhad ( fa, حمید فرخنژاد ; born April 17, 1969) is an Iranian actor, writer and director. He has received various accolades, including four Crystal Simorgh (two for acting), two Hafez Awards, three Iran Cinema Celebra ...
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Forough Farrokhzad
Forugh Farrokhzad ( fa, فروغ فرخزاد; 28 December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast,* feminist author.Forugh Farrokhzad died at the age ...
Hassan Fathi
Hassan Fathi ( fa, حسن فتحی, born 2 September 1959) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He's one of the most well known and successful Iranian directors. Fathi is best known for his popular historical TV series.
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He holds ...
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Reza Fazeli
Reza Fazeli ( fa, رضا فاضلی, 3 July 1935, Tehran - 13 April 2009, California), Iranian actor, film director and leading Opposition (politics), opposition figure.
After a period of one year in the Imperial Iranian Air Force he left the co ...
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Sadaf Foroughi
Sadaf Foroughi ( fa, صدف فروغی; born July 27, 1976) is an Iranian director, screenwriter, producer and editor. She has a bachelor's degree in French literature. After receiving her master's degree in film studies from University of Provenc ...
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Kamran Ghadakchian
Kamran Qadakchian (Persian: کامران قدکچیان; born in Tehran, Iran) is a film director and editor. He is the son of actor Ahmad Qadakchian.
Selected filmography
* ''Sorcerer'', 1972
* '' The Song of Tehran'', 1992
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Iraj Ghaderi
Iraj Ghaderi ( fa, ایرج قادری; 17 April 1934 – 6 May 2012) was an Iranian film director and actor. He briefly studied to become a pharmacist, but soon dropped out. He died in Tehran on 6 May 2012, aged 77.
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Shahyar Ghanbari
Shahyar Ghanbari ( fa, شهیار قنبری also spelled wrongly as Shahryar Ghanbari , born 28 July 1950 in Tehran) is an Iranian poet, writer, lyricist, songwriter, and singer of Persian pop music. He is also a film director & radio-TV produce ...
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Tina Gharavi
Tina Gharavi ( fa, تینا غروی) is an Iranian-born British-American BAFTA and Sundance nominated artist, director and screenwriter. Gharavi is known for her innovative cross-platform stories about outsiders, misfits and rebels as well as ...
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Behrouz Gharibpour
Behrouz Gharibpour ( fa, بهروز غریبپور) (born 1950 in Sanandaj) is an Iranian theatre director and pioneer of traditional Persian puppet theatre.
He studied theatre at Tehran University and at ''Dramatic Arts Academy'' in Rome ...
Bahman Ghobadi
Bahman Ghobadi ( fa, بهمن قبادی; ; born 1 February 1969 in Baneh, Kurdistan province, Iran) is an Iranian Kurdish film director, producer and writer. He belongs to the " new wave" of Iranian cinema.
Biography
He was born in Baneh, a K ...
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Fereydun Gole
Fereydun Gole ( fa, فریدون گُله; also spelled Fereydoun Goleh) (1941 – 22 October 2005) was an Iranian screenwriter, film director, and film editor. He was active in producing urban drama films throughout the 1970s, dealing with such ...
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Ebrahim Golestan
Ebrahim Golestan ( fa, , born 19 October 1922) is an Iranian filmmaker and literary figure with a career spanning half a century. He has lived in Sussex, United Kingdom, since 1975.
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Mani Haghighi
Mani Haghighi ( fa, مانی حقیقی; born 4 May 1969) is an Iranian film director, writer, film producer and actor. Haghighi started making movies in 2001.
Early life and education
Haghighi was born in Tehran, the son of the translator and ...
Ebrahim Hatamikia
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 ...
Mohammad-Reza Honarmand
Mohammad Reza Honarmand ( fa, محمدرضا هنرمند , born 1955 in Tehran) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter and Film producer, producer.
Directing in Cinema
Honarmand has directed films in various genres . In ''dozd-e arousak-ha'', ...
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Robert Hossein
Robert Hossein (30 December 1927 – 31 December 2020) was a French film actor, director, and writer. He directed the 1982 adaptation of ''Les Misérables'' and appeared in '' Vice and Virtue'', '' Le Casse'', '' Les Uns et les Autres'' and '' ...
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Abolfazl Jalili
Abolfazl Jalili ( fa, ابوالفضل جلیلی , born 1957 in Saveh, Iran) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He belongs to the Iranian '' new wave'' movement.
Jalili studied directing at the Iranian College of Dramatic Arts, the ...
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Rambod Javan
Rambod Javan ( fa, رامبد جوان; born on 22 December 1971 in Tehran) is an Iranian actor, director, TV host and the author of many screenplays. Rambod Javan has made and directed a locally famous TV program, Khandevane. Khandevane has s ...
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Mehdi Jafari
Mehdi Jafari ( fa, مهدی جعفری; born 1969) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. In 2021, he won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Director
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Vahid Jalilvand
Vahid Jalilvand (Persian: وحید جلیلوند; born March 11, 1976) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, actor and editor. He has won the Crystal Simorgh for Best First Director and Best First Film at the 33rd Fajr Film Festival and th ...
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Nima Javidi
Nima Javidi (Persian: نیما جاویدی, born 29 February 1980) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his films ''Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and ...
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Abdolreza Kahani
Abdolreza Kahani ( fa, عبدالرضا کاهانی; born 22 December 1973) is an Iranian filmmaker.
He made his first short film, The Smile in 1988. He made his first feature film, Dance with the Moon in 2003.
In 2009, Kahani's film '' Twenty ...
Cyrus Kar
Cyrus Kar (born March 18, 1961 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-born American film director, and vindicated alleged terrorist who was captured by United States forces in Iraq on May 17,
2005, while filming a documentary on the life of Cyrus Th ...
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Varuzh Karim-Masihi
Varuzh Karim-Masihi ( hy, Վարուժ Քարիմ Մասիհի; fa, واروژ کریممسیحی, born 1953 in َArak) is an Iranian-Armenian film director, film editor, and screenplay writer.
Biography
Born in 1952 in Arak, he had his el ...
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Niki Karimi
Niki Karimi ( fa, نیکی کریمی; born November 10, 1971) is an Iranian actress, director, screenwriter and producer. Regarded as "the most prominent figure among the young generations coming after the Iranian Revolution", she has received v ...
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Nosrat Karimi
Nosrat Karimi ( fa, نصرت کریمی; 22 December 1924 – 3 December 2019) was an Iranian actor, director, make-up artist, professor, scriptwriter, and sculptor. His career spanned six decades. He was perhaps best known for his role as ...
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Maryam Keshavarz
Maryam Keshavarz ( fa, مریم کشاورز) is an American filmmaker(Iranian pedigreed) best known for her 2011 film '' Circumstance'' distributed by Participant Media and Roadside Attractions, which won the Audience Award at Sundance Film F ...
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Samuel Khachikian
Samuel Khachikian ( hy, Սամուէլ Խաչիկեան ; fa, ساموئل خاچیکیان; October 21, 1923 – October 22, 2001) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, author, and film editor of Armenian descent. He was one of the most ...
Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami ( fa, عباس کیارستمی ; 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 ...
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Bahman Kiarostami
Bahman Kiarostami ( fa, بهمن کیارستمی; born 11 August 1978, in Tehran) is an Iranian film director, cinematographer, film editor and film producer. He is the son of the late critically acclaimed Abbas Kiarostami. The main theme in Kia ...
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Masoud Kimiai
Masoud Kimiai (or Masoud Kimiaei, fa, مسعود کیمیایی, born 29 July 1941) is an Iranian director, screenwriter and producer.
Biography
Kimiai started his career as an assistant director and made his debut, ''Come Stranger'', in 19 ...
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Parviz Kimiavi
Parviz Kimiavi ( fa, پرويز کيمياوی; born 1939, in Tehran) is an Iranian (Persian) film director, screenwriter, editor and one of the most prominent figures of Persian cinema of the 20th century.
Kimiavi studied photography and film at ...
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Alexis Kouros
Alexis Kouros (born 1961, in Kermanshah, Iran) is an Iranian-Finnish writer, documentary-maker, director, and producer.
His first book, ''Gondwana's Children'', won the Finlandia Junior award in 1997. His first film was the 2000 documentary, ''W ...
Sadegh Karamyar
Sadegh Karamyar (Persian: صادق کرمیار, born 18 December 1959) is an Iranian writer, journalist, screenwriter, and film director. He is best known for his novels, particularly Namira (book), Namira (Immortal) and Ghanimat (The Spoils). H ...
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Mohammad Kart
Mohammad Kart ( fa, محمد کارت; born ) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter and actor. In 2020, he won the Crystal Simorgh for Audience Choice of Best Film for making the film ''Drown'' at the 38th Fajr Film Festival
The 38th Fajr ...
Gholamhussein Lotfi
Gholamhussein Lotfi ( fa, غلامحسین لطفی born 21 November 1949 in Qazvin) is an Iranian actor, film director and screenwriter.
He received an M.A. degree in acting and directorship and an honorary doctorate in theater. He has been in ...
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Reza Mirkarimi
Reza Mirkarimi ( fa, رضا میرکریمی; born 27 January 1967) is an Iranian screenwriter and film director.
He was also Secretary of the International Film Festival of the Fajr Film Festival.
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Majid Majidi
Majid Majidi ( fa, مجید مجیدی, ; born 17 April 1959) is an Iranian film director, producer, and screenwriter, who started his film career as an actor. In his films, Majidi has touched on many themes and genres and has won numerous inte ...
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Hana Makhmalbaf
Hana Makhmalbaf ( fa, حنا مخملباف; born September 3, 1988 in Tehran) is an Iranian filmmaker. She is the younger sister of filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf and daughter of filmmakers Mohsen Makhmalbaf and fatemeh meshkini. She is known fo ...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Mohsen Makhmalbaf ( fa, محسن مخملباف, ''Mohsen Makhmalbaaf''; born May 29, 1957) is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards and been a juror in more than 1 ...
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Samira Makhmalbaf
Samira Makhmalbaf ( fa, سمیرا مخملباف, ''Samira Makhmalbaaf'') (born 15 February 1980)
Filmography
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* "Sutherland Trophy", London Film Festival (1998), UK.
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Yassamin Maleknasr
Yassamin Maleknasr (also spelled Yasman Malek-Nasr, born 19 May 1955, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian filmmaker and actress.
Career
Yassamin Maleknasr is the first Iranian woman filmmaker to graduate from the University of Southern California (USC) i ...
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Asghar Massombagi Asghar Massombagi is an Iranian-Canadian film director, most noted for his 2001 film '' Khaled''.Alexandra Gill, "Reflections in an exile's eye". ''The Globe and Mail'', April 20, 2002.
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Dariush Mehrjui
Dariush Mehrju'i ( fa, داریوش مهرجویی , born 8 December 1939, also spelled as ''Mehrjui'', ''Mehrjoui'', Mehrjooi, and ''Mehrjuyi'') is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and a member of the Iranian Academy of ...
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Marzieh Meshkini
Marzieh Meshkini ( fa, مرضیه مشکینی) (born 1969 in Tehran) is an Iranian cinematographer, film director and writer. She is married to filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who wrote the script for her debut film ''The Day I Became a Woman''.
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Tahmineh Milani
Tahmineh Milāni ( fa, تهمینه میلانی) is an Iranian feminist activist, and film director and producer.
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She was born 1960 in Tabriz, Iran. After graduating in architecture from the University of Science and Technology ...
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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 departme ...
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Mehran Modiri
Mehran Modiri ( fa, مهران مدیری; born 7 April 1967) is an Iranian director, producer, actor, and singer. He is considered to be the leading artist in social satire in Iran.
His various series, which have been broadcast through IRIB hav ...
Shahram Mokri
Shahram Mokri ( fa, شهرام مکری)(born 1978) is an Iranian filmmaker. He graduated from Soore University. Mokri started his filmmaking training in the Young Cinema Association and entered the professional world of cinema with his short fil ...
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Granaz Moussavi
Granaz Moussavi (Persian : گراناز موسوی ), is an Iranian-Australian contemporary poet, film director and screenwriter. She is primarily renowned for her avant-garde poetry in the 90s. Her award-winning debut feature film '' My Tehran fo ...
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Rasoul Mollagholipour
Rasoul Mollagholipour ( Persian:رسول ملاقلیپور; also spelled Rasool Mollagholi Poor; 1955 – 6 March 2007) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.
Career
He began his career as a photographer. He direc ...
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Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh
Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh ( fa, اسفندیار منفردزاده, Esfandiyār Monfaredzādeh; born 1941 in Tehran) is an Iranian pioneer film composer, songwriter, and filmmaker. He is recognized for his contribution to film and pop music in I ...
Bahman Motamedian
Bahman Motamedian ( fa, بهمن معتمدیان; born 2 July) is an Iranian film maker, photographer, writer and script writer. He was born in Tehran, Iran. Motamedian belongs to the so-called " new wave" of Iranian cinema.
Bahman Motamedian is ...
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Duraid Munajim
Duraid Munajim is a Toronto-based film director and a freelance cinematographer.
Career
Munajim is an Iraqi-Persian born in Kuwait in 1972, to an Iraqi Arab father and Iranian Persian mother. Duraid was 17 years of age when his family immigr ...
Amir Naderi
Amir Naderi ( fa, امیر نادری (), born 15 August 1946, in Abadan) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and photographer. He is best known for '' The Runner'' and ''Vegas: Based on a True Story''.
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Shirin Neshat
Shirin Neshat ( fa, شیرین نشاط; born March 26, 1957 in Qazvin) is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and th ...
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Parviz Nouri
Parviz Nouri (Persian: پرویز نوری; born May 1, 1938) is an Iranian movie critic, screenwriter, and director who has been involved in production of over 20 movies and television shows. He currently resides in the United States and lives ...
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Mohammad Nourizad
Mohammad Nourizad ( fa, محمد نوری زاد), born 10 December 1952) is an Iranian filmmaker, activist, and former journalist for the conservative daily '' Kayhan''.
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Hossein Nuri
Hossein Nuri (also written Hosein Noori or Hussein Nouri) (Persian: حسین نوری, born 1 July 1954) is an Iranian painter, playwright and film director. One of Nuri's pre-eminent characteristics is that despite his physical limitations he h ...
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Ovanes Ohanian
Ovanes Ohanian ( hy, Հովհաննես Օհանյան, fa, اوانس اوهانیانس; October 1896 – September 1960) was an Armenian-Iranian filmmaker, inventor, founder, doctor, scientist with PhD in medicine, film, science and langu ...
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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 ass ...
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Kambuzia Partovi
Kambuzia Partovi (also spelt Kambozia Partovi, fa, کامبوزیا پرتوی; 11 November 1955 – 24 November 2020) was an Iranian film director and screenwriter.
Biography
He was born in Rasht, Iran, on the Caspian Sea. After studying theate ...
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Babak Payami
Babak Payami ( fa, بابک پیامی , born 1966) is an Iranian-Canadian film director, writer and producer.
Biography
Born in Tehran, Iran, Payami grew up in Afghanistan and Iran before leaving for Europe and subsequently Canada, where he ...
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Rafi Pitts
Rafi Pitts ( fa, رفیع پیتز, born 1967) is an Iranian film director.
Life and career
Pitts was born in Mashad, Iran. Rafi spent his childhood in Tehran, where he lived in a basement flat underneath a post-production studio. He came to Eng ...
Hossein Rajabian
Hossein Rajabian ( fa, حسین رجبیان; born 5 July 1984) is an Iranian filmmaker, writer and photographer who was imprisoned as a political prisoner in 2015 on charges related to his filmmaking. He as an anti-censorship filmmaker and def ...
Rouzbeh Rashidi
Rouzbeh Rashidi ( fa, روزبه رشیدی; born 23 December 1980, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-Irish avant-garde filmmaker and founder of Experimental Film Society. Since 2000, Rashidi produced experimental feature films and numerous volumes ...
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Amir Shahab Razavian
Amir Shahab Razavian ( fa, امیرشهاب رضویان, born 25 May 1965 in Hamadan, Iran) is an Iranian film director, filmmaker and producer.
Razavian began his cinematic activities at ''Hamedan Amateur Film-making Centre'' in 1980 while still ...
Mohammad Rasoulof
Mohammad Rasoulof ( fa, محمد رسولاف; born 16 November 1972) is an Iranian independent filmmaker. He is known for several award-winning films, including his first, '' The Twilight'' (2002); '' Iron Island'' (2005); '' Manuscripts Don ...
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Saeed Roustayi
Saeed Roustaee (Persian: سعید روستایی, born August 14, 1989), also spelled Saeed Roustayi, is an Iranian director, screenwriter and producer. He has won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best First Director a ...
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Hamid Samandarian
Hamid Samandarian fa, حمید سمندریان; May 6, 1931 – July 12, 2012) was an Iranian film and theater director and translator. He staged numerous dramas including ''No Exit'' by Jean-Paul Sartre, ''Ghosts'' by Henrik Ibsen, ''The ...
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Houman Seyyedi
Houman Seyyedi ( fa, هومن سيدی , born November 29, 1980) is an Iranian actor, director, screenwriter and editor. He has received various accolades, including six Crystal Simorghs–making him the only director to have three wins in Spec ...
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Hossein Shahabi
Hossein Shahabi ( fa, ; 28 November 1967 – 22 January 2023) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Biography
Shahabi has got Cinema Directing master's degree and Classical Music B.A from Tehran University. After grad ...
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Parviz Shahbazi
Parviz Shahbazi is an Iranian filmmaker.
Biography
Shahbazi is a graduate of filmmaking in Iran. During the early 80's he began writing short stories and directing short films. He edited several films and directed 12 short films before making h ...
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Sohrab Shahid-Saless
Sohrab Shaheed Salles or Sohrab Shahid-Saless ( fa, سهراب شهید ثالث; June 28, 1944 in Tehran, Iran – July 2, 1998 in Chicago, Illinois) was an Iranian film director and screenwriter and one of the most celebrated figures in Irania ...
Siamak Shayeghi
Siamak Shayeghi ( fa, سیامک شایقی ; 11 August 1954 – 15 April 2020) was an Iranian film director and film producer.
Born in Abadan, he graduated in Cinema and Television and started his career as film critic and was assistant direc ...
Khosrow Sinai
Khosrow Sinai ( fa, خسرو سینایی , 19 January 1941 – 1 August, 2020) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, composer, poet and scholar.
Sinai's work was influenced by documentaries and focused on social and artistic subjects. ...
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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 ...
Hassan Yektapanah
Hassan Yektapanah (born 1963, in Tehran) is an Iranian (Persian) filmmaker and screenwriter.
He started his career as an assistant director, first with Jafar Panahi on " The Mirror" (1997) and then on Abbas Kiarostami's film "Taste of Cherry" (1 ...
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Mona Zandi Haghighi
Mona Zandi (born October 1972 in Tehran) is an Iranian film director. She is a director and editor of short films, documentaries and feature films. Her film work belongs to the cinema of post-revolutionary Iran, which focuses on contemporary soc ...
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Iranian cinema
The Cinema of Iran (Persian: سینمای ایران), also known as the Cinema of Persia, refers to the cinema and film industries in Iran which produce a variety of commercial films annually. Iranian art films have garnered international fame a ...
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Persian theatre
Persian theater ( fa, تئاتر ایرانی) goes back to antiquity. The first initiation of theater and phenomena of acting can be traced in ceremonial theaters to glorify national heroes and legends and to humiliate the enemy, as in the class ...
List of Iranian films
A list of films produced in Iran ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of Iranian films see :Iranian films.
* List of Iranian films before 1960
* List of Iranian films of the 1960s
* List of Iranian films of the 1970s
* List of Ir ...
IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ...
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 ...