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Iranian Cinema – “About Elly” leads Iran Cinema Celebration nominees
TEHRAN — Asghar Farhadi’s “About Elly” stands on top with eight nominations in the fourteenth edition of the Iran Cinema Celebration awards, announced the secretary of the event in a press release on Tuesday (Aug 24th, 2010). “About Elly”, which won Farhadi a Silver Bear for best director at the Berlinale 2009, has been nominated ...
Children of Heaven (1997)
One of the most successful Iranian films in the West, Majid Majidi’s Children of Heaven received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film. It opens with eight-year-old Ali losing his younger sister Zahra’s newly repaired shoes. To avoid admitting this loss to his father, Ali and Zahra share a pair of sneakers, and much ...
Iranian Cinema – Iran Director Banned From Travelling to Venice Fest
VENICE (Reuters) – Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who was released from jail earlier this year, said on Wednesday he was not allowed to leave his home country to attend the Venice film festival. In a written statement to the festival, where his short film “The Accordion” is screening, Panahi said that he had been officially ...
Mohammad Ali Fardin (1930 – 2000)
A former wrestling champion, Fardin was the biggest star in Iran’s cinema during the 1960s and early 1970s. He acted and sometimes directed films in the luti genre, playing the proletarian rogue with the heart of gold, who rejects Westernization and materialism yet does not challenge the status quo (Champion of Champions [Siamak Yasami, 1965]; ...
Niki Karimi
Karimi is an award-winning Iranian actress, film director, and translator. Dariush Mehrjui’s Sara, based on Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, gave Karimi her first nationally and internationally acclaimed role, an emotionally charged rendering of the title character, Sara, a woman on the verge of discovering the truth about her exploitative and loveless marriage. She is ...
Tahmineh Milani (1960 – )
Born in Tabriz, Milani is the acclaimed director of such well-known woman-centered films as Two Women (1999), The Hidden Half (2001), The Fifth Reaction (2003), and The Unwanted Woman (2005). These films have been controversial in Iran, particularly The Hidden Half, which led to her imprisonment in 2001 for counterrevolutionary statements and alleged maligning and ...
Dariush Mehrjui (1939 – )
Born in Tehran, Mehrjui developed an early interest in music, learning the piano and santur. He came to study cinema at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), but abandoned it for a philosophy degree, reputedly disappointed by the UCLA film school’s Hollywood emphasis. After graduating in 1964, he started a literary magazine, which he ...
Abbas Kiarostami
At the end of the 1990s, an international poll of influential critics and curators named Abbas Kiarostami that decade’s most important filmmaker—no mean feat for a self-taught cineaste whose earliest movies were shorts made for Iran’s Centre for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults. But those films display breathtaking originality in their fresh, ...
Sara (1993)
Dariush Mehrjui is one of the most accomplished filmmakers of Iran, and earned international recognition in the 1970s with Gav / The Cow (1969) which heralded the Iranian New Wave. Mehrjui gained the reputation as a ‘women’s filmmaker’ in the 1990s with films such as Sara (1993), Pari (1995), Leila (1997) and Bemani (2002), all ...
Two Women (1998)
Two Women tells the story of two school friends, intelligent and beautiful Fereshteh from a modest background and the more privileged Roya. (Their names, respectively, mean ‘angel’ and ‘dream’ in Farsi.) Fereshteh’s student life in Tehran becomes a nightmare when a demented stalker carrying a knife and a vial of acid begins to harass her. ...
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Ishqiya (2010):
As a director, Vishal Bhardwaj has gone from strength to strength. From Maqbool in 2003, Omkara ...
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Nigar Awards - 1961: Best Film: Shaheed
Best Director: Khalil Qaiser - Shaheed
Best Script: Riaz Shahid - Shaheed
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Best Script: Hasan Minto - Badnaam
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Waris (1954):
An inheritance melodrama about Kunwar (Mahmood), the son of zamindar Rana Himmat Singh (Sethi). ...
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