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Bahram Radan
Bahram Radan ( fa, بهرام رادان , born April 28, 1979) is an Iranian actor, producer and singer. He has received various accolades, including two Crystal Simorgh and a Hafez Award. Career While studying business management in college, Radan signed up for acting classes where he was discovered as an emerging talent. He got his first break when he was given an opportunity for his first role starring in the movie ''The Passion of Love''. The movie achieved great success at the Iranian box office and was one of the top-grossing movies of 2000. Radan has since starred in many movies and has become a popular household name in the Middle East, often referred to as one of the top five superstars of Iranian cinema. His extreme popularity caused Iranian authorities to ban his images from billboards in 2008. In 2010, he was chosen by United Nations as the first Iranian UN ambassador against hunger. While studying business management in college, Radan signed up for acting classes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fajr Film Festival
Iran's annual Fajr International Film Festival ( fa, جشنواره بینالمللی فیلم فجر), or Fajr Film Festival (little: FIFF; fa, جشنواره فیلم فجر), has been held every February and April in Tehran since 1982. The festival is supervised by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. It takes place on the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The awards are the Iranian equivalent to the American Academy Awards. The festival has been promoted locally and internationally through television, radio and webinars; speakers have come from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Organizations contributing to the event have included the Farabi Cinema Foundation, Iran film foundation, Press TV, HispanTV and Iran's multi-lingual film channel IFilm. From 2015, the festival has been separated into a national festival in February, which is notable for premieres of the most important domestic movies, and an international one, held in Ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Career Derakh'shandeh graduated in film directing in 1975 from Advanced School of Television and Cinema (مدرسه عالی تلویزیون و سینما) in Tehran. She started her professional career by making documentary films for the Kermanshah Television and subsequently for the Tehran Television. Her motion pictures include ''Relationship'' (1986), ''A Little Bird of Happiness'' (1987), ''Passing Through the Dust'' (1988), ''Lost Time'' (1989), ''A Love Without Frontier'' (1998), ''Candle in the Wind'' (2003), ''Wet Dream'' (2005), ''Eternal Children'' (2006), and ''Hush! Girls Don't Scream'' (2013). At the time she began working at NIRT and Produced “Plague”; A documentary about plague disease in Kurdistan Province. Next year, she produced a documentary about the "Last Wednesday of the Year" ceremony cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladakh International Film Festival
The Ladakh International Film Festival (LIFF) is an international film festival that is held annually in Ladakh, India. Inaugurated in 2012, it is the first international film festival to be held in Ladakh. It is held in the Himalayan town of Leh, the largest town in Ladakh, at an altitude of more than 11,000 feet (3350 metres), making it the highest-altitude film festival in the world. A major theme of the festival is wildlife conservation. In partnership with the Snow Leopard Conservancy India Trust, the festival offers the Snow Leopard Trophy for the most educational or inspiring film about an endangered species. The festival was organized by Kerala-based filmmakeMelwyn WilliamsChirayath and his business associate Meghna Dubey, partners at Monasse Films. 2012 festival The first annual LIFF was held on 15–17 June 2012. It was attended by Omar Abdullah, the chief minister of the then-state of Jammu and Kashmir. The festival chair was film director Shyam Benegal, and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 elementary and high school education in his motherland and then moved to Germany to study medicine. There, in the Munich club of Armenians, he met an Armenian actor and changed the course of his life. He developed an interest in cinema and when he returned to Iran in 1971, he was introduced to Bahram Bayzai and assisted him in making ''The Downpour''. He assisted on all of his films up to the Islamic Revolution, as well as other directors like Kamran Shirdel, Amir Naderi, and 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 fa .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doubt (2009 Film)
''Doubt'' ( fa, تردید, Tardid) is a 2009 Iranian Crystal Simorgh-winning film directed by Varuzh Karim Masihi. It is an adaptation of Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''. Made after 17 years, Tardid is Karim Masihi's second feature film after Parde-ye Akhar (''The Last Act''). Plot Siavash Roozbehan is a young man and he has lost his father after his mysterious suicide. His uncle is managing his father's wealth. He is in love with his cousin Mahtab whose father is his uncle's councilor. Siavash gradually realizes that his uncle is going to marry his mother. After some days he also sees a lot of similarities between his own life and of Shakespeare's Hamlet. He goes to Garo, his best friend, and they try to change the end of the tragic story. Cast *''Note'': Because most of main characters in the film have a reference in Hamlet play the names in the parentheses are given for a better understanding of the film plot and are the external reference to Hamlet characters. *''Bahram Radan'' as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penniless (film)
''Penniless'' (Persian: ''Bi pooli'') is a 2009 film by the Iranian director Hamid Nematollah. The script was written by Nematollah and Hadi Moghadamdoost, and the film was lensed by Alireza Zarrindast. Leila Hatami, Bahram Radan Bahram Radan ( fa, بهرام رادان , born April 28, 1979) is an Iranian actor, producer and singer. He has received various accolades, including two Crystal Simorgh and a Hafez Award. Career While studying business management in college ... and Nader Fallah starred in the principal roles. References {{Crystal Simorgh for Audience Choice of Best Film Iranian comedy-drama films 2009 films Crystal Simorgh for Audience Choice of Best Film winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 gallery owner Lili Golestan and the cinematographer Nemat Haghighi. His maternal grandfather is the writer and filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan. Haghighi was educated in Iran and, from the age of 15, Appleby College in Canada. He took a BA in philosophy at McGill University in Montréal, where he studied under Charles Taylor and Brian Massumi, and directed plays including Pinter’s ''Betrayal'' and Shakespeare’s ''Macbeth''. He then followed postgraduate studies at Guelph and Trent universities. He contributed a chapter to ''A Shock to Thought: Expression after Deleuze and Guattari'', edited by Brian Massumi, and also translated Michel Foucault's ''This is Not a Pipe'' into Farsi. Career Films Haghighi’s uncle, the photojournalist Kav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 the Arts. Mehrjui was a founding member of the Iranian New Wave movement of the early 1970s. His second film, '' Gaav'', is considered to be the first film of this movement, which also included Masoud Kimiai and Nasser Taqvai. Most of his films are inspired by literature and adapted from Iranian and foreign novels and plays. Career Early life and education Dariush Mehrjui was born to a middle-class family in Tehran. He showed interest in painting miniatures, music, and playing santoor and piano. He spent a lot of time going to the movies, particularly American films which were un-dubbed and inter-spliced with explanatory title cards that explained the plot throughout the films. At this time Mehrjui started to learn English so as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santouri (film)
''Santouri'' (known as ''The Music Man''; fa, سنتوری, also Romanized as ''Santoori'') with the previous name of ''Ali Santouri'' is a 2007 Iranian drama film Film director, directed by Dariush Mehrjui dealing with the life of a Santoor (Persian instrument), santour player named Ali Bolourchi. The film's title, "''Santouri''" refers to one who can play the santour instrument. In Persian "playing the Santour" is also the euphemism for injecting heroin into one's veins; thrashing, for instance, one's arm for causing the main artery of the arm to swell, in preparation for the injection, is reminiscent of playing the santour. The film has only been screened once in Iran and it has had limited release screenings in North America as well as some showings at various film festivals. Plot The film begins near the end of the film's timeline. Ali Bolourchi, a santour player (Bahram Radan) narrates his life after his wife Hanieh (Golshifteh Farahani) left him. Ali now makes a living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Command (2005 Film)
'' The Command'' ( fa, حکم) lit. is a 2005 Iranian film directed by Masoud Kimiai. It stars Poulad Kimiayi, Ezzatollah Entezami, Khosro Shakibai, Leila Hatami, Bahram Radan. It is the 25th film by Kimiai. The film tells the story of gangster relations in Iran and a love story between two former lovers. Plot Mohsen (Poulad Kimiayi) and Foroozandeh (Leila Hatami) are a former couple. They and Sahand (Bahram Radan), who is their friend, go to an Engineer manager's house to rob his safe. After that, they go to Reza Maroufi (Ezzatollah Entezami), an old retired gangster to take a fake passport for Foroozandeh. Mohsen and Forozandeh struggle in the way and Foroozandeh returns to Tehran. Maroufi and Sahand also come back to Maroufi's house in Tehran and they see Foroozandeh that is injured by Mohsen ..... The cast *Ezzatollah Entezami as ''Reza Maroufi'' * Khosro Shakibai as ''Had-e-Misagh'' *Leila Hatami as ''Foroozandeh'' *Poulad Kimiayi as ''Mohsen'' *Bahram Radan as ''Sahand'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirus 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 his debut film ''Sanjar'' in 1971. He is among filmmakers of pre-Revolution era who are still working. Some of his films were among box office hits. In 1993, he won a Crystal Simorgh The Crystal Simorgh ( fa, سیمرغ بلورین) is an award given by Fajr International Film Festival Iran's annual Fajr International Film Festival ( fa, جشنواره بینالمللی فیلم فجر), or Fajr Film Festival (litt ... for best director in the 11th Fajr International Film Festival. Films * ''Outcry under the Water'', 1977 * ''Stemming from Blood'', 1983 * ''Cargo'', 1987 * ''Once and for All'', 1992 * ''The Face'', 1995 * ''The Corrupted Hands'', 1999 * ''The Intruder'', 2001 * ''Porteghal Khoni'', 2010 References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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