Beloved Sky
''Beloved Sky'' (Persian: ''Aseman-e mahboob'') is a 2011 film by the Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui. Mehrjui also wrote the script with Vahideh Mohammadi. The film was lensed by Farrokh Majidi, and starred Ali Mosaffa, Leila Hatami, Mani Haghighi, and Farideh Sepah Mansour in the principal roles. The film was shown at the 2011 Fajr International Film Festival, where Mehrjui won the Crystal Simorgh of Special Jury Prize Crystal Simorgh of Special Jury Prize is an award presented annually by the Fajr International Film Festival held in Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It border ....https://en.mehrnews.com/news/44693/Crime-crowned-best-film-of-Fajr-festival References External links * Iranian drama films Films directed by Dariush Mehrjui {{Iran-film-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dariush Mehrjui
Dariush Mehrjui (; 8 December 1939 – 14 October 2023) was an Iranian filmmaker 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, which also included directors Masoud Kimiai and Nasser Taqvai. His second film, ''The Cow'' (1969), is considered to be the first film of this movement. Most of his films are inspired by literature and adapted from Iranian and foreign novels and plays. On 14 October 2023, Mehrjui and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, were found stabbed to death in their home in the city of Karaj, near Tehran. Early life and education Dariush Mehrjui was born on 8 December 1939 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 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yahya Mansour Moayyed
Yahya may refer to: * Yahya (name), a common Arabic male given name * Yahya (Zaragoza), 11th-century ruler of Zaragoza * Yahya of Antioch / Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Antaki / Yaḥya ibn Saʿīd al-Anṭākī, 11th century Christian Arabic historian. * John the Baptist in Islam, also known as Yaḥyā ibn Zakarīyā * Yahya (TV series), 2024 Pakistani television minisries on Geo Entertainment See also * Tepe Yahya Tapeh Yahya () is an archaeological site in Kermān Province, Iran, some south of Kerman city, south of Baft city and 90 km south-west of Jiroft. The easternmost occupation of the Proto-Elamite culture was found there. A regional survey f ..., an archaeological site in Kermān Province, Iran * An ancient culture known as Yahya culture {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Farrokh Majidi
Farrokh may refer to: * Farrokh (name), including a list of people with the given name and surname, also variant spellings * Qanat-e Farrokh, village in Iran * Farrokh Pey, village in Iran * Farrokh Shahr, city in Iran * Farrokh Bolagh, East Azerbaijan, village in Iran * Farrokh Bolagh, Hamadan, village in Iran * Zu ol Farrokh, village in Iran See also * Farrokhzad (other) * Farukh (other) {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hassan Hassandoost
Hassan, Hasan, Hassane, Haasana, Hassaan, Asan, Hassun, Hasun, Hassen, Hasson or Hasani may refer to: People *Hassan (given name), Arabic given name and a list of people with that given name *Hassan (surname), Arabic, Jewish, Irish, and Scottish surname and a list of people with that surname Places * Hassan (crater), an impact crater on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn Africa * Abou El Hassan District, Algeria *Hassan Tower, the minaret of an incomplete mosque in Rabat, Morocco *Hassan I Dam, on the Lakhdar River in Morocco *Hassan I Airport, serving El Aaiún, Western Sahara Americas *Chanhassen, Minnesota, a city in Minnesota, United States *Hassan Township, Minnesota, a city in Minnesota, United States Asia *Hassan, Karnataka, a city and district headquarters in Karnataka, India **Hassan District, a district headquartered in Karnataka, India **Hassan (Lok Sabha constituency) **Hassan Airport, Karnataka *Hasan, Ilam, a village in Ilam Province, Iran *Hasan, North Khorasan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Persian Language
Persian ( ), also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Farsi (, Fārsī ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible standard language, standard varieties, respectively Iranian Persian (officially known as ''Persian''), Dari, Dari Persian (officially known as ''Dari'' since 1964), and Tajik language, Tajiki Persian (officially known as ''Tajik'' since 1999).Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in ''Media Insight Central Asia #27'', August 2002. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate society, Persianate history in the cultural sphere o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Iranian Peoples
Iranian peoples, or Iranic peoples, are the collective ethnolinguistic groups who are identified chiefly by their native usage of any of the Iranian languages, which are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages within the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. The Proto-Iranian language, Proto-Iranians are believed to have emerged as a separate branch of the Indo-Iranians in Central Asia around the mid-2nd millennium BC. At their peak of expansion in the mid-1st millennium BC, the territory of the Iranian peoples stretched across the entire Eurasian Steppe; from the Danube, Danubian Plains in the west to the Ordos Plateau in the east and the Iranian Plateau in the south.: "From the first millennium b.c., we have abundant historical, archaeological and linguistic sources for the location of the territory inhabited by the Iranian peoples. In this period the territory of the northern Iranians, they being equestrian nomads, extended over the whole zone of the ste ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ali Mosaffa
Ali Mosaffa (, born 1 December 1964) is an Iranian actor and filmmaker. Life and career Mosaffa was born in Tehran, Iran. His father, Mozaher Mosaffa (born in Tafresh), was a Persian poet and professor of Persian literature at the University of Tehran. Mosaffa's mother, Amir Banoo Karimi, is also a leading scholar and professor of Persian literature at the University of Tehran and the eldest daughter of the Persian poet, Seyed Karim Amiri Firuzkuhi. He is a graduate of Civil engineering from the University of Tehran where he showed an interest in acting; making his debut in the 1991 film, Omid. In the following year he won best male actor at the Fajr International Film Festival for his role in Darius Mehrjui's film, Pari. Mosaffa met his future wife, Iranian actress Leila Hatami on the set of Mehrjui's 1996 film, '' Leila''. The two married in 1999 and have two children, a son named Mani (born February 2007) and a daughter named Assal (born October 2008). Mosaffa's experie ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Leila Hatami
Leila Hatami (; born 1 October 1972) is an Iranian actress. Regarded as one of the best actresses of Iranian Cinema, she is considered one of the most prominent performers in the 21st century. She is recognized for her realistic acting in drama films and she rose to international fame for her role as Simin in Academy Award-winning film '' A Separation'' (2011), for which she received the Silver Bear for Best Actress. Hatami made her film debut portraying Kamal-ol-molk in the drama '' Kamalolmolk'' (1984) and received critical acclaim for playing a sterile young woman in the drama '' Leila'' (1997). She received her first Crystal Simorgh for Best Actress from the 27th Fajr Film Festival for playing a housewife in '' Penniless'' (2009) and received her first international award from the 26th Montreal World Film Festival for her performance in '' The Deserted Station'' (2002). in 2012, the French government made her a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. She received t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mani Haghighi
Mani Haghighi (, Romanized as "Mānī Haqīqī"; born May 4, 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 Persian. Career Films Haghighi’s uncle, the photoj ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Farideh Sepah Mansour
Farida is one of the common female names throughout West Asian culture. In Turkish it is spelled as Feride. In Persian, the name is rendered as Farideh () in the Iranian dialect, but Farida (Фарида) in the Afghan and Tajik dialects. People * Fareeda Kokikhel Afridi (died 2012), Pakistani women's rights activist * Farida (830-?), a 9th-century Arabic musician and wife of al-Mutawakkīl. * Farida of Egypt (1921–1988), Queen of Egypt * Farida Abiyeva (born 1995), Azerbaijani karateka * Farida al-Abani (born 1988), Swedish politician * Farida Amrani (born 1976), Moroccan-born French trade unionist and politician * Farida Anwar (born 1946), British politician * Farida Arriany (1938–1977), Indonesian actress, model, and singer * Farida Azam (1937–1992), Pakistani politician's wife * Farida Azizi, Afghan women's rights activist * Farida Azizova (born 1995), Azerbaijani taekwondo practitioner * Farida Arouche (born 1980), Algerian chess player * Farida El Askalany ( ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fajr International Film Festival
Iran's annual Fajr International Film Festival (), or Fajr Film Festival (little: FIFF; ), has been held every February in Tehran since 1983. 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 to 2022, the festival was bifurcated into two festivals, a national festival in February, which was notable for premieres of the most important domestic movies, and an international one, which was held in April. Since 2022, the national and international segments have been me ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |