Helen (2017 Film)
''Helen'' () is a 2017 Iranian drama film directed and produced by Ali Akbar Saghafi. Plot ''Helen'' is the story of a girl who wants to go Italy but takes a different path due to family problems... Cast * Roshanak Gerami as ''Helen'' * Roya Nonahali as ''Nasrin'' (Mother of Helen) * Pejman Bazeghi as ''Bobby'' * Amin Hayai as ''Step-Father of Helen'' * Hootan Shakiba as ''Ashkan'' * Setareh Pesyani Setareh Pesyani (; born September 8, 1985) is an Iranian actress. She has won an Honorary Diploma at the 39th Fajr Film Festival and an Urban International Film Festival, Urban International Film Festival Award for her performance in the war dram ... as ''Negin'' * Sahar Khazaeli as ''Shabnam'' * Mehrdad Fallahatgar * Sara Kashefi * Ashkan Mehri * Faranak Kooshafar References External links *Helenon Namava {{Authority control 2017 films 2010s Persian-language films 2017 drama films Iranian drama films ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Roya Nonahali
Roya Nonahali (; born February 13, 1963) is an Iranian actress and director. She studied painting, and has worked in theatre since 1984. Nonahali started film acting with ''The Beloved Is at Home'' (1987, by Khosrow Sinai). Then she was selected by Mohsen Makhmalbaf for ''Marriage of the Blessed'' and received a Crystal Simorgh for Best Actress from Fajr International Film Festival. Her performance in ''Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (film), Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine'' was awarded with the Best Supporting Actress award at the festival. She started acting in TV programs by ''Asleep & Awake'' in 2001. In 2019 she referee's in first Iranian Talent Show called Asre Jadid produced by Ehsan Alikhani. Filmography * ''The Imperfect Man'', 1992 * ''The Fifth Season'', 1996 * ''Smell of Camphor, Scent of Jasmine'' (directed by Bahman Farmanara), 2000 * ''Sleep and Awake (TV series)'', 2002-2003 * ''Women’s Prison (2002 film), Women's Prison'', 2002 * ''The House Bui ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pejman Bazeghi
Pejman Bazeghi (; born August 10, 1974) is an Iranian actor. Early life and career Bazeghi was born on August 10, 1974, in Tehran, Iran to an ethnic Gilaki Persian-speaking family. He is the second child of a family of five, with an origin from the Northern part of Iran, Lahijan. During his childhood, due to his father’s job, he moved and lived in different cities which gave him a lot of experience for his future. After the Islamic revolution, when he was only four years old, his family moved to Rasht. During Iran’s war with Iraq because his father became one of the guardians to defend southern sea borders of Iran, his family moved to Boushehr. After the war and his family’s return to Tehran, Pejman got accepted in the Islamic Azad University, Lahijan Branch and moved there to continue his education in the field of Mining engineering. It was there that he got interested in cinema and acting. In 1994, he entered the central youth cinema of Gilan and acted in his first fi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Amin Hayai
Amin Hayai (; born June 9, 1950) is an Iranian actor. He has received various accolades, including two Crystal Simorghs, three Hafez Awards and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Honorary Diploma, in addition to a nomination for an Iran Cinema Celebration Award. Career He started acting in theater along with his education. After finishing high school, he entered military service, and also acted in the art center of air force army. In 1991 he acted in a theatrical show for kids with the directorship of Soraya Ghasemi. It took him long to get a main acting role in movies, and he was successful in his first movie ''Eve's Red Apple''. He has also won the best male actor award in Fajr film festival for the film by Rasoul Sadr-Ameli, "The Night", in 2008. Hayai appeared in the film ''Woodpecker'' in 2018. Hayai also will appear in the film ''We Like You Miss Yaya'' which he filmed in 2017. He was awarded the Diploma Honorary for Best Actor for ''Blazing'' at the Fajr Film ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hootan Shakiba
Hootan Shakiba (; born 14 June 1984) is an Iranian actor. He is best known for his role as Habib Naghavi in ''Bachelors'' (2016–2019) which earned him a Hafez Award. Shakiba won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actor and his second Hafez Award for portraying Abdolhamid Rigi in '' When the Moon Was Full'' (2019). Early life and education Hootan Shakiba was born on 14 June 1984, in Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran to a Kurdish family and grew up there. He studied in Imam Mohammad Ghazali Governmental Leading Middle School. He received a Bachelor's degree in theater directing from Soore University and a Master's degree in acting from University of Arts. Career 2008–2012: Career beginnings Shakiba started acting at age 18 with working in theatre and short films. He played his first major and professional work in 2008 with ''Tune Your Violins'' play which earned him his first acting award at the 11th Iran International University Theater Festival. In 2009 he played in ''Marat/Sade'' pl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Setareh Pesyani
Setareh Pesyani (; born September 8, 1985) is an Iranian actress. She has won an Honorary Diploma at the 39th Fajr Film Festival and an Urban International Film Festival, Urban International Film Festival Award for her performance in the war drama ''Yadoo'' (2021). Career Setareh Pesyani is daughter of Atila Pesyani, the late Iranian actor. Her debut happened when she was 5 years old, in a play directed by her father. She has directed the play of ‘Magic Musical Instrument’ (1995), when she was 13. In 1991, she entered cinema by acting in ''World's Greatest Dad''. She has played in several movies and series such as ''Unfinished Narrations'' (2006), ''Three Women'' (2007), ''The Third Wave'' (2008), ''Office No.13'' (2009), and ''No Men Allowed'' (2011). She has won Best Actress Award of The 28th Fajr International Theater Festival, Fajr Theater Festival for playing in ''The House'' (2009) play. Filmography Film Web Television Awards and nominations Reference ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Arya Aziminejad
Arya Aziminejad (; born 25 April 1973) is an Iranian music composer. Biography Aziminejad was born into a cultured family in Tehran. His first teacher was his grandfather who taught him to play setar. Arya's father, Jamshid Aziminejad has been an active figure in the field of children and teenagers. His program: ''Khaneye Aroosakha'' was highly popular TV serial for children; Arya and his sister, Poopak played in the serial. Aziminejad has a B.A. in music from Islamic Azad University of Tehran. He started playing music in 1987 and after a while started composing and editing music. One of his goals has been to mix local and regional music of Iran with modern music. Composing for the following plays made him a nominee for the best music in the Fajr International Theater Festival. He is a member of Mohammad Esfahani Music Orchestra. In 2019, he referee's in first Iranian Talent Show called Asre Jadid Produced by Ehsan alikhani. Works Plays *''Ansooye Ayeneh'' (''Persian: Over ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the northeast, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. With a Ethnicities in Iran, multi-ethnic population of over 92 million in an area of , Iran ranks 17th globally in both List of countries and dependencies by area, geographic size and List of countries and dependencies by population, population. It is the List of Asian countries by area, sixth-largest country entirely in Asia and one of the world's List of mountains in Iran, most mountainous countries. Officially an Islamic republic, Iran is divided into Regions of Iran, five regions with Provinces of Iran, 31 provinces. Tehran is the nation's Capital city, capital, List of cities in Iran by province, largest city and financial ... [...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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Drama (film And Television)
In film and television show, television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or docudrama, semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humour, humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police procedural, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, Drama (film and television)#Teen drama, teen drama, and comedy drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular Setting (narrative), setting or subject matter, or they combine a drama's otherwise serious tone with elements that encourage a broader range of Mood (literature), moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of Conflict (process), conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of Film industry, cinema or television that involve Fiction, fiction ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as List of islands of Italy, nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares land borders with France to the west; Switzerland and Austria to the north; Slovenia to the east; and the two enclaves of Vatican City and San Marino. It is the List of European countries by area, tenth-largest country in Europe by area, covering , and the third-most populous member state of the European Union, with nearly 59 million inhabitants. Italy's capital and List of cities in Italy, largest city is Rome; other major cities include Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Bologna, Florence, Genoa, and Venice. The history of Italy goes back to numerous List of ancient peoples of Italy, Italic peoples—notably including the ancient Romans, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2017 Films
2017 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of films released, and notable deaths. Evaluation of the year Richard Brody of '' The New Yorker'' observed that for 2017, "the most important event in the world of movies was the revelation, in ''The New York Times'' and ''The New Yorker'', of sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein, and the resulting liberation of the long-stifled voices of the people who had been abused by him or other powerful figures in the movie business, and, for that matter, in other arts and industries, too." He emphasizes that in effect, " at's missing from the year-end list, and from the era in movies, isn't only the unmade work by these filmmakers but the artistry and the careers of cast and crew members who would have been in their unrealized films." Highest-grossing films The top films released in 2017 by worldwide gross are as follows: '' Star Wars: The Last Jedi'', '' Beauty and the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2010s Persian-language Films
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