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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-winning Asghar Farhadi''.'' He has received various accolades, including two Iran Cinema Celebration Awards and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award, in addition to nominations for two Crystal Simorghs and two Hafez Awards. Career Acting career Abar began his career hosting television shows such as ''Rainbow'', a children's TV show, and a game show called ''In 100 Seconds. He later gained recognition with his role in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's ''Sha'ere Zobale''. In 2006, he starred alongside Ezzatollah Entezami in ''Minaye Shahr-e Khamush'' as a driver and that role earned him a Crystal Simorgh Prize Nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Abar's talent did not go unnoticed in ''Dayere Zangi'' (2007), as he then was offered a role in Asghar Farhadi's ''About Elly''. The movie receive ...
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37th Fajr Film Festival
The 37th Fajr Film Festival ( fa, سی و هفتمین جشنواره فیلم فجر) held from 1 to 11 February 2019 in Tehran, Iran. The nominees for the 37th Fajr Film Festival were announced on February 10, 2019, at a press conference. Jury Main Competition * Mohammad Ehsani * Mohammad Ali Bashe Ahangar * Mohammad Bozorgnia * Mehrzad Danesh * Pouran Derakhshandeh * Rima Raminfar * Mahmoud Kalari First Look, Short Film, Documentary * Mohammad Afarideh * Habib Ahmadzadeh * Aida Panahandeh * Saeed Soheili * Maziar Miri Winners and nominees Main Competition First Look Advertising Competition Films with multiple wins Films with multiple nominations Films Main Competition First Look Animation Documentary Short Film References External links 37th Fajr Film Festivalat IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home video ...
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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 studying at high school (at ''Ebn-e Sinā'' High School in Hamadan). He earned his film directing degree from ''College of Theatre and Cinema'' of ''Art University'' in 1990. From the same college, he received in 1995 his post-graduate degree in animation. Since then, he has produced seventy short films, directed thirty documentaries and short films, and three feature films. The latter is ''The Journey of the Grey Men'' (''Safar-e Mardān-e Khākestari''), ''Tehran, Seven O'clock in the Morning'' (''Tehrān Sā'at-e Haft-e Sobh'') and '' Colors of Memory'' (with the original title ''Minā-ye Shahr-e Khāmoush'', The Minā of the Extinguished Town).Interview with Amir-Shahab Razavian, UCLA, April 11, 2008 Although in this document, Mr Raz ...
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Pedram Pour-Amiri
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Without Her (2022 Film)
''Without Her'' ( Persian: بی رویا, romanized: ''Bi Roya'', lit. ''Without Roya'') is a 2022 Iranian drama mystery thriller film directed and written by Arian Vazirdaftari and produced by Houman Seyyedi and Saeed Sadi. The film screened for the first time at the 40th Fajr Film Festival where it won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actress for Tannaz Tabatabaei and earned 2 other nominations, one of which was for Shadi Karamroudi as the best actress in the supporting role and the other one for the director Arian Vazirdaftari as the Best Debut Film prize nominee. ''Without Her'' screened at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in the Horizons Extra section on September 6, 2022. Premise Roya meets a girl named Ziba who has forgotten all of her past and she wants to help Ziba to find her family but after some days Roya starts to forget things about herself. Cast * Tannaz Tabatabaei as Roya * Shadi Karamroudi as Ziba * Saber Abar as Babak * Farank Kalantar * R ...
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Iran–Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. It began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for almost eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 598 by both sides. Iraq's primary rationale for the attack against Iran cited the need to prevent Ruhollah Khomeini—who had spearheaded Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979—from exporting the new Iranian ideology to Iraq; there were also fears among the Iraqi leadership of Saddam Hussein that Iran, a theocratic state with a population predominantly composed of Shia Muslims, would exploit sectarian tensions in Iraq by rallying Iraq's Shia majority against the Baʽathist government, which was officially secular and dominated by Sunni Muslims. Iraq also wished to replace Iran as the power player in the Persian Gulf, which was not seen as an achievable objective prior to the Islamic Revolution because of Pahlavi Iran's econom ...
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Homayoun Assadian
Homâyun ( fa, همايون), also romanized as Homaayoon or Homāyūn is a Persian male given name, it also appears as a surname. Given name *Humayun, Mughal Emperor *Homayoun Behzadi (1942–2016), Iranian footballer *Homayoun Ershadi (born 1947), Iranian actor *Homayoun Katouzian (born 1942), Iranian academic *Homayoun Seraji (1947–2007), Iranian scientist *Homayoun Shahrokhi, Iranian football player, coach, and manager *Homayoun Shajarian (born 1975), Iranian singer *Homayoon Kazerooni, a roboticist and Berkley professor of Mechanical Engineering Surname *Dariush Homayoon (1928–2011), Iranian journalist, author, and politician *Saba Homayoon Saba Homayoon (born April 12, 1977) is a Canadian actress. Personal life Saba Homayoon was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She has been married to actor Neil Hopkins since 2007. The pair starred in the TV movie ''Hit Factor'' in 2008, whic ... (born 1977), a Canadian-Iranian actress. * Shahram Homayoun, Iranian television ...
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Negar Azarbeyjani
Negar ( fa, نگار, also Romanized as Negār; also known as Qanāt Bāgh and Nīgār) is a city in the Central District of Bardsir County Bardsir County ( fa, شهرستان بردسیر) is in Kerman province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Bardsir Bardsir ( fa, بردسير, also Romanized as Bardsīr and Bardesīr; also known as Deh-e Now-e Mashīz, Mashī ..., Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 9,291, in 1,583 families. References Populated places in Bardsir County Cities in Kerman Province {{Bardsir-geo-stub ...
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Facing Mirrors
''Facing Mirrors'' ( fa, آینه‌های روبرو, Aynehaye Rooberoo) is a 2011 Iranian drama film directed and co-written by Negar Azarbayjani. The film's producer and co-writer is Fereshteh Taerpoor. Plot Rana and Adineh (Eddie), two people of different backgrounds and social class are brought together to share a cab ride. Rana, inexperienced, religious and bound by traditions, is forced to drive a cab in order to survive financially and support her family. Adineh, wealthy yet rebellious, has escaped from their home and an upcoming arranged marriage. Together they share a cab ride. In the middle of their journey in the cab, Rana realizes that her passenger Adineh is transgender, and is planning on having an operation. For Rana, comprehending and accepting such reality is difficult and equal to surpassing all she believes in and traditions she values. Together they forge an unlikely friendship rooted in their newfound independence. Cast * Homayoun Ershadi as Pedar * Shay ...
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Manijeh Hekmat
Manijeh Hekmat ( fa, منیژه حکمت) is an Iranian film director. Born on 23 March 1962 in Arak, Iran, she has worked since 1980 as an assistant director and production designer in over 25 films. She directed her first feature film ''Women's Prison'' (''Zendān-e Zanān'') in 2002. This film has been shown at over 80 international film festivals and has received seven prizes. ''Three Women'' (''Seh Zan'') is Hekmat's second feature film made in 2007. Hekmat has produced five noted films which include the award-winning feature films ''The Girl in the Sneakers'' and ''A Bunch of Grass'', the latter a German-produced film made in the Iranian Kurdistan. In her 2018 movie, The Old Road, Hekmat addressed the social problem of violence against women. Hekmat is married to the film director Jamshid Āhangarāni. Their daughter, Pegāh Āhangarāni, is a film actress. Filmography * 2002: ''Women's Prison (Zendān-e Zanān)'': Writer, director, producer * 2004: ''The Wall'': Direc ...
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