Ramin Farahani is an
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 nort ...
ian-
Dutch
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filmmaker.
Born in 1969 in
Tehran
Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...
, Farahani started with photography short films in 1987, and studied film directing at the Cinema and Theater department of the
Tehran University of Art
Iran University of Art (, ''Daneshgah-e Honar-e Iran'') (former "Tehran University of Art and formally Art Academic Complex (1979-1991)), is the largest art university in Iran
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between 1989 and 1993.
In 1994, he moved to the
Netherlands
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where he studied at the
Dutch Film and Television Academy of
Amsterdam
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from 1997 to 1999.
After 12 years in the Netherlands as a minority, he returned to Iran to document the Jewish communities there, spending three months in 2002 working within the main Jewish communities of Iran to document their lives.
His
documentary film
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''
Jews of Iran'' was released in 2005.
He is now translating books and working on new film projects.
References
External links
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Ramin Farahani's official weblog
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1969 births
Date of birth missing (living people)
Iranian documentary filmmakers
Living people
Mass media people from Amsterdam
Film people from Tehran
Tehran University of Art alumni