film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...
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screenwriter
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. He graduated from Soore University with a Bachelor of Film and Television in Directing.
He is known for directing and writing the comedy feature 'A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral' 2006 winning
Golden Leopard
The Golden Leopard () is the top prize at the Locarno International Film Festival, an international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. Directors in the process of getting an international reputation are allowed to ...
and Special Prize of the Jury at
Locarno International Film Festival
The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, ...
Three Continents Festival
The Festival des 3 Continents is an annual film festival held since 1979 in Nantes, France, and is devoted to the cinemas of Asia, and Africa and Latin America. It was founded by Philippe and Alain Jalladeau.Molodist Kiev International Film Festival.
His last movie "We will say Amen" has been banned for 4 years till 2016.
Filmography
* ''The Wind Will Comb Your Tresses'', 2002 (Short Film)
* ''IT’S A SONY'', 2002 (Documentary)
* ''The Guilty'', 2002 (Cinematography)
* ''From Land of Silence'', 2004
* ''A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral'', 2006
* ''Aramesh ba Diazepam 10'', 2005 (Documentary)
* ''Lonely Tune of Tehran'', 2008
* ''Stories on Human Rights'', 2008
* ''Be Hadaf Shelik Kon'', 2011 (Writer)
* ''Thirteen 59'', 2011
* ''We Will Say Amen'', 2012 (New edition has been released on 2016)
* ''Raspberries'', 2013
* ''Puff Puff Pass,'' 2020
* '' Killing a Traitor'', 2022
Golden Leopard
The Golden Leopard () is the top prize at the Locarno International Film Festival, an international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. Directors in the process of getting an international reputation are allowed to ...
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Locarno International Film Festival
The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, ...
2006
* Won Best Film and Director -
Edinburgh International Film Festival
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is a film festival that runs for two weeks in June each year. Established in 1947, it is the world's oldest continually running film festival. EIFF presents both UK and international films (all t ...
2006
* Special Award - Batumi International Art-House Film Festival 2009
See also
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Cinema of Iran
The Cinema of Iran (Persian language, Persian: سینمای ایران), also known as the Cinema of Name of Iran, Persia, refers to the cinema and film industries in Iran which produce a variety of commercial films annually. Iranian art films ha ...
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Fajr International 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. T ...