Shahram Alidi (, born 11 December 1971,

Sanandaj Sanandaj (; ) is a city in the Central District of Sanandaj County, in the Kurdistan province of Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. With a population of 414,069, it is the second largest Kurdish city a ...

Kurdistan Kurdistan (, ; ), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo- cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based. G ...

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 ...

) is an Iranian

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

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, and film producer. He is also a

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicate ...

, and

graphic design Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art that involves creating visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdisciplinary branch of ...

er. Alidi is part of a generation of filmmakers in the

Iranian New Wave Iranian New Wave () refers to a movement in Iranian cinema. It started in 1964 with Hajir Darioush's second film ''Serpent's Skin'', which was based on D.H. Lawrence's '' Lady Chatterley's Lover'' and featured Fakhri Khorvash and Jamshid Mas ...

. These filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue
and allegorical story telling. His credits include the 2009 film

Whisper with the wind ''Whisper With the Wind'' is a 2009 Kurdish drama film written and directed by Shahram Alidi in his first film. Plot In the years of military asphyxia in dictatorial regime of Saddam, in a very bad situation that everything was under the regime's ...

Background

Alidi's first artistic experience was as an

actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

in school theaters. Later he started painting that continued into his late teens, winning many first prizes in the National Arts Competitions before he started studying painting at

Tehran University The University of Tehran (UT) or Tehran University (, ) is a public collegiate university in Iran, and the oldest and most prominent Iranian university located in Tehran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as ...

, Faculty of Fine Arts. Later he graduated in M.A. in Animation Directing in Art University, Cinema and Theater Faculty. He has worked extensively as graphic designer,

interior design Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space. With a keen eye for detail and a Creativity, creative flair, an ...

er, illustrator for children books, Stage designer in theater and cinema, title designer during 1994–7.

Filmography

*Long Feature Film: **2015: Black Horse Memories – Feature – H.D – 90 min **2009: Whisper with the Wind – Feature – 35mm – 77 min *Short Films: **2010: Ode of Mirror – Poetic Fiction – H.D – 12 min **2009: A Rosary – Poetic Fiction – H.D – 10 min **2008: Quatrain of Water – Poetic Fiction – H.D – 12 min **2006: Mountains of Tehran – Documentary – D.V – 20 min **2005: The Breath – Documentary – D.V – 20 min **2003: Dreamless village – Fiction- D.V – 20 min **2003: Button (Dokme)- Fiction- D.V – 13 min **2003: The last uncounted village – Fiction – D.V – 15 min **2000: The Ground is hard, the sky is far – Fiction – Beta cam – 20 min **1999: The Heavenly doors – Documentary – Beta – 15 min **1998: Milk (Shote) – Fiction – Beta – 30 min **1997: Mamli – Fiction/Documentary – 16 mm – 20 min

Events

*Awards for "Whisper with the Wind": **2010: Tromso Film Festival / Golden Don Quixote /Norway **2009: Bratislava Film Festival / Young Academic Student Jury Prize /Slovakia, Pessac International Historic Film Festival/ Prize of Academic Jury/France, Amazon Film Festival / Special Jury Award/Brazil,

Mumbai International Film Festival The Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films (MIFF) is a festival organized in the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) by the Films Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Ministry of Infor ...

/Prize of Mumbai Young Critics Award/India. **Cannes International Film Festival/France/Critic Weeks Section/ Competitor for Golden Camera: ***The Best Feature Film's ACID support ***Prize of View of Youth ***Prize of Young European Critics Shahram alidi

*Awards of "The last uncounted village": **The first Sony company Festival /the best film /Iran /2002. **Avanca Festival /the best film /Portugal /2003. **Busan Festival / Different cinema of Asia / South Korea / 2003. **Tehran short film Festival /the best film, A level / Iran / 2003. **D’ournise Festival / Kurdistan cinema /France / 2003. **Clermont – Ferrand /Elected by viewers /France /2003. **Aroca Festival / the best scenario (script) Portugal /2004. **Soleymanieh Festival /special prize by Jury /Iraq/2004. **Imago Festival /Elected by viewers/Portugal /2004. **Hamburg Festival /Francois O’dae Prize /Germany / 2004. **Torino Festival /Special Prize by Jury /Italy /2004. *Awards for "Black Horse Memories": ** 20th Busan International Film Festival/ South Korea. 1 – 10 October/ 2015. ** 2nd Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival/ Australia. 19–29 November 2015. ** 9th Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Brisbane/ Australia. 26 November/ 2015. ** 15th !f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival/ Turkey/ 18–28 February/ 2016/"!f Inspired Competition" section ** 4th Duhok International Film Festival/ Kurdistan Region/ Iraq. 9–16 September/ 2016. **Slemani International Film Festival/ Kurdistan Region, Iraq/ 1–4 October/ 2016 "Competition" **Winner of: *Special Jury Prize* ** 9th Kurdish Filmdays "Sercavan" Vienna, Austria/ 24 – 27 November/ 2016.

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