In Brief

Parvīz Kīmiyāvī is a director, screenwriter, and editor. Born in Tehran, Kīmiyāvī studied filmmaking at École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière and Institut des hautes études cinématographique)  IDHEC(  in France. Then he started his career in the field of filmmaking as an assistant director at the French TV channel / O.R.T.F  and thus experienced the making of his first short film titled “Iranian Saint Joan” in France. He returned to Iran in 1968 and in cooperation with the Iranian TV, he started making short films, which are mostly in the genres of experimental and docudrama.

With a background in filmmaking, he is regarded as a prominent member of Iranian New Wave cinema directors and producers alike and is an influential figure of 20^th century Iranian cinema. Kīmiyāvī has directed a total of 18 films, with some of his most notable including works like P mis̱l-i pilīkān (P Like Pelican), (1972), Mughulʹhā (Mongols), (1973), and Bāgh-i sangī (The Garden of Stones), (1976). In 1976, Kīmiyāvī was declared the winner of the Silver Bear at the 26^th Berlin International Film festival for The Garden of Stones (1976) for its directorial approach and the film’s avant-garde form, which integrates fictional techniques into documentary-style formatting. This format employed by Kīmiyāvī in his works interplays between the documented and fictional realities of his films, making his oeuvre an auteur quality.