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ʿAlī Hātamī
In Brief A prominent filmmaker and screenwriter associated with the Iranian New Wave movement, he…
ʿAbbās Kiyārustamī
In Brief Active 1962–2016. One of the most prominent and internationally recognized figures of Iranian…
Tracing the Tooba Character in Rakhshan Banietemad’s Cinema
Drawn out by Rakhshan Banietemad in 1985, the role of Tuba, the filmmaker’s most iconic…
The night It Rained
In the village of Lamelang near the northern city of Gorgan, a schoolboy is said…
The International Reception of Iranian cinema
Introduction Iranian cinema entered the European film festival scene in the 1960s.1Roy Armes, Third World Filmmaking…
Tehran in Iranian Post-Revolutionary Films
Introduction Cities and urban spaces have always provided a leading geographical platform for cinematic narratives….
Tahmīnah Mīlānī
In Brief Mīlānī is one of Iran’s most prominent female filmmakers, working primarily in the…
Silent Cinema
To research silent cinema in Iran is to reconsider what aspects of cinema history, broadly…
Rakhshān Banī Iʿtimād
In Brief Rakhshān Banī Iʿtimād is an Iranian director, screenwriter and producer who has directed…
Parvīz Kīmiyāvī
In Brief Parvīz Kīmiyāvī is a director, screenwriter, and editor. Born in Tehran, Kīmiyāvī studied…
Mahdī Mīs̱āqiyyah
In Brief Mahdī Mīs̱āqiyyah (born in Tehran, 1927–1989) was an Iranian movie producer. Mīs̱āqiyyah started…
Jaʿfar Panāhī
In Brief Jaʿfar Panāhī (b. 1960) is an Iranian director, screenwriter, and editor. His collaboration…
Iranian Horror Cinema
… the shadow (sayah) has an importance in the non-material world (ghayr-i madi)… etymologically, the…
Internet Cinema: A Cinema of Embodied Protest
This article is about an emergent form of cinema in whose production and propagation most…
Ibrāhīm Gulistān
In Brief Gulistān is an Iranian filmmaker, the founder of the Golistān Films, and a…
Hamoun
Hamid Hamoun, a middle-aged Iranian sales agent and writer/intellectual in a conflicting relationship with his…
Farrukh Ghaffārī
In Brief (Farrukh Ghaffārī 25 February 1921 – 17 December 2006) was an Iranian film…
Dāryūsh Mihrjūyi
In Brief Dāriyush Mihrjūyi (born in Tehran, 8 December 1939) is an Iranian director and…
Bahrām Bayzāyi
In Brief Iranian filmmaker, playwright, screenwriter, and stage director. A popular and critically acclaimed filmmaker…
Bachchah’hā-yi āsmān
In Brief Bachchah’hā-yi āsmān (Children of Heaven), (1996), is an Iranian drama written and directed…
Aṣghar Farhādī
In Brief Aṣghar Farhādī (born in Khumaynīʹshahr, Isfahan, in 1972) – who has a bachelor’s…