WNarges Abyar is an Iranian film director, author and screenwriter, best known for directing Track 143, Breath, and When the Moon Was Full. The film Track 143 is adapted from Abyar's novel titled The Third Eye narrating the story of a woman and her son during the time of war. Her films sensitively picture the sufferings of women and children caused by the society, war or radicalism.
WMohammad Ali Bashe Ahangar is an Iranian director and screenwriter.
WMania Akbari is an Iranian filmmaker, artist, writer and actress whose works explore women's rights, marriage, sexual identity, disease and body image. Her style, in contrast to the long tradition of melodrama in Iranian cinema, is rooted in the visual arts and autobiography. Because of the taboo themes frankly discussed in her films and her opposition to censorship, she is considered one of the most controversial filmmakers in Iran. As an actress, she is probably best known for playing the lead role in Abbas Kiarostami's Ten (2002).
WAramais Vardani Hovsepian, known as Arman Hovsepian was an Iranian Armenian actor.
WRakhshān Banietemad is an internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian film director and screenwriter who is widely considered a premier female director and her films have been praised at international festivals as well as being popular with Iranian critics and audiences. Her title as "First Lady of Iranian Cinema" is not only a reference to her prominence as a filmmaker, but also connotes her social role of merging politics and family in her work.
WSiddiq Barmak is an Afghan film director and producer. In 2004, Barmak won Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes for his first feature film, Osama. He received an M.A degree in cinema direction from the Moscow Film Institute (VGIK) in 1987.
WBahrām Beyzāêi is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and ostād ("master") of Persian letters, arts and Iranian studies.
WPourān Derakh'shandeh is an Iranian film director, producer, screen writer, and researcher.
WEsmael Barari ;, is an Iranian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, film editor and film producer. He is director of World Iranian Film Center and a member of The Union of Iranian Cinema Producers and a member of international jury of Mostra Valencia Film Festival-2007.
WMitra Farahani is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and painter who currently lives in Paris.
WEbrahim Forouzesh is an Iranian film director, and a former manager of the cinema department at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (1971-1978) where he oversaw the production of many films, shorts, features and animations. He has collaborated with Ali Akbar Sadeghi and Abbas Kiarostami. His second movie The Jar (خمره) won the Golden Leopard for the best Movie at Locarno Film Festival.
WBehrouz Gharibpour is an Iranian theatre director and pioneer of traditional Persian puppet theatre.
WAbolfazl Jalili is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He belongs to the Iranian new wave movement.
WKeywan Karimi is an Iranian independent filmmaker of Kurdish origin. He graduated with ad degree communication studies form the Faculty of Social Sciences University of Tehran. Karimi began his work with a series of short documentary films which were a critique of human life in contemporary Iran. He was sentenced to six years in prison and 223 lashes because of the content of his films.
WNosrat Karimi was an Iranian actor, director, make-up artist, professor, scriptwriter, and sculptor. His career spanned six decades. He was perhaps best known for his role as Agha Joon in My Uncle Napoleon and The Carriage Driver.
WSamuel Khachikian was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, author, and film editor of Armenian descent. He was one of the most influential figures of Iranian cinema and was nicknamed "Iran's Hitchcock".
WAbbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–1994), Close-Up (1990), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Taste of Cherry (1997), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. In later works, Certified Copy (2010) and Like Someone in Love (2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively. His films Where Is the Friend's Home?, Close-Up, and The Wind Will Carry Us were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture. Close-Up was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial Sight & Sound poll conducted in 2012.
WAli Lotfi is an Iranian film director, film producer, and Animator.
WMajid Majidi is an Iranian film director, producer, and screenwriter, who started his film career as an actor. In his films, Majidi has touched on many themes and genres and has won numerous international awards.
WMohsen Makhmalbaf is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards and been a juror in more than 15 major film festivals. His award-winning films include Kandahar; his latest documentary is The Gardener and latest feature The President.
WSamira Makhmalbaf is an Iranian filmmaker and script writer. She is the daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film director and writer. Samira Makhmalbaf is considered to be part of the Iranian New Wave.
WDariush Mehrju'i is an Iranian director, screenwriter, producer, film editor and a member of the Iranian Academy of the Arts.
WMohsen Moeini is an Iranian author and director. His work mainly centers around his philosophical and historical preoccupations. As well as directing his own plays, he has directed plays by foreign authors such as Peter Handke and Rainer Werner Fassbinder whose works he staged in Iran for the first time. He has directed the first play to be staged in the Milad Tower.
WBahman Motamedian is an Iranian film maker, photographer, writer and script writer. He was born in Tehran, Iran. Motamedian belongs to the so-called "new wave" of Iranian cinema. Bahman Motamedian is also has been involved in over twenty works, including shorts film, documentaries film, video art and theater. Motamedian made his first feature film, titled "Khastegi" in 2008. "Khastegi" was shown in the official selection of 65th Venice International Film Festival as the "surprise film" in 2008.
WAmir Naderi is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and photographer. He is best known for The Runner and Vegas: Based on a True Story.
WMohammad Nourizad, born 10 December 1952) is an Iranian filmmaker, activist, and former journalist for the conservative daily Kayhan. He was arrested in April 2010 after writing a letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, urging him to apologize to the nation for the bloody crackdown on the opposition after the disputed 2009 June presidential elections. He was again arrested in August 2019, for protesting at another dissident's trial, and convicted in August 2020.
WSaeed Orokzai is an Afghani filmmaker known for the 1979 film Mardara Qawl Ast.
WJafar Panâhi is an Iranian film director, of Azerbaijani descent, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly associated with the Iranian New Wave film movement. After several years of making short films and working as an assistant director for fellow Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, Panahi achieved international recognition with his feature film debut, The White Balloon (1995). The film won the Caméra d'Or at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, the first major award an Iranian film won at Cannes.
WRafi Pitts is an Iranian film director.
WHossein Rajabian is an Iranian filmmaker, writer and photographer who was imprisoned in 2015 on charges related to his filmmaking.
WSaman Salur is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He graduated from Soore University with a Bachelor of Film and Television in Directing.
WHossein Shahabi is an Iranian film director, screenwriter and film producer He belongs to the third generation of Iranian New Wave who is making his first feature film and was appreciated and praised by critics and became famous internationally.
WSohrab Shaheed Salles or Sohrab Shahid-Saless was an Iranian film director and screenwriter and one of the most celebrated figures in Iranian cinema in the 20th century. After 1976 he worked in the cinema of Germany and was an important component of the film diaspora working in the German industry.
WHadi Shariati is an Iranian director and screenwriter. He received the Best Screenplay Award from the International Film Festival for Children and Youth for his film Inside the Waves. He has won awards from the Queen Palm International Film Festival and LAKECITY International Film Festival for his documentary film Sarah which is about his daughter who is not able to see.
WIsa Vandi is an Iranian-Swedish film producer, director, editor and screenwriter. He emigrated from Iran in 1989, now living and working in Sweden.
WHassan Yektapanah is an Iranian (Persian) filmmaker and screenwriter.