Abdolreza Kahani
Abdolreza Kahani is an Iranian filmmaker. He made his first short film, The Smile in 1988. He made his first feature film, Dance with the Moon in 2003. In 2009, Kahani’s film Twenty won the Special Jury Prize and the Prize of Ecumenical Jury at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Kamal Tabrizi
Kamal Tabrizi is an Iranian film director. He was born in Tehran, with his parents having moved there from Tabriz. A newly released picture shows that he was as a photographer and reporter among the 1979 hostage takers at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
Soheil Beiraghi
Soheil Beiraghi is an Iranian independent film director, screenwriter and producer. He has directed the award-winning films I, Cold Sweat and Popular. He started out on his filmmaking career in 2005 as an assistant director in a number of cinematic productions.
Abbas Amini
Abbas AMINI (I983, Iran) is a screenwriter and filmmaker who began making short films when he was just 13. Amini initially started his career as an assistant director, before directing his first film Valderrama in 2016, which screened at Berlinale and was nominated for Best Feature Film in the Generation section. Amini has also been a volunteer with Association for the Protection of Child Labourers for more than a decade. His work has often covered the effects of the conflict between Iran and Iraq, an issue he’s explored in his latest film Endless Borders (2023).
Jamshid Mahmoudi
Jamshid Mahmoudi is an Afghan film director, screenwriter, producer and editor. Mahmoudi is best known for his works A Few Cubic Meters of Love, Rona, Azim’s Mother, and The Lion Skin. In 2023, he earned two Hafez Awards for The Lion Skin.
Pooya Badkoobeh
Pooya Badkoobeh is known for Dressage (2018), Ticket to Paradise (2020) and Gonjeshk (2009).
Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panâhi is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly associated with the Iranian New Wave film movement.
Reza Attaran
Reza Attaran (Persian: رضا عطاران; born May 10, 1968) is an Iranian actor, director, screenwriter and singer. He has received various accolades, including three Crystal Simorgh, five Hafez Awards, an Iran Cinema Celebration Award and three Iran’s Film Critics and Writers Association Awards.