KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS (ʿAbbās Kiārostami; b. Tehran, 22 June 1940; d. Paris, 4 July 2016; Figure 1), Iranian filmmaker, photographer, poet,…

KHACHIKIAN, Samuel (Sāmuʾel Ḵāčikiān), Iranian filmmaker (b. 20 October 1923, Tabriz; d. 21 October 2001, Tehran; FIGURE 1). He was…

CINEMA ii. Feature Films  Feature-film production in Persia spans six decades and can be divided into four distinct periods, each…

CINEMA iv. Film Censorship Persian cinema has been subject from its beginnings to official censorship responding to the concerns of…

ḤĀTAMI, ʿALI, eminent Iranian scriptwriter and film director (b. Tehran, 1944; d. Tehran, 1996; Figure 1). Born to a typesetter…

FARDIN, Moḥammad-ʿAli (b. Tehran, 6 April 1930; d. Tehran, 7 April 2000), a popular Iranian actor (FIGURE 1). Born and…