1. Samira Makhmalbaf (1980)

Iranian Film Director

One of the most influential directors of the Iranian New Wave movement whose work included At Five in the Afternoon and Blackboards.

2. Mehran Modiri (1967)

Iranian Film Director

Movie actor who was named by Newsweek as one of the 20 people who dominate power and public discourse in Iran in 2009. He has over 2.2 million followers on her mehranmodiri...

3. Jamil Rostami (1971)

Iranian Film Director

Jamil Rostami born 1971 in Sanandaj Kurdistan Province Iran) is an Iranian film director of Kurdish origin. In 2002 he made his first short film titled The Trouble of Being...

4. Maryam Keshavarz (1975)

Iranian Film Director

Maryam Keshavarz is an Iranian-American filmmaker best known for her 2011 film Circumstance distributed by Participant Media and Roadside Attractions which won the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival.

5. Mitra Farahani (1975)

Iranian Film Director

Mitra Farahani is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and painter who lives in Paris. She was arrested on June 17 2009 by the Iranian government on her arrival in Tehran...

6. Mahnaz Mohammadi (1975)

Iranian Film Director

Mahnaz Mohammadi is an Iranian filmmaker and women's rights activist. Mahnaz Mohammadi wrote and directed her first film in 2003 Women Without Shadows produced by Amir Samavati. This film depicting...

7. Hana Makhmalbaf (1988)

Iranian Film Director

Hana Makhmalbaf is an Iranian filmmaker. She is the younger sister of filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf and daughter of filmmakers Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Marzieh Makhmalbaf.

8. Alireza Davood Nejad (Unknow)

Iranian Film Director

Alireza Davood Nejad is an Iranian film director. His son is the TV actor Reza Davood Nejad.

9. Sadaf Foroughi (1976)

Iranian Film Director

Sadaf Foroughi is an Iranian film maker video artist and film editor. Foroughi has a bachelor degree in French literature. After receiving her master degree in film studies from...

10. Rasul Sadr Ameli (Unknow)

Iranian Film Director

Rasool Sadr Ameli is an Iranian film director screenwriter and film producer. He made his directorial debut The Liberation in 1982 after a decade of working in journalism. In nearly...

11. Siamak Shayeghi (Unknow)

Iranian Film Director

Siamak Shayeghi (Persian: سیامک شایقی ‎ born 1954 in Abadan Iran is an Iranian film director and film producer. Graduated in Cinema and Television he started his career as film...

12. Iraj Tahmasb (Unknow)

Iranian Film Director

Iraj Tahmasb is an Iranian actor screenwriter and director of TV series and films. He is best known for co-creating of popular puppet character Kolah Ghermezi.

13. Majid Majidi (1959)

Iranian Film Director

Majid Majidi is an Iranian film director film producer and screenwriter. Majidi's films have touched on many themes and genres and he has won many international awards.

14. Pouran Derakhshandeh (1951)

Iranian Film Director

Pourān Derakh'shandeh is an Iranian film director producer screen writer and researcher. Derakh'shandeh graduated in film directing in 1975 from Advanced School of Television and Cinema in Tehran. She...

15. Rasoul Mollagholipour (Unknow)

Iranian Film Director

Rasoul Mollagholipour was an Iranian film director screenwriter and cinematographer. He was an iconic figure of Iranian cinema.

16. Abolfazl Attar (1968)

Iranian Film Director

Mirza Abolfazl Attar. Z Born September 23 1968 in Mashhad Razavi Khorasan Province Iran is an Iranian Film director Screenwriter & Film editor

17. Nahid Persson Sarvestani (1960)

Iranian Film Director

Nahid Persson Sarvestani is an award-winning Iranian-Swedish filmmaker and director. Her most famous documentary films are Prostitution Behind the Veil My Mother - A Persian Princess The End of Exile...

18. Jafar Panahi (1960)

Iranian Film Director

Jafar Panahi is an Iranian film director screenwriter and film editor commonly identified with the Iranian New Wave film movement. After several years of making short films and working as...

19. Tahmineh Milani (1960)

Iranian Film Director

Tahmineh Milāni is an Iranian film director screenwriter and producer.

20. Abolfazl Jalili (1957)

Iranian Film Director

Abolfazl Jalili is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director. He belongs to Iranian new wave movement. Jalili studied directing at the Iranian College of Dramatic Arts then worked for national...

21. Bahman Ghobadi (1969)

Iranian Film Director

Bahman Ghobadi is an Iranian film director of Kurdish ethnicity. He was born on February 1 1969 in Baneh Kurdistan Province. Ghobadi belongs to the new wave of Iranian cinema.

22. Kiarash Anvari (1977)

Iranian Film Director

Kiarash Anvari is an Iranian film maker video artist and script writer. Anvari received his BA in film making from Sooreh Higher Education Institute in Tehran. In 1998 he...

23. Ali Karim (1977)

Iranian Film Director

Ali Karim is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He was born in Tehran Iran.

24. Bahman Kiarostami (1978)

Iranian Film Director

Bahman Kiarostami is an Iranian film director cinematographer film editor film producer and translator son of the critically acclaimed Abbas Kiarostami. In 1996 he made his first film Morteza...

25. Mohammad Farokhmanesh (1971)

Iranian Film Director

Mohammad Farokhmanesh is a Gerd Ruge-Prize winning Iranian film director scriptwriter and producer residing in Germany.

26. Hossein Martin Fazeli (1964)

Iranian Film Director

Hossein Martin Fazeli a. k. a. Naanaam is an Iranian Canadian film director and poet. His films have won 39 international awards and been broadcast on networks such as...

27. Forough Farrokhzad (1935)

Iranian Film Director

ugh Farrokhzad was an Iranian poet and film director. Forugh Farrokhzad is arguably one of Iran's most influential female poets of the twentieth century. She was a controversial modernist poet...

28. Abdolhossein Sepanta (1907)

Iranian Film Director

Abdolhossein Sepanta was a noted Iranian film director and producer. He made the earliest sound films in the Persian language. He was also a writer and journalist and promotor of...

29. Granaz Moussavi (1974)

Iranian Film Director

Granaz Moussavi is an Iranian-Australian contemporary poet film director and screen writer. She is primarily renowned for her avant-garde poetry in the 90s. Her award winning debut feature film My...

30. Mona Zandi Haghighi (1972)

Iranian Film Director

Mona Zandi is an Iranian film directorMona Zandi was an assistant to renowned Persian film director

31. Mehdi Naderi (1973)

Iranian Film Director

Mehdī Nāderī is an Iranian film director. He started directing theater in 1988. He has directed documentaries and fiction films. He is also a producer scriptwriter advisor and editor. His...

32. Fariborz Kamkari (1981)

Iranian Film Director

borz Kamkari is a Kurdish Iranian film director and producer. Kamkari was born in 1981 in Rome Italy and studied cinema and theater in Tehran Iran. He has written several...

33. Parviz Shahbazi (1962)

Iranian Film Director

Parviz Shahbazi is an Iranian filmmaker.

34. Mohammad Sadri (1963)

Iranian Film Director

Mohammad Sadri is an Iranian film director writer film producer and cinematographer.

35. Cyrus Kar (1961)

Iranian Film Director

Cyrus Kar is an Iranian-born American film director part-time professor at the University of Phoenix and now-vindicated alleged terrorist who was captured by United States forces in Iraq on May...

36. Ebrahim Hatamikia (1961)

Iranian Film Director

Ebrahim Hatamikia is an Iranian filmmaker.