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Rakhshan Banietemad

Rakhshan Banietemad

Rakhshan Banietemad is a director who was born in 1954 in Tehran, Iran. She started her career in cinema and starred as a director in “Kharej az Mahdoodeh” in 1987. She has won a lot of awards such as the Crystal Simorgh of Best Director for “Narges”, Best Script Award and Best Second Role Actress for “The Blue-Veiled”, the Crystal Simorgh of Best Script for “The May Lady” from Fajr Film Festival. Her other activities are “Mainline” and “Tales”.

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Movies Made By Rakhshan Banietemad (24)

Narratives ad hominem (2023)

The emergence of the Coronavirus disease in late 2019 and its rapid spread throughout the world in 2020 made an indelible impact upon countless lives, transforming so many in a multitude of ways. This profoundly personal narrative details the efforts of a ...

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Touran khanom (2018)

Touran Mirhadi (Khomarloo) is the founder of Farhad School, the Children's Book Council, and the Encyclopedia for Young People. She was also actively involved with close to 20 other institutions dealing with child development and education and supported th ...

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Hey, Humans (2016)

A compassionate portrait of the Chain of Hope charity organisation, which treats underprivileged children from all over Iran. ...

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A Lifetime in an Hour (2015)

This documentary is about Eskandar Firouz, a distinguished Iranian conservationist, and former Director of the Department of the Environment in Iran. ...

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Tales (2014)

Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class society. ...

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See You Tomorrow Elina (2011)

Stories of Iran's past and present intersect in Rakhshan Banietemad's reflective, absorbing and personal portrait of how political life shapes infant's lives. ...

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Mainline (2011)

The uneasy relationship between a mother and daughter is made all the more turbulent by drug abuse in this downbeat drama from Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab ...

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We Are Half of Iran's Population (2009)

Bani-Etemad's documentary short was made during the months before last year's controversial elections in Iran. Filming a diverse coalition of women's rights activists discussing their opinions on pressing contemporary issues, Bani-Etemad asked three of the ...

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Angels of the House of Sun (2009)

Angels in the House of Sun remains one of Rakhshan Banietemad's most articulate critiques of the treatment of women in contemporary Iranian society. Male-on-female violence is an all-too-common occurrence in Iran. It's part of a wider exploration of gende ...

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The Second Home (2008)

Sebastian, a Dutch man, runs a hotel in Yazd. ‌ He is interested in Iran and has made this his second home. ...

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Persian Carpet (2007)

Persian Carpet is an omnibus film produced by Iran's National Carpet Center and Farabi Cinema Foundation where 15 renowned Iranian directors contributed films on the subject of Persian carpet. Carpets are the reflection of the cultural and historical ident ...

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Under the Skin of the City (2005)

Tuba works daily at a grueling textile factory in Iran, returning home every night to deal with the rest of her problematic family, which includes: a pregnant daughter whose husband beats her regularly; a teenage son, who's been getting into trouble due to ...

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Gilaneh (2005)

A mother's courage, hardship, and love, in times of war. In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, Gilane escorts her pregnant daughter, Maygol, from the relative calm of their village, Espili, into war-torn Tehran to search for Maygol's husband, Rahman. The jour ...

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Our Times (2002)

Documentary by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, an Iranian female director. This film portrays two aspects of the Iranian presidential election of 2001. ...

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Tales of an Island (2000)

An anthology directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Testing Democracy) and Dariush Mehrjui (Dear Cousin is Lost) ...

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The May Lady (1998)

Forough Kia is a film-maker who got divorced from her husband many years ago and now is living with her son Maani. She decides to make a documentary about perfect mothers. In order to do so she meets many mothers to chose the perfect mother among them. She ...

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Baran and the Native (1998)

Aboard the top deck of a cruise ship, Baran, a young wealthy girl, notices a native boy who is dancing joyfully to beating drums. Baran arrives at a plush hotel on the mainland, however she seems somewhat disconsolate. Later she finds the native boy again ...

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The Blue-Veiled (1995)

An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to abando ...

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The last meeting with Iran Daftari (1995)

A documentary about life and career of an eighty-year-old Iranian actress, Iran Daftari. ...

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Who Will You Show These Films To? (1992)

A searing documentary about the homeless people and shantytown dwellers of Tehran that has been banned. ...

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Nargess (1992)

A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law. ...

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Canary Yellow (1989)

After spending all his money buying a piece of land that was already sold to someone else, Nasrallah Madadi finds himself in trouble. To solve his money problems, he then decides to be the offender of fraud rather than its victim. Getting himself involved ...

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Foreign Currency (1989)

Morteza Olfat is an ordinary employee who has lots of problems in his life. One day, he happens to find fifty thousand dollars. He says nothing to anyone and tries to exchange the cash. ...

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Off-Limits (1986)

Mohammad Javad Halimi is a simple government's employer who manages after years to buy a house for himself outside the city's limits. But in the second night in his new house a thief is coming to his house. He manages to catch the thief but delivering him ...

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Movies Starring Rakhshan Banietemad (4)

Moonshadow – The Myth of Fahimeh (2025)

This is the story of Fahimeh Akbari, a leading lady in the musical and cultural history of Iran, an exceptional talent whose magical voice and unique style enriched both the folklore and urban musical landscapes of Iran, a pioneer who breathed new life int ...

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Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses (2016)

Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to women and their cinema. Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Mira Nair, Margarethe Von Trotta, Ulrike Ottinger, ...

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Tea Man (2011)

This film is about the interest of a person named Ahmed in cinema. Ahmed has been very interested in cinema since his childhood. He started working in cinema as a teenager because of his interest. Ahmed is currently a famous tea man in Iranian cinema. ...

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A Good Time for Tragedy (2005)

A documentary dealing with the life of Ahmadreza Ahmadi, an Iranian Poet. ...

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