Bahman Farmanara

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Bahman Farmanara (in Persian: بهمن فرمان آرا), Director, Screenwriter, Film Producer, Born 1942, Tehran, Iran. Graduated from the University of Southern California in film directing, started filmmaking with Ghamar Khanum’s House (1972). He was the Head Production of “Film Development Company of Iran” (1974-77), produced Abbas Kiarostami’s first feature The Report (1977), Bahram Bayzai’s The Crow (1977), Khosrow Haritash’s Divine One (1976), Mohammad-Reza Aslani’s Wind and Chess (1976) and Valerio Zurlini’s Desert of the Tartars (1977 co-prod. with Italy and France).

Farmanara went to France and then to Canada in 1980 establishing a distribution company and a film festival for children and young adults in Vancouver. Farmanara returned to Iran in the early 1990s; he made and starred in Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine in 2000 which won several prizes from the Intl. Fajr Film Festival, including The Best Film and The Best Director prizes.

Some of his films:

  • Prince Ehtedjab, 1974
  • The Tall Shadows of the Wind, 1978
  • The House Built on Water, 2001

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