Abolfazl Jalili (Persian: ابوالفضل جلیلی , born 1957 in Saveh, Iran) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director. He belongs to the Iranian new wave movement. Jalili studied directing at the Iranian College of Dramatic Arts, then worked for national television (IRIB), where he produced several children's films. His 'Det' Means Girl (1994) won prizes in Venice film festival and Nantes. He was one of Rotterdam's Film Makers in Focus in 1999.
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04 May 2005
Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers.
31 January 2025
In a Tehran youth detention centre, detainees have the right to short furloughs, as long as their family provides sufficient bail to guarantee their return.
02 June 1999
Ghesse Haye Kish was originally produced as a six-episode omnibus film with finances from investors on the Island of Kish in the Persian Gulf, which is a free zone belonging to Iran.
01 January 2007
A young man named Shamsadin (Mehdi Moradi) receives the title of Hafez, bestowed only on those who memorize the Koran, and is sent to teach it to Nabat (Aso), the overseas-raised daughter of a religious leader.
06 August 1998
A young Iranian boy makes friends with a young girl of the same age against a backdrop of the humdrum daily existence of rural workers.
01 February 2001
Acclaimed director Abolfazl Jalili offers a compassionate story of the young Afghan refugee who lives illegally in Iran.
01 April 1985
During the Iran-Iraq war an orphan boy is taken in by an old man who lives in a cabin deep in the forest.
25 June 1999
Don is the story of a young boy desperate to find work to help support his family and his heroin-addict parents.
09 November 2005
Seventeen-year-old Navid travels from his small village to a port city, looking a job as a teacher of Persian literature.
05 February 1994
This award-winning drama from Iran stars Hossein Saki as Shuan, a young man who supports himself as a cook and a security guard.
01 April 1991
An Iranian film director (played by Jalili himself) embarks on casting for a new project. He believes he has found his lead in Samad Khani, a boy working at a bakery, whose face inspires him.
11 June 2021
Emkan is a 17-year-old teenager who has not seen his father for many years and his mother works late night in a factory.
28 September 2013
Darvag tells the tale of a young university student that gets into a lot of trouble for while striving for his continued subsistence.
01 February 1985
A simple worker of the train station is arrested and send to Tehran because of his fighting against Shah's regime.
01 January 1987
Young Hamed, arrested for handing out political tracts banned by the Islamic Republic, finds himself in a place of great suffering, in which illiterate and penniless orphans wash floors and sell their own blood.
