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Mahmoud Kalari (Persian: محمود کلاری; born in Tehran) is an Iranian cinematographer, screenwriter, film director, and photographer who has worked with number of renowned Iranian directors such as Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, Asghar Farhadi, and Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
After completing photography courses in the United States, he held his first photo exhibition titled "Visit with People Around Us" at Tehran University in 1976. A few years later he was employed by the Paris-based Sigma Photo News Agency and worked for them for four years. In 1980, he was ranked one of the '15 Best Photographers of the Year' by Time Magazine, and his photos could be seen in French, German, and American magazines. Kalari moved back to Iran and from 1982 to 1984 worked as the supervisor of the Tehran National TV Photography Unit.
Kalari started his film career in 1984 as the cinematographer of Jadehay sard[1] (1985) (Frosty Roads) for which he won the Best Cinematography award at Tehran's Fajr International Film Festival. He has shot more than 65 films since then, including some of the most critically acclaimed and talked about movies in Iran and internationally. Among those are: Sorb[2] (1988) (winner of the best cinematography), Reyhaneh[3] (1995) (screened at San Sebastián International Film Festival), Time of Love (1990) (filmed in Turkey and screened at the Cannes Film Festival), From Karkheh to Rein (1990) (filmed in Germany and screened at the Hamburg and Mannheim Film Festivals), Sara (1992) (screened at the San Sebastián, New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago Film Festivals), Salaam Cinema (1995) (screened at the Montréal, Toronto, Los Angeles, New York, and Cannes Film Festivals), Gabbeh (1996) (screened at Cannes, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Los Angeles and 21 other International Film Festivals around the world, winner of Best Cinematography at Fajr International Film Festival and winner of Fujifilm Motion Picture Award), Leila (1997) (screened at 7 international film festivals and the winner of the best cinematography at Fajr Film Festival), Derakhte Golabi[4] (1998) (winner of Silver Hugo at Chicago Film Festival and chosen as the Best Motion Picture Photography by the international jury of the Fajr Film Festival), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) for which Kalari received nominations for Best Cinematography in the Main Competition of Plus CAMEIMAGE International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, and Offside (2006) (screened at the Berlin, New York, and AFI Film Festivals).
Kalari's directorial debut was Abe-O Aftaab (1997) on which he was also the writer and cinematographer. It was screened at the Montreal and Chicago Film Festivals and won the Best Film award at Argentina's Mardel Plata Film Festival.
Most Popular Mahmoud Kalari Trailers
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11 August 2005
Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France.
01 January 2006
This documentary looks at different aspects of the life of Bahman Farmanara, the well known Iranian film director and producer.
04 May 2005
Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers.
15 February 2011
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
25 March 2005
A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband who's accompanied by a community-service volunteer who's assisting her.
01 January 2000
An anthology directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Testing Democracy) and Dariush Mehrjui (Dear Cousin is L)
19 March 2017
An 18 years old girl comes to Tehran to take a picture with an 8 Billion Tomans Ferrari, but that will put her in some more troubles.
14 July 1991
Khosrow and Alireza have a simple single life in Tehran. Someday, the carriage of the one year-old Parisa, which was abandoned at the downhill of a park, happens to stop in front of their house after passing a few blocks.
12 September 1999
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative.
17 May 2013
After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie.
19 April 2018
A serial killer is going around killing Iran's most beloved filmmakers. Hasan, a blacklisted filmmaker himself, is depressed and wonders: why isn't he being targeted?
29 October 2020
Saeed is a forty-year-old mason, severe and fanatical in his religious beliefs. One day his wife is accosted by a driver who assumes she is a prostitute.
14 April 1995
Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.
01 September 1999
On the eve of his first show, rock musician Siavash (Ali Ghorbanzadeh) makes a pilgrimage to the grave of his late father, killed during the Iran-Iraq War.
04 August 1998
Hasti, a widowed nurse who has a daughter, marries a paranoid wealthy man.
15 November 2006
The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years.
26 June 1996
An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh, while bickering gently with each other.
20 April 2011
The uneasy relationship between a mother and daughter is made all the more turbulent by drug abuse ib
14 May 1999
This film tells the story of a semi modern Iranian couple, who are trying to fight the old beliefs and old generation.
01 September 2016
Documentary about Film magazine. Film (Persian: فیلم) is an Iranian film review magazine published for more than 40 years (founded in 1982).
09 April 1997
A semi-autobiographical account of an incident in Makhmalbaf's life when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally.
29 July 2004
The story of four soldiers who on a Friday go to the city with their commander. But this Friday is different and brings many troubles for them which changes them forever.
05 December 2018
A rich family are deciding to immigrate to the USA but the son of the family Manuchehr is plotting to take the money for himself instead and ruins their plan for migration.
21 May 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.
06 September 2013
A group of students travel to a remote region to participate in a kite-flying event. Next to their camp by the lakeside, they find a restaurant with cooks that treat the students with suspicion.
01 April 1992
A group of Iranian classical musicians in the Ghajar era try to release their first record, which takes them on a journey to France.
01 April 2009
The film tells the story of a coffee shop that has regular customers and this coffee shop is run by a young man.
22 March 1996
A man who is a news reporter is going to Germany from America to meet his son who is living there. There he tells his son that he is divorced now.
18 April 2009
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami.
01 April 2006
A scientist has to face many hurdles to be able to continue his work.
04 July 2016
Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report dives into the artistic world of Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui. The film offers critical interpretations of his works from cinema experts, enriched with personal anecdotes from his peers.
18 October 1998
Mahmoud is suffering from writer's block and he is unable to continue the book he is currently working upon.
01 February 1993
Reza and Sadegh-Khan are old friends who are engaged in shady deeds. The next day after his wedding, Reza is arrested hauling the dead body of one of his friends.
26 May 2006
During the 2006 World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Bahrain, numerous young women are caught and rounded up for dressing as men so they could gain access to the game.
06 October 2017
Arjang, A 50-year old man, has loved Roya from his childhood years but he has failed to marry her due to some reasons.
09 April 2013
Piano teacher Roya (Mahnaz Afshar) realizes that her marriage to Ali is in a deadlock when she discovers some of her husband's secrets.
01 February 1989
Tehran, 1948. A young Jewish couple, Danial and his wife Munes, decide to immigrate to the recently founded state of Israel.
23 August 2003
A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve �
20 February 2018
It’s 1988 and, at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed relentlessly. The days that pass are full of foreboding, and yet, love, affection, hope and life itself manage to sweep away the fear of death from those surrounded by it.
05 May 2004
An old Iranian man disappears while searching for a friend who's been dead ten years, so his agitated daughter enlists her estranged husband to look for him; the husband puts his foot down at first but soon finds himself cruising the streets of Tehran with his best friend, searching for the old rascal and cursing all the way.
31 December 1990
The film progresses along two distinct but interwoven series of events. The first series involves young members of a family who have gathered round their old mother and revive their common childhood memories.
04 February 1987
When a British officer is found dead on a pipeline, tensions rise between a local tribe and authorities.
31 December 2022
Forough Farrokhzad, one of Iran's greatest modern poets, provoked uproar by daring to write of female sensuality in the face of society's traditional values.
22 June 2014
A drunken, boorish general tyrannises his wife and his maid. When the wife discovers that her husband and the maid are having an affair, she turns the maid out of the house, little realising that the young woman is pregnant with the general's child.
03 September 2025
7-year-old Atta is taken to a fortune teller to identify the thief of her aunt's gold during a ceremony.
11 February 2016
A government bodyguard protects a politician from a suicide bomber, and then begins to question his dedication to his job.
01 February 1991
Three episodes, all with relatively similar plots about a love triangle between a woman and two men.
11 January 2007
After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born.
03 February 1993
Sara is the perfect young housewife. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who works for the funds.
20 January 2006
A political allegory on four middle-class guys who pile into their car for a ski weekend. A brief stop at a picturesque vista leads to their chance discovery of a prominent rock formation it seems would be oh so easy to tip over, but.
06 February 2001
An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner.
01 February 2001
Ali Mashreghi is a writer whose wife has been murdered after the night of his bitter fight with his wife.
30 September 1992
Ravaged physically and psychologically by the war, sergeant Rostam Darre Kalaye is retired to go back to his family in the northern part of Iran.
01 September 2010
An engineer starts to have feelings for a girl named Terme which come to his office for decorating till a young photographer come to Terme's life.
01 February 2010
Negar is a married woman who works at a musical company. When she is given an assignment to collaborate with an Iranian expat Orchestra leader, she.
12 May 2022
Ahmad is a psychiatrist, believing in the treatment of the soul with the medicine in a positivistic and laboratorial way.
01 April 2002
Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man.
15 June 2021
The arrival of a German tracking dog at the customs pier, which is by no means negotiable, has disrupted the order of the city.
25 July 1997
For his directorial and writing debut, cinematographer Mahmoud Kalari turns to his most familiar subject: filmmaking.
