Zar Amir Ebrahimi

Zar Amir Ebrahimi

Birthday: 1981-07-09

Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran

Biography: Zar Amir Ebrahimi (born Zahra Amir Ebrahimi) is an Iranian-French actress, producer and director. She is known for her role in television series Nargess, and for her performance as journalist Rahimi in the crime-thriller Holy Spider, which won her the Best Actress award at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

Movies

My Worst Enemy
My Worst Enemy

Mojtaba, Hamzeh, Zar are among other individuals who have been thrown into prison and ideologically ...

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Tatami
Tatami

Iranian female judokas Leila and her coach Maryam, travel to the Judo World Championship, intent on ...

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Seven Winters in Tehran
Seven Winters in Tehran

After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-...

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Reading Lolita in Tehran
Reading Lolita in Tehran

As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the ...

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Honor of Persia
Honor of Persia

The film follows Zar Amir Ebrahimi's last year in Iran, when she was forced to flee the country fear...

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Inside the Iranian Uprising
Inside the Iranian Uprising

In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody. She had been ar...

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Beach Flags
Beach Flags

Vida is a young Iranian lifeguard swimmer. Popular in her team, she is determined to fight in order ...

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Shayda
Shayda

Shayda, a young Iranian woman living in Australia, finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her 6-year...

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Holy Spider
Holy Spider

A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigat...

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The Vanishing
The Vanishing

Reda seemingly has a life of privilege in Algiers, in his late twenties still living at the family h...

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Please Rise
Please Rise

A short political drama about a committee that is formed to choose a new national anthem after a fic...

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White Paradise
White Paradise

Samuel, a widower, is taking care of his 7-year-old daughter alone. Overwhelmed and stressed out, he...

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Adopt a Daddy
Adopt a Daddy

Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, B...

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Satisfaction
Satisfaction

Set against the stunning Greek isles, Satisfaction is a nuanced psychological drama that unravels th...

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In the Land of Arto
In the Land of Arto

Céline arrives in Armenia for the first time to legalize the death of Arto, her husband. She discove...

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Tehran Taboo
Tehran Taboo

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic so...

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Bride Price vs. Democracy
Bride Price vs. Democracy

Omid and Vida grew up as friends in Iran. Now Omid lives in Sweden since many years while Vida still...

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Tomorrow We Are Free
Tomorrow We Are Free

Iran 1979. The Islamic Revolution is shaking up the country. Dissident Omid, who lived for several y...

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Tide
Tide

One night. On the deserted ski slopes, the nocturnal outing of the snow-grooming machines is being p...

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The Great Leap
The Great Leap

A fantasy, road- movie regarding Man and Maryam that embark on an adventure road trip to find their ...

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Two People Exchanging Saliva
Two People Exchanging Saliva

In a society where kissing is punishable by death, and people pay for things by receiving slaps to t...

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Pieces of a Foreign Life
Pieces of a Foreign Life

Woman flees war-torn Syria, leaving family behind. Seeking asylum in Bordeaux, she meets French lawy...

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Shirin
Shirin

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectator...

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30 Bullets
30 Bullets

The true story of a public prosecutor, a journalist and a terror survivor who, against all odds, tak...

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The Trainer
The Trainer

Jack Flex is broke, buff, and wildly delusional—but he’s got a dream: to sell his absurd invention, ...

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Forough: Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season
Forough: Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

Forough Farrokhzad, rebel, misfit and feminist icon, fights to tell her story in a world not yet rea...

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Keep Her Quiet
Keep Her Quiet

Gülmira, a Uyghur journalist in Washington DC, risks everything to bring the disappearance of her pe...

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