Mania Akbari

Mania Akbari

Birthday: 1974-09-22

Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mania Akbari is an Iranian film director. Akbari began her artistic career as a painter in 1991. She entered the world of cinema as a director of photography and later as an assistant director of documentaries. In 2002, she starred in Abbas Kiarostami’s Ten and in 2003 co-directed the documentary Crystal. In 2005 she wrote, directed and starred in her first feature film, 20 Fingers, winner of a prize at the Venice Film Festival digital film competition. In 2007, Akbari directed a sequel to Kiarostami's Ten entitled 10+4 (Dah Be Alaveh Chahar) in which she depicts her battle with cancer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mania Akbari, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Movies

Ten
Ten

A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various...

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20 Fingers
20 Fingers

The subject of the film is male-female relationships. Composed of 7 vignettes, "20 Fingers" features...

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In My Country Men Have Breasts
In My Country Men Have Breasts

Akbari was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and she lost her breasts due to the cancer. After sh...

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A Moon for My Father
A Moon for My Father

Mania Akbari collaborates with British sculptor Douglas White to coin a tender fusion of langauge, w...

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10 + 4 (Dah be alaveh chahar)
10 + 4 (Dah be alaveh chahar)

After casting painter and video artist Mania Akbari as the central figure of his groundbreaking Ten ...

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From Tehran to London
From Tehran to London

Mania Akbari’s From Tehran to London (2012), has a Russian-doll structure. It begins with Akbari sho...

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Cinema Iran
Cinema Iran

Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers....

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Dancing Mania
Dancing Mania

A short documentary on the latest film by Mania Akbari titled, From Tehran to London. The film takes...

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Life May Be
Life May Be

An epistolary feature film: a cinematic discourse between a British director Mark Cousins, and an Ir...

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Three Ways of Returning
Three Ways of Returning

Three attempts at reconnecting with often traumatic pasts, all leading to flights from home and the ...

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