Mohammad Reza Aslani

Writing·Dec 9, 1943·Rasht, Iran

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Mohammad Reza Aslani was born in Rasht, Iran, in 1943 and graduated in Art and painting from Teheran’s Faculty of decorative arts. He spent his filmmaking training in the Ministry of Culture. Aslani started his professional carrier in cinema in 1967 with the documentary film “Hasanlu Cup”, and then worked with another project “Child and exploitation (1982)”, a documentary made with the aim of display for management community. It was one of the best documentaries made in Iran in eighties. But shortly after its release it was informally banned and marginalized in 1982. Aslani’s first feature film called “The chess game of the Wind” (1976) was a new and different experience in Iranian cinema, which also was very daring. Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo began her artistic activity with this movie by playing the role of a servant. Aslani made television series like “Samak Ayyar,” “light mist,” “logic of the flight”, script writing for movies such as “line”, “switchman”, “The Silent City,” “bottleneck,” “Requiem”, “the fourth morning,” “Stone Garden”. He wrote three books of poetry, “Bench Nights and Wind Days,” “The difference between the two Maghreb” and “Requiem for prohibited years”. Teaching at academies of Sura and cinema and theater, writing critical essays and comments about cinema is among Aslani’s other activities. His professional activities are enumerated. —onlinefilmhome.dk

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The Dust of Light2024 · Director	Director
Frame2020 · Self	Self
A House as Wide as Awareness2018 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Hassanlou Cup: I Said to Contemplate This Dividing2014 · Director	Director
Tehran, A Conceptual Art2012 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Green Fire2008 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Memories of a 75-Year-Old Man2007 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Hands of Hegmataneh2002 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
A Season for Cinema: Visual insight in Iran; Cinema, Light, Truth1998 · self	self
Chigh1996 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Child and Exploitation1982 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Therefore Hangs a Tale1977 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Chess of the Wind1976 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
The Garden of Stones1976 · Writer	Writer
Tarikhaneh1975 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Strait1973 · Writer	Writer
The Morning of the Fourth Day1973 · Writer	Writer
Our Cultural Heritage1972 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
With Permission1971 · Director	Director
The Quail: The Tale of a Boy Who Asks1970 · Director	Director
Abu Rayhan Biruni1970 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Goodbye, Friend1970 · Writer	Writer
Jameh Mosque of Fahraj1968 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Hassanlou Cup: The Tale of the One Who Asks1964 · Director	Director
Karbala According to the Narration of Tarikh al-TabariWriter	Writer
Sadeh FestivalWriter	Writer