Mahmoud Kalari

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Mahmoud Kalari was born on April 31, 1951 in Tehran, Iran. 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 became employed by 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 and taught photojournalism at Tehran University as a guest professor.Kalari started his film career in 1984 as the cinematographer of Jadehay sard (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. To mention a few: Sorb (1989) (winner of the best cinematography), Reyhaneh (1990) (screened at San Sebastian and Montreal Film Festivals), Nobat e Asheghi (1995) (filmed in Turkey and screened at Cannes Film Festival), "From Karkheh to Rein" (1990) (filmed in Germany and screened at Hamburg and Mannheim Film Festivals), Sara (1993) (screened at San Sebastian, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago Film Festivals) Salaam Cinema (1995) (screened at Montreal, 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 (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), Der Wind wird uns tragen (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 Berlin, New York, and AFI Film Festivals).Kalari directorial debut is Abr-O Aftaab (1998) on which he was also the writer and cinematographer. It was screened at Montreal and Chicago Film Festivals and won the Best Film award at Argentina Mardel Plata Film Festival.Kalari was selected as a Jury Panelist for Poland Film Festival both in 1999 and 2000. In 2001, Nant Festival in Paris held a tribute to his work as a photographer and exhibited his photographs. In 2005 he won the best cinematography award for Bab'Aziz - Der Prinz, der seine Seele betrachtete (2005), directed by Tunisian-French director Nacer Khemir, from the Tatarstan International Muslim Film Festival. Later, a gallery of his photos shot during the Iranian Revolution of 1979 was opened to the public, and a photo book of his work from that era was published. Kalari's work on the internationally critically acclaimed and Oscar winner film, Nader und Simin - eine Trennung (2011), earned him a Silver Frog from Plus CAMEIMAGE International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography in 2011.He has brought the vision of many great Iranian directors to life, such as Masud Kimiai, Ali Hatami, Dariush Mehrjui, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Tahmineh Milani, Palme d'Or winner Abbas Kiarostami, Oscar nominee Majid Majidi, and Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi. Kalari has had workshops in different cities of Iran and teaches cinematography as he continues to shoot. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

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Releases by Year

Mahmoud Kalari on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1985 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Mahmoud Kalari movies released per year from 2009 till 2021.

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Mahmoud Kalari works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 59% of Mahmoud Kalari movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Mahmoud Kalari worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Mahmoud Kalari has worked on is 6.1.

6.1 / 10

Mahmoud Kalari's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

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.

8.3/10123 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

A semi-autobiographical account of Makmahlbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.

7.8/1078 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Drama,Mystery
The Past (2013)

An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.

7.7/10130 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

The story of a blind dervish 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.

7.5/1096 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Drama,Family,Romance
Leila (1997)

Leila and Reza meet in a kind of celebration and fall for each other. Having discovered their love, they get married soon only to find out the infertility of Leila. That's when Reza's ...

7.5/10102 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

7.4/10118 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Sport
Offside (2006)

Struggle of Women in a country that excludes them from entering the stadiums.

7.3/1093 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant...

6.9/1096 min

Available in 5 platform(s).