Kiumars Pourahmad is an Iranian film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

, film editor and film producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

. He was born in 1949 in Nadjaf Abad, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

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Career

Pourahmad started his career as a film critic and assistant director in a TV series in early 1970s. He made his directorial debut, Tatureh in 1983 after making some short films. Children and young adults with their problems are the central characters in most of his films. Recently, Pourahmad has shown a tendency toward mass audience and box office and his latest film, The Yalda Night, was a self-expression. Pourahmad recently published his autobiography, Unfinished Childhood.

Selected filmography

• Swallow My Tree, 1985
• The Harbour, 1988
• The Quiet Hunt, 1989
• The Shame
• The Morning After, 1992
• Bread and Poem, 1993
• The Strange Sisters, 1995
• The Yalda Night, 2001
• The Night Bus
  The Night Bus (film)
  The Night Bus is the name of an Iranian motion picture directed by Kiumars Pourahmad. It was made in 2006 and released in 2007.The film, which is in sharp monochrome, relates the story of a twenty-four-hour-long journey of two young Iranian soldiers and a civilian driver transporting...
  
  , 2007

External links

• Photograph of Kiumars Pourahmad, Āftāb, Friday 9 February 2007