Pegah Ahangarani is an 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...

ian actress. She is the daughter of actress and director Manijeh Hekmat

Manijeh Hekmat

Manijeh Hekmat is an Iranian film director. Born in 1962 in Arāk, Iran, she has worked since 1980 as an assistant director and production designer in over 25 films. She directed her first feature film Women's Prison in 2002. This film has been shown at over 80 international film festivals and has...

 and movie director Jamshid Ahangarani. She has acted in 11 Iranian feature films since 2001 and made at least one documentary.

• The Singing Cat (1991 - Directed by Kambozia Partoyi)
• The Girl in Sneakers (1999 - Directed by Rasul Sadr Ameli
  Rasul Sadr Ameli
  Rasool Sadr Ameli is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer.He made his directorial debut, The Liberation in 1982 after a decade of working in journalism. In nearly all his films, he is fascinated by family melodrama. His The Chrysanthemums , was one of the top grossing films of...
  
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• Women's Prison (2001 - Directed by Manijeh Hekmat
  Manijeh Hekmat
  Manijeh Hekmat is an Iranian film director. Born in 1962 in Arāk, Iran, she has worked since 1980 as an assistant director and production designer in over 25 films. She directed her first feature film Women's Prison in 2002. This film has been shown at over 80 international film festivals and has...
  
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• Our Days (2002 - Directed by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad)
• Maxx (2005 - Directed by Saman Moghadam)
• Sweet Jam (2006 - Directed by Arezoo Petrossian)
• 3 Women (2008 - Directed by Manijeh Hekmat
  Manijeh Hekmat
  Manijeh Hekmat is an Iranian film director. Born in 1962 in Arāk, Iran, she has worked since 1980 as an assistant director and production designer in over 25 films. She directed her first feature film Women's Prison in 2002. This film has been shown at over 80 international film festivals and has...
  
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• Shirin
  Shirin (film)
  Shirin is a 2008 film directed by master Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. The film is considered by some critics as a notable twist in the artistic career of Kiarostami....
  
  (2008 - Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
  Abbas Kiarostami
  Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries...
  
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• Maritime silk road
  Maritime silk road (film)
  The Maritime Silk Road is an Iranian movie will release on 2010, about a man called Soleiman Siraf who, according to historical documents, was the first sailor to cross the Indian Ocean to China. His route was then called the maritime Silk Road and many merchants took that route to get their...
  
  (2010 - Directed by Mohammad Bozorgnia)
• Vorood-e-Aghayan Mamnoo (2011 - Directed by Rambod Javan)

• Best Actress Award, for The Girl in Sneakers, 23rd Cairo International Film Festival
  Cairo International Film Festival
  The Cairo International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Cairo, Egypt. It was established in 1976 and was the first international film festival held in the Arab world...
  
  , Egypt
  Egypt
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  , December 1999
• Best Performance Award, for The Girl in Sneakers, 14th Isfahan International Film and Video Festival for Children and Young Adults, Iran, October 1999

Ahangarani was arrested on 27 July 2009 in the wake of the turmoil after the 2009 presidential election, allegedly for her work in support of opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
She was later released but arrested again on 10 July 2011 prior to her planned trip to Germany to report on the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup for the Farsi service of the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle or DW, is Germany's international broadcaster. The service is aimed at the overseas market. It broadcasts news and information on shortwave, Internet and satellite radio on 98.7 DZFE in 30 languages . It has a satellite television service , that is available in four languages, and...

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