List of Iranian film directors

This is a list of Iranian film directors representing various genres and periods of Iranian cinema.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

A

• Narges Abyar
• Saber Abar
• Ali Abbasi
• Mostafa Abdollahi
• Mohammad Ahmadi
• Mania Akbari
• Shahram Alidi
• Reza Allamehzadeh
• Cyrus Alvand
• Mohsen Amiryoussefi
• Kiarash Anvari
• Abolfazl Attar
• Reza Attaran
• Kianoush Ayari

B

• Reza Badiyi
• Maziar Bahari
• Ramin Bahrani
• Parisa Bakhtavar
• Rakhshan Bani-E'temad
• Bahram Bayzai
• Marzieh Boroumand
• Shiva Boloorian

C

• Henri Charr

D

• Hajir Darioush
• Masoud Dehnamaki
• Pouran Derakhshandeh

E

• Nader Ebrahimi
• Tanaz Eshaghian
• Matt Eskandari

F

• Mitra Farahani
• Asghar Farhadi
• Bahman Farmanara
• Mohammad Farokhmanesh
• Hamid Farrokhnezhad
• Forough Farrokhzad
• Aryana Farshad
• Sepideh Farsi
• Hassan Fathi
• Reza Fazeli
• Sadaf Foroughi

G

• Kamran Ghadakchian
• Iraj Ghaderi
• Shahyar Ghanbari
• Tina Gharavi
• Behrouz Gharibpour
• Regis Ghezelbash
• Bahman Ghobadi
• Fereydun Gole
• Ebrahim Golestan

H

• Mani Haghighi
• Hassan Hajgozar
• Ali Hatami
• Ebrahim Hatamikia
• Manijeh Hekmat
• Mohammad-Reza Honarmand
• Robert Hossein
• Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour
• Hassan Hajgozar

J

• Masoud Jafari Jozani
• Abolfazl Jalili
• Rambod Javan
• Mehdi Jafari
• Vahid Jalilvand
• Nima Javidi

K

• Sara Khaki
• Abdolreza Kahani
• Narges Kalhor
• Fariborz Kamkari
• Cyrus Kar
• Varuzh Karim-Masihi
• Niki Karimi
• Nosrat Karimi
• Maryam Keshavarz
• Samuel Khachikian
• Valiollah Khakdan
• Loghman Khaledi
• Abbas Kiarostami
• Bahman Kiarostami
• Masoud Kimiai
• Parviz Kimiavi
• Alexis Kouros
• Esmail Koushan
• Sadegh Karamyar
• Mohammad Kart

L

• Ali Limonadi
• Gholamhussein Lotfi

M

• Reza Mirkarimi
• Majid Majidi
• Hana Makhmalbaf
• Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• Samira Makhmalbaf
• Yassamin Maleknasr
• Asghar Massombagi
• Dariush Mehrjui
• Marzieh Meshkini
• Tahmineh Milani
• Maziar Miri
• Mehran Modiri
• Mahnaz Mohammadi
• Shahram Mokri
• Granaz Moussavi
• Rasoul Mollagholipour
• Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh
• Ali Mosaffa
• Bahman Motamedian
• Duraid Munajim
• Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian

N

• Amir Naderi
• Shirin Neshat
• Parviz Nouri
• Mohammad Nourizad
• Hossein Nuri

O

• Ovanes Ohanian

P

• Jafar Panahi
• Kambuzia Partovi
• Babak Payami
• Rafi Pitts
• Kiumars Poorahmad
• Ali Pourtash
• Tina Pakravan

R

• Hossein Rajabian
• Iraj Raminfar
• Rouzbeh Rashidi
• Amir Shahab Razavian
• Shahla Riahi
• Jamil Rostami
• Mohammad Rasoulof
• Saeed Roustayi

S

• Hamid Samandarian
• Houman Seyyedi
• Hossein Shahabi
• Parviz Shahbazi
• Sohrab Shahid-Saless
• Javad Shamaqdari
• Siamak Shayeghi
• Kamran Shirdel
• Mohammad Shirvani
• Khosrow Sinai
• Afsaneh Salari
• Behrouz Sebt Rasoul

T

• Kamal Tabrizi
• Nasser Taghvaei
• Hamid Tamjidi
• Susan Taslimi
• Farkhondeh Torabi

Y

• Hassan Yektapanah

Z

• Mona Zandi Haghighi

See also

• Iranian cinema
• Persian theatre
• List of Iranian cinematographers
• List of Iranian films

External links

• Film International. Iranian Film Quarterly
• Iranian Film directors on IMDb
• Kiarostami and Makhmalbaf among The world's 40 best directors
• Women of Iranian Popular Cinema
• Nantes festival director calls Iranian cinema one of world’s best
• Faces. Short biographies of some Iranian actors and film directors, Film International