Esmael Barari

Esmael Barari
اسماعیل براری
Born	(1965-10-26) 26 October 1965 (age 56) Bandar Anzali, Iran
Occupation	Film director producer
Years active	1988–present

Esmael Barari (Persian: اسماعیل براری); (born 1965), is an Iranian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, film editor and film producer. He is director of [1] and a member of and a member of international jury of -2007 [2]^{[permanent dead link]}.^[1]

Film career[]

Esmael Barari graduated in filmmaking from . In 1988, his short film, REACTION, won top prize at the first National Students Film Festival of Tehran and the silver plaque at the 1989 . His other short films are NADER'S GIFT (1989) and LONELINESS AND THE CLOD (1990) which was presented in FIPA Cannes-91 and received The Golden Butterfly for the Best Film at 5th . Up to now he has made more than twenty feature, documentary and short films & TV series. His younger brother, Ahmad Barari, is a professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) in Canada.

Cinematic style[]

Barari is part of a generation of filmmakers in the , a Persian cinema movement that started in the 1980s and includes pioneering directors such as Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Amir Naderi, Abolfazl Jalili, Jafar Panahi, Bahman Ghobadi, Rakhshan Bani-E'temad and Majid Majidi. The filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues with documentary style narrative films. Barari's works are influenced by documentary filmmaker Morteza Avini and narrative film director Abbas Kiarostami, Who has a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary style narrative films, for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras. He is also known for his use of contemporary Iranian poetry in the dialogue, titles, and themes of his films. "Barari is the unvarnished offspring of Kiarostami and Hitchcock!"^[2][3]

Filmography[]

• (1991)
• The Nest (1992,Banned)
• The Green Hell (1996)
• (2000)
• (2004,Banned)
• (2007)
• (2005/2011,Banned/Disbanded)
• (2011)

Festivals and awards[]

1988[]

• REACTION (short film)

- 1st National Students Film Festival, Tehran; won the top prize

- Fajr Film Festival, Tehran

1989[]

• REACTION (short film)

- , Austria; won the silver plaque

1991[]

• LONELINESS AND THE CLOD (short film)

- , Tehran; Won The Golden Butterfly for the Best Film

- , France

• City in the Hands of Children

- Fajr Film Festival, Tehran

1992[]

• City in the Hands of Children

- , Isfahan

• The Nest

- Fajr Film Festival, Tehran

1996[]

• The Green Hell

- Fajr Film Festival

2000[]

• The Devil's Dance

- Fajr Film Festival

2004[]

• Dead Heat under the Shrubs

- 7th Brooklyn Int'l Film Festival, USA-New York

- , USA-Hawaii

- 12th Raindance Film Festival, UK

- 6th Panorama, Greece-Thessaloniki

- 49th Valladolid Int'l Film Festival, Spain; Winner of Audience Award Best Film^[4]

- 7th Rehoboth Beach Independent film Festival, USA-Delaware

- , USA

- 4th Anchorage Film Festival, USA-Alaska

- , USA

2005[]

• Dead Heat under the Shrubs

- , Cuba-Gibara

- Indianapolis International Film Festival, USA

2006[]

• Dead Heat under the Shrubs

- Int'l Fest. of Muslim Cinema"Golden Minbar", Russia-Kazan

2007[]

• Dead Heat under the Shrubs

- 9th Mumbai International Film Festival, India

• Day of Rain

- Roosta Film Festival, Tehran; Won the Golden Plaque for the best film

- , Hamedan; Mentioned for religious content

- , Tehran; Won the Khademin QurF an Medal

- 25th International environmental film festival, Paris^[5]

- , Tehran/Nov.2007

References[]

External links[]

• Esmael Barari at IMDb
• World Iranian Film Center Official Website

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