Person
Mania Akbari
Directing · Born 1974-09-22 · Tehran, Iran
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mania Akbari is an Iranian film director. Akbari began her artistic career as a painter in 1991. She entered the world of cinema as a director of photography and later as an assistant director of documentaries. In 2002, she starred in Abbas Kiarostami’s Ten and in 2003 co-directed the documentary Crystal. In 2005 she wrote, directed and starred in her first feature film, 20 Fingers, winner of a prize at the Venice Film Festival digital film competition. In 2007, Akbari directed a sequel to Kiarostami's Ten entitled 10+4 (Dah Be Alaveh Chahar) in which she depicts her battle with cancer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mania Akbari, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Dear Elnaz
Director
One. Two. One
Director
Dancing Mania
Self
Three Ways of Returning
2026
20 Fingers
The Wife
Ten
Driver
10 + 4 (Dah be alaveh chahar)
herself
How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish
Director
In My Country Men Have Breasts
self
A Moon for My Father
Herself
Filmography
- 2026Three Ways of Returning
- 2022How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish WishDirector
- 2020Dear ElnazDirector
- 2019A Moon for My FatherHerself
- 2014Life May BeSelf
- 2013From Tehran to LondonRoya
- 2012Dancing ManiaSelf
- 2012In My Country Men Have Breastsself
- 2011One. Two. OneDirector
- 200710 + 4 (Dah be alaveh chahar)herself
- 2005Cinema IranSelf
- 200420 FingersThe Wife
- 2002TenDriver
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