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Mania Akbari

Film Director / Actor / Writer / Screenwriter | * 09/22/1974 (49) | Tehran (Iran)
Mania Akbari (Persian: مانيا اکبری, born 1974) is an Iranian filmmaker, artist, writer, and curator whose works explore women's rights, marriage, sexual identity, disease and body image. Her style, in contrast to the long tradition of melodrama in Iranian cinema, is rooted in the visual arts and autobiography. Because of the taboo themes frankly discussed in her films and her opposition to censorship, she is considered one of the most controversial filmmakers in Iran. From 2007 to 2010, Akbari worked on numerous photography-based works that were featured in various galleries around the world, while she kept making documentary and fiction films until 2011, when during production of her film, From Tehran to London, members of her crew were arrested by Iranian authorities for filming without official permission. Scared she too might be imprisoned, Akbari fled Tehran for London. Since settling in London, various international retrospectives of Akbari's films have drawn attention to her cinema, among which retrospectives at the BFI, the Oldenburg International Film Festival and the Danish Film Institute are the most notable. Mania Akbari founded the online art platform Cryptofiction in... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Drama | TV Movies

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Movies with Mania Akbari as Actress(7)

as herself2019 A Moon for My Father
as herself2005 Cinema Iran
as The Wife2004 20 Fingers
as Driver2002 Ten

Movies with Mania Akbari as Crew(20)

Camera/Director of Photography2022 How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish
Directing/Director2020 Dear Elnaz
Editing/Editor2020 Dear Elnaz
Directing/Director2019 A Moon for My Father
Writing/Writer2019 A Moon for My Father
Directing/Director2014 Life May Be
Directing/Director2013 From Tehran to London
Production/Producer2013 From Tehran to London
Directing/Director2012 In My Country Men Have Breasts
Directing/Director2011 One. Two. One
Production/Executive Producer2011 One. Two. One
Writing/Writer2011 One. Two. One
Directing/Director2007 10 + 4 (Dah be alaveh chahar)
Directing/Director2004 20 Fingers
Writing/Writer2004 20 Fingers
Directing/Director2002 Ten

Citizenship: Iran
Born: Sunday, 09/22 1974 (September) in Tehran (Iran) (current age: 49 years + 188 days)
Zodiac sign: Virgo (Chinese zodiac sign: Tiger)
Languages: Persian (FA)
Children: Amina Maher
Mania Akbari frequently works together with these people:
Abbas Kiarostami (4x, Crew)
Amina Maher (4x, Crew)
Bijan Daneshmand (3x, Actor)
Mark Cousins (3x, Crew)
Alireza Alavian (3x, Crew)
Douglas White (3x, Crew)
Mahmoud Kalari (2x, Crew)
Touraj Aslani (2x, Crew)
Neda Amiri (2x, Cast)
Rouzbeh Akhbari (2x, Crew)
Omid Djalili (1x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:962191, Added: 11/24/2018, Last updated: 03/23/2024