Kiumars Pourahmad

Kiumars Pourahmad (Persian: کیومرث پوراحمد ‎) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, film editor and film producer. He was born in 1949 in Nadjaf Abad, Iran.

Career

Pourahmad started his career as a film critic and assistant director in a TV series in early 1970s. He made his directorial debut, Tatureh in 1983 after making some short films. Children and young adults with their problems are the central characters in most of his films. Recently, Pourahmad has shown^{[citation needed]} a tendency toward mass audience and box office and his latest film, The Yalda Night, was a self-expression. Pourahmad recently published his autobiography, Unfinished Childhood.

Selected filmography

• Swallow My Tree, 1985
• The Harbour, 1988
• The Quiet Hunt, 1989
• The Shame
• The Morning After, 1992
• Bread and Poem, 1993
• The Strange Sisters, 1995
• The Yalda Night, 2001
• The Night Bus, 2007

External links

• Kiumars Pourahmad at the Internet Movie Database
• Photograph of Kiumars Pourahmad, Āftāb, Friday 9 February 2007