Parviz Kimiavi
Know for: Directing
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Place of birth: Tehran, Iran
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The Mongols (1973)
A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an...
Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux! (1982)
In this film that sends up the foibles of filmmaking, a standard crew of actors, stage-hands, director, writers, producers, and others are gathered...
Image Latent (2013)
"Image Latent" explores the life of Parviz Kimiavi, a key yet underappreciated figure in Iran’s avant-garde and New Wave cinema. The film...
Concerning Nice (1995)
Anthology of short films about the French city of Nice, by various directors. A homage to Jean Vigo and his "À propos de Nice" from 1930.
The Hills of Qaytariyeh (1969)
A strange and mischievous documentary on an archeological site in the Qaytarieh hills in Tehran. This short narrates the story of the dead people who...
The Last Whisky (1963)
Parviz Kimiavi's student film, a short silent Western
Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses (2016)
An examination of the work and lives of actresses in the Iranian film industry prior to the 1979 revolution, featuring myriad interviews and rare...
A Season for Cinema: The documentary vision (1998)
The final part of the 14-part documentary series which discovers cultural roots and aesthetics of modern Iranian films and the relationship between...
P for Pelican (1972)
An old hermit lives in a slum and wants to teach the alphabet to the children who regularly go there to play. When a child proposes he use the word...
The Mongols (1973)
A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an...
The Mongols (1973)
A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an...
The Mongols (1973)
A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an...
The Garden of Stones (1976)
Secrets and mysteries lose power when they are spread too widely. This is what the villagers discover when they invade an old man's vision-inspired...
O.K. Mister (1979)
In a remote village in the "land of roses and nightingales" one day surfaces a stranger: William Knox D'Arcy. To enact his plan for exploiting the...
Iran Is My Land (1999)
Sohrab, a provincial young writer, is lost in the desert on the way to Tehran to get a publication license for his book on old Persian poetry, but...
P for Pelican (1972)
An old hermit lives in a slum and wants to teach the alphabet to the children who regularly go there to play. When a child proposes he use the word...
Oh, Protector of the Gazelle (1970)
The film which was shelved for many years focuses on men and women visiting the shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Shiite Imam, in the city of Mashhad...
The Old Man and his Garden of Stones (2004)
30 years after their first encounter, Kimiavi goes to find Dervish Khan Esfandiarpur again to witness the persistency of his ‘surreal’...
Oh, Protector of the Gazelle (1970)
The film which was shelved for many years focuses on men and women visiting the shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Shiite Imam, in the city of Mashhad...
Concerning Nice (1995)
Anthology of short films about the French city of Nice, by various directors. A homage to Jean Vigo and his "À propos de Nice" from 1930.
The Hills of Qaytariyeh (1969)
A strange and mischievous documentary on an archeological site in the Qaytarieh hills in Tehran. This short narrates the story of the dead people who...
Iran Is My Land (1999)
Sohrab, a provincial young writer, is lost in the desert on the way to Tehran to get a publication license for his book on old Persian poetry, but...
The Last Whisky (1963)
Parviz Kimiavi's student film, a short silent Western
The Garden of Stones (1976)
Secrets and mysteries lose power when they are spread too widely. This is what the villagers discover when they invade an old man's vision-inspired...
Shiraz 70 (1970)
A short documentary about the 4th Shiraz Arts Festival and its series of performances that took place in September 1970.