Mahmoud Kalari

Mahmoud Kalari Persian محمود کلاری born in Tehran is an Iranian cinematographer screenwriter film director and photographer who has worked with number of renowned Iranian directors such as Abbas Kiarostami Jafar Panahi Asghar Farhadi and Mohsen Makhmalbaf After completing photography courses in the United States he held his first photo exhibition titled Visit with People Around Us at Tehran University in 1976 A few years later he was employed by the Parisbased Sigma Photo News Agency and worked for them for four years In 1980 he was ranked one of the 15 Best Photographers of the Year by Time Magazine and his photos could be seen in French German and American magazines Kalari moved back to Iran and from 1982 to 1984 worked as the supervisor of the Tehran National TV Photography Unit Kalari started his film career in 1984 as the cinematographer of Jadehay sard1 1985 Frosty Roads for which he won the Best Cinematography award at Tehrans Fajr International Film Festival He has shot more than 65 films since then including some of the most critically acclaimed and talked about movies in Iran and internationally Among those are Sorb2 1988 winner of the best cinematography Reyhaneh3 1995 screened at San Sebastián International Film Festival Time of Love 1990 filmed in Turkey and screened at the Cannes Film Festival From Karkheh to Rein 1990 filmed in Germany and screened at the Hamburg and Mannheim Film Festivals Sara 1992 screened at the San Sebastián New York City Los Angeles and Chicago Film Festivals Salaam Cinema 1995 screened at the Montréal Toronto Los Angeles New York and Cannes Film Festivals Gabbeh 1996 screened at Cannes Montreal Toronto Vancouver New York Los Angeles and 21 other International Film Festivals around the world winner of Best Cinematography at Fajr International Film Festival and winner of Fujifilm Motion Picture Award Leila 1997 screened at 7 international film festivals and the winner of the best cinematography at Fajr Film Festival Derakhte Golabi4 1998 winner of Silver Hugo at Chicago Film Festival and chosen as the Best Motion Picture Photography by the international jury of the Fajr Film Festival The Wind Will Carry Us 1999 for which Kalari received nominations for Best Cinematography in the Main Competition of Plus CAMEIMAGE International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography and Offside 2006 screened at the Berlin New York and AFI Film Festivals Kalaris directorial debut was AbeO Aftaab 1997 on which he was also the writer and cinematographer It was screened at the Montreal and Chicago Film Festivals and won the Best Film award at Argentinas Mardel Plata Film Festival