The actress Bita Farahi ( بيتا فرهی ) was born on 21 March 1958 in Tehran. Prior to her film career, Bita Farahii studied at the John Powers School in the US and then worked as a model for art magazines in California. Bita Farahi's first appearance on screen was in the supporting role in 'Hamoun' (1990) by the highly respected Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui. The film won multiple awards at the Fajr Film Festival. Bita's characters are usually intelligent and independent women with domestic and
... psychological adversity. Bita Farahi played the leading role in Banoo (1999).Bita Farahi has been a Actor in some movies:
Kimia is about that In the 1980s, Reza finds his beloved Iran engulfed by war with Iraq. Though he has a child on the way, he decides to do his duty and join in the fight to defend his country. While he is away, his wife dies in childbirth, and Reza himself is captured as a prisoner of war. A woman named Shokooh finds the child, now ostensibly an orphan, and raises her as her own. Years later, Reza returns home determined to find his daughter and take up the mantle of the father she has never known. In this film Bita Farahi collaborates with Khosrow Shakibai, Reza Kianian, Mahmoud Kalari, Haroun Yashayaei, Ahmad Reza Darvish, Jahangir Mirshekari, Abbas Ganjavi, Abdollah Eskandari, Ahmad Pejman, Mahmoud Reza Sani, Zohreh Safavi, Behrouz Moavenian, Rahman Moghaddam, Asghar Shahverdi, Nader Rajab Pour, Zahra Oveisi, Seyed Abbas Mousavi, Parisa shahandeh, Foad Najafzadeh.
Hamoun is about that The middle class Hamid Hamoun has been married to painter Mahshid for seven years. However, Mahshid is becoming increasingly frustrated with their existence, and feels that Hamid is somehow holding her back from her true creativity. When she asks for a divorce, Hamid struggles to come to terms with it, in addition to his battle to complete his PhD. In a series of dream sequences that resemble the work of Fellini, Hamid tries to piece together what went wrong. Hailed as Dariush Mehrjui’s greatest masterpiece since ‘The Cow,’ this compelling film utilises subtle humor to tell the story of one man’s heartbreaking loss. In this film Bita Farahi collaborates with Ezzatolah Entezami, Khosrow Shakibai, Sedigheh Kianfar, Turan Mehrzad, Jalal Moghadam, Sima Tirandaz, Fathali Oveisi, Hossein Sarshar, Asadollah Yekta, Dariush Mehrjui, Haroun Yashayaei, Abdollah Eskandari, Touraj Mansouri, Naser Cheshmazar, Hassan Hassandoust, Ahmad Salehi, Asghar Shahverdi, Zhila Mehrjui, Amrollah Saberi, Faryar Javaherian, Khachik Babaian, Farhad Khanmohammadi, Anik Shefrazian, Reza Mohajer.
Parkway is about that Directed by Fereydoun Jeyrani, and starring Bita Farahi and Mohamed Reza Sharifinia, 'Parkway' is an exhilarating and sensual cinematic experience set in Tehran. Part horror, part thriller, the film chronicles the energetic tribulations of young couple, Noushin and Kouhyar. On the run from the law, they travel across busy urban spaces and dart through tight twisting backstreets to evade capture. In this film Bita Farahi collaborates with Anahita Nemati, Niousha Zeighami, Rana Azadivar, Nima Shahrokh Shahi, Maedeh Tahmasebi, Mehdi Ahmadi, Mohammad Reza Sharifinia, Rahele Mirzaiee, Jamshid shah mohammadi, Fereydoun Jeyrani, Gholamreza Mousavi, Aria Aziminejad, Bahram Dehghan, Faraj Heidari, Ali Asghar Tabasi, Asghar Shahverdi, Zhila Mehrjui, Ali Kazemi, Mohammad Foghani.
Mainline is about that Picking up from her highly successful 'Under the Skin of the City', the mother of Iranian cinema Rakshan Bani-Etemad returns to her artistic city Tehran to document the plight of its drug dependent population. Narrating the spiralling relationship between a mother and her addict daughter, we are presented with all faces of poverty and desperation, as the drugs put an emotional and financial strain on the family. Adopting hand-held camera work, Bani-Etemad continues her realist visual style in this gritty study of urban life. In this film Bita Farahi collaborates with Bahram Radan, Baran Kosari, Masoud Rayegan, Mahmoud Kalari, Rakhshan Banietemad, Mohsen Abdolvahab, Jahangir Kosari, Yadollah Najafi, Farid Mostafavi, Mohammad Reza Delpak, Sepideh Abdolvahab, Mehrdad Mirkiani, Naghmeh Samini, Zhila Mehrjui, Farid Valizadeh, Mitra Mahaseni.
Lady is about that Maryam is a kind-hearted but melancholy woman whose life is turned upside down when she discovers that her husband Mahmud is having an affair with another woman. Despondent, Maryam remains behind in their mansion when Mahmud leaves for a long business trip, and in desperate need of attention, offers shelter to her poor neighbour and his pregnant wife. Taking advantage of her generous nature, her new guests slowly destroy the once beautiful house, leaving Maryam to pick up the pieces of her life. A tragic but touching story about trust, betrayal and the steady erosion of a woman's relationship and soul. In this film Bita Farahi collaborates with Ezzatolah Entezami, Hamideh Kheirabadi, Khosrow Shakibai, Ferdous Kaviani, Jalal Moghadam, Gohar Kheirandish, Sima Tirandaz, Fathali Oveisi, Mahmoud Kalari, Mir Salah Hosseini, Dariush Mehrjui, Majid Modaresi, Jahangir Mirshekari, Abdollah Eskandari, Naser Cheshmazar, Hassan Hassandoust, Mohammad Mehdi Dadgo, Ali Allahyari, Asghar Shahverdi, Zhila Mehrjui, Faryar Javaherian.
Protest is about that When Amir learns that the woman who is to marry his younger brother Reza has been having an affair with another man, he does what he believes is the only thing that can restore his family's honor. Stoically accepting a twelve-year prison sentence for the crime, Amir is released to discover that the country he once knew is now a very different place, in which matters of honor killing are considered barbaric. In need of money to support his brother in his future marriage prospects, Amir starts working as a debt collector for fellow ex-con Mohsen as he tries to adjust to the new Iran and makes amends for his past mistakes. Directed by Massoud Kimiayi, one of the few filmmakers from the country's pre-revolutionary period to remain active in the film industry, 'Protest' is a fascinating story about a man out of time struggling to acquaint himself with the climactic changes of the Iranian revolution... In this film Bita Farahi collaborates with Mehdi Fathi, Mitra Hajjar, Mohammad Reza Foroutan, Parsa Pirouzfar, Shila Khodadad, Kianoosh Gerami, Akbar Moazezi, Dariush Arjmand, Poulad Kimiayi, Masoud Kimiai, Seyyed Zia Hashemi, Asghar Rafiejam, Eshagh Khanzadi, Majid Entezami, Hesam Navab Safavi, Pari Amir Hamzeh, Rambod Shekarabi, Ramin Parchami, Mohammad Reza Ghomi, Mohammadreza Mouyini, Hossein Ghata, Mohammad Aligholizadeh, Armin Ghobadi Pasha, Soosan Salimi, Ali Kangarloo, Javad Gholami, Amir Shervan, Reza Razavi, Behrooz Piroozian, Mohsen Ghaffari, Hossein Farzaneh, Rasool Heydari.
Annunciation to a Third Milennium Citizen is about that A few high school girls die mysteriously. A seminary instructor tries to uncover the truth about their death, but gets involved in some problems. In this film Bita Farahi collaborates with Niki Karimi, Hengameh Ghaziani, Mehdi Ahmadi, Hamid Farrokhnejad, Khatereh Asadi, Mohammad Hadi Karimi, Ali Ladoni, Amir Hossein Arman, Saed Soheili, Ebrahim Ghafouri, Yalda Jebelli, Farrokh Nemati, Fardin Khalatbari, Alireza Alavian, Shahrzad Kamal Zadeh, Alireza Khorshid, Milad Kazazi.
Other films are:
Shirin, My Brother Khosrow, Time to Love, A House on Water, Six and Five, Familiar Territory, Cardboard Hotel, When I Came Back, Gohar Kheirandish a Filmography, Waiting for a Miracle, La Minor, The Life, Memento, A Time in Eternity, Scratch, Mehrjui Karnameh 40 Saleh, Principal Agreement, Doubt, The Mix
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