Born in 1968 in Tehran, Bijan Mirbagheri is a graduate in Photography from the School of Art. After making six short films, he won the Silver Leopard from the Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland/2005) for his debut feature film, WE ARE ALL FINE. His THIRD FLOOR also entered main competition of Warsaw Film Festival. In the big production of Majid Majidi’s MUHAMMAD, THE MESSENGER OF GOD, Mirbagheri rewrote the script and worked as second unit director.Bijan Mirbagheri has been a Director in some mo
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The Day Looms is about that Gripping drama focusing on the struggle of one couple, Forough and Jalal, to come to terms with their lives after the 1979 revolution. Hoping to escape the trauma of the past five years, which Forough spent as a political prisoner and Jalal spent in hiding from the security forces, they retreat to a quiet spot in the mountains to collect their thoughts and ponder the next move. Their past however catches up with them when they encounter an unassuming local who Forough suspects to be the man who routinely tortured her during her captivity. A dark examination of moral justification and the tempting prospect of vengeance. In this film Bijan Mirbagheri collaborates with Mehran Rajabi, Yekta Naser, Amir Aghaei, Dariush Farhang, Saeed Shahsavari, Mehdi Jafari, Arash Boroomand, Hossein Abolsedgh, Elham Salehi, Mojgan Eivazi, Keyvan Jahanshahi, Farhad Alizadeh Ahi.
Hell, Purgatory, Paradise is about that A house with three stories: The first story is about a separated couple who used to live together in an old house. Now they are sharing their memories. The second part is the story of a middle-aged university professor who finds a letter from his old flame while going out of the house and tries to find the writer. The third part tries to define a story of a painter's death and how his soul attempts to run with his wife who is still very much in love with him and is trying her best to carry out his testament. In this film Bijan Mirbagheri collaborates with Atila Pesyani, Mahtab Keramati, Masoud Rayegan, Parivash Nazarieh, Ali Mosaffa, Amir Aghaei, Morteza Poursamadi, Farhad Vilkiji, Saeed Shahsavari, Masoud Keramati, Rahim Noroozi, Elham Salehi, Zhaleh Shoari, Maryam Takhtkeshian, Keyvan Jahanshahi.
Bijan Mirbagheri has been a Editor in some movies:
The Unfinished Picture is about that Tooraj Rabbani and Amid Rashedi’s documentary explores the life works of acclaimed Iranian photographer Bahman Jaladi. More than just a retrospective of his work, the film provides a sense of the man behind the photographs as Jaladi talks about his life history with photography and the influence of left-wing politics on his style and content of his imagery. Edited together with images of his photos and scenes of day to day life, Jaladi discusses his work with refreshing earnestness, assessing its artistic merit, criticising images he’s unsatisfied with, and revealing the kind of photography he loves the most: what he calls ‘the unfinished picture.’ In this film Bijan Mirbagheri collaborates with Amid Rashedi, Tooraj Rabbani, Ali Montazeri.
Stolen is about that A famous actor and his fiancée are in the process of immigrating to another country. However, after his backpack is stolen, they postpone their trip. Together they try their best to resolve the different obstacles facing them. In this film Bijan Mirbagheri collaborates with Niki Karimi, Sorush Sehhat, Maral Farjad, Javad Norooz Beigi, Parviz Abnar, Ghazaleh Motamed, Mohsen Maleki, Roozbeh Bemani, Keyvan Motamedi, Hesam Manzour, Alireza Afkari, Masood Ashtari.
The Third Floor is about that By the call of a stranger the police come and intervene in a party in the fourth floor of a building. A girl escapes and trapped in a balcony of the third floor. A woman helps her but this is only the beginning of the troubles. In this film Bijan Mirbagheri collaborates with Mahnaz Afshar, Pegah Ahangarani, Morteza Poursamadi, Saeed Shahsavari, Mehrdad Ziaei, Elham Salehi, Alireza Ghasemkhan, Fazel Zhian, Keyvan Jahanshahi, Pasha Rostami, Behrang Shegarf, Masoud Sakhaei.
Standing Alone is about that Mohammad, a 12 year-old teenager, has written a short story that has won the first prize in the school's competition. The education department authorities have planned to award him 0n the day of a religious celebration. When his cousin doesn't go to his work, his father who had promised the shopkeeper asks Mohammad to fill his place that day; he accepts with one condition: to be able to go to the school's ceremony at 2 pm. But Mohammad can't get along with the arrogant, hypocrite shopkeeper and stands up against him. This means that his father loses his job. Mohammad has to hide away from his father and his anger towards him, thus missing the school ceremony. But this act of him makes his father confident again against his arrogant employer. In this film Bijan Mirbagheri collaborates with Reza Fayyazi, Gholam Reza Ramezani, Touraj Aslani, Hossein Mahjoob, Ali Samadpour, Vahid Ziraki, Vahid Zendenam.
We Are All Fine is about that Jamshid, the elder son of Abbas Sakhaei's family, lives abroad for eight years. His wife, Vida, and his daughter, Shiva, have been living all these years with the family waiting for him to return. One day a young man called Kamran makes a phone call and gives a message from Jamshid whom they have not seen for years. Each of them has some image of him in their minds which differs as seen from a father's, mother's, sister's, brother's or wife's point of view. Maybe none of these images will match the real person. Omid, the youngest son of the family who is now spending his military service, decides to make a film and sends it to Jamshid via Kamran. Omid rents a camera and tries to make a video regarding the family and their situation. During the time Omid is filming the family, some events and arguments take place but each of the members appears in front of the camera irrespective of the problems and issues they have. When Omid goes to Kamran to send the video to Jamshid, he has already left the country. In this film Bijan Mirbagheri collaborates with Ahoo Kheradmand, Mohsen Ghazi Moradi, Parviz Shahinkhou, Farhad Vilkiji, Mohammad Reza Takhtkeshian, Saeed Shahsavari, Mehdi Jafari, Abbas Rastegarpour, Ali Abedini, Hamidreza Sadri, Leila Zareh, Aida Keykhaie.
Other films are:
The Catcher in the Love, A Name, Soleyman, Natoor, Skimmer
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